Dimock

$Environmentalists and Dimock Township residents announce the opening of the Dimock Environmental Research Center on Aug. 16, 2024. It will research the effects of fracking in the area. Pennsylvania American Water Company announced it completed the first steps to build a pipeline to bring clean water to affected residents on Mar. 12, 2025.$

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Pennsylvania American Water Company: Dimock Twp. residents will have drinkable water by 2026

Isabela Weiss | WVIA News | Report for America

Dimock Township’s residents haven’t had clean water in 14 years. Pennsylvania American Water Company says it has finished the first steps towards a new pipeline.
$Victoria Switzer says Coterra Energy, once Cabot Oil & Gas, is fracking again under her home in Dimock, Pennsylvania. She blames Gov. Josh Shapiro for allowing the state's Department of Environmental Protection to lift a moratorium on fracking in 2022.$

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WVIA NEWS RECAP: Fracking in NEPA and on the campaign trail

Sarah Scinto | WVIA News

As Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump spar over fracking on the campaign trail, residents of Dimock, a rural community in Susquehanna County, are feeling forgotten even as they continue to take action against fracking pollution in their region.While the candidates hammer each other on their fracking stances, WVIA’s Isabela Weiss has been spending time with the residents of Dimock.
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Fracking still stains Dimock as candidates spar over gas drilling

Isabela Weiss | WVIA News | Report for America

Susquehanna County environmental activists hope new environmental research center will controversial technology's future use