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Reid Frazier

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Reid R. Frazier is a writer and radio producer. His work has aired on NPR, Marketplace, Burn: An Energy Journal, and other places. He’s written for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Quarterly and other magazines. He is an energy and environment producer for Pittsburgh public radio show, The Allegheny Front.He was a reporter at the North Jersey Herald & News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Vermont.He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Marijke, and their daughters Anya and Ruby.
Kenton Ganster, left, stands with his mother, Kathleen, with a drilling rig used for fracking visible in the background off of the Rachel Carson Trail north of Pittsburgh.
Environment
Drilling rigs used in fracking found along nature trail irk some hikers
Solar workers
Environment
Solar jobs now outnumber coal jobs in the US
Trump coal supporter
Conflict
Coal country is pinning its hopes on Trump
Mobile methane sensors
Environment
Scientists and industry are both working to find and stop dangerous methane leaks
A gas flare burns at a fracking site in rural Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Environment
Falling natural gas prices are bad news for some US communities
Coal in West Virginia
Environment
In the US, the cost of illnesses triggered by air pollution is falling
Coal efuse pile
Environment
The decline of coal means less money to clean up coal mining’s toxic past
Homer City plant
Environment
US coal plants are preparing to comply with new EPA rules
Margie Richard stands in what used to be her front yard, across the street from Shell's chemical plant in Norco, Louisiana. Richard pushed for the company to buy out the neighborhood and move residents.
Environment
How one woman fought one of the world’s biggest oil companies — and won
How One Woman Took On Shell To Save Her Town
Sediment from a stream bed containing fracking wastewater (jars on the left) developed orange residues after 90 days; sediment from a clean stream bed (jar on the right) did not.
Environment
As fracking booms, waste spills rise — and so do arsenic levels in groundwater
Arsenic Released in Frackwater Spills
Water treatment tub in PA
Environment
Can fracking solve the problem of polluted mine water in Pennsylvania?
Fracking in PA
Environment
Fracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it’s not a clear cut case
Pennsylvania's Complicated Groundwater Contamination
Petrochemical Boom on the Gulf Coast
The Fight to Save Old Logger’s Path
Is Fracking Making People Sick?