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Pulitzer Center Update April 15, 2025

Fracking Investigation Wins Science Journalism Award

Country:

United states
Author:
English

Project

EQT's Gas Play

The realities of gas extraction hit home for Appalachian communities.

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A long exposure photograph shows EQT’s Sizemore Well Pad in Knob Fork, West Virginia, on February 17, 2024. The Sizemore Well Pad rests near the homes of four families who abandoned their properties after experiencing three years of ongoing illness consistent with exposure to chemical compounds released by EQT’s hydraulic fracturing operations. Image by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource. United States.

PublicSource investigated fracking operations connected to West Virginia families’ degrading health and water quality.

EQT’s Gas Play—a series illuminating the health impacts of fracking in nearby rural communities, by Pulitzer Center grantee Quinn Glabicki—was honored with the 2025 Victor K. McElheny Award for local and regional science journalism.

The multimedia project follows the families displaced by the gas company's failure to protect residents while being completely aware of fracking's destructive impact despite public claims of the contrary.

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