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State Agencies Are on the Front Lines of Environmental Protection
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Will Their Work Survive the Pandemic? This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. About a week after Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a statewide shutdown, a journalist and activist in the western part of the state obtained video that appeared to show a large nearby storage tank leaking reddish-brown fracking wastewater. Melissa Troutman, who co-founded a local muckraking publication and also works for the environmental nonprofit Earthworks, knew that fracking waste could be radioactive and toxic, so she filed a complaint with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Within a...