Marcellus Shale

In 2007, Terry Engelder, a professor of geosciences at Penn State, calculated that trillions of cubic feet of natural gas could be recovered from the…

Nobody wants methane in their water.“They saw when it gets to about 28 milligrams per liter, it could start degassing to a point where it could explode,”…

Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and photojournalist Steven Rubin spent five years documenting Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania. The project became…

This story began with a simple task: Let’s make a pipeline map!Everyone wants to know where all the new Marcellus Shale gas pipelines are or will be. The…

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State University, and an accomplished poet. She took a sabbatical last year to…

Many people are concerned with the environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale Drilling. A group of high school teachers from State College are learning how…

At the very back of the Riverdale Mobile Home Park, farthest from the busy road out front, Deb Eck stands in front of her trailer. It’s perched on a bank…

Marcellus shale drilling across Pennsylvania has expanded tremendously in the last couple of years. To extract the natural gas, companies drill straight…