The Department of Environmental Protection and driller EQT are still investigating what happened. People who live nearby are calling it a ‘frac-out’ and are concerned about their water.
Allegheny County Council has upheld a ban on new fracking for natural gas in county parks.
The poll included more than 400 people statewide and has a margin of error of 5.5 percent.
Anti-fracking groups say some aspects of the industry can’t be effectively regulated.
The authors said they didn’t know what aspect of the fracking process was to blame.
Pennsylvania gas wells produced about 7.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in 2020 — the largest volume of natural gas ever produced in the state in a single year.
Leachate is tested for dozens of potential pollutants. But until now, landfills haven’t had to test it for radium, a radioactive material common in oil and gas waste.
The DEP says production topped 7 trillion cubic feet in 2020.
