"Fracking Pennsylvania": New Book Recounts History of the Northeast's Shale Rush

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By Sharon KellyJun 9, 2014, 4:44 pm72 pts
Walter Brasch begins his new book, Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster, by explaining in the introduction that he never intended to write an anti-fracking book. “But,” he writes “as I accumulated mounds of evidence, I realized that fracking, even under the best of conditions, is a problem.”…

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