David Hess, Longtime Pennsylvania Environmental Official Turned Blogger, Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

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As secretary of environmental protection, Hess flipped the switch on Pennsylvania’s first commercial wind farm and helped avert a catastrophe at Quecreek mine. Now, his blog is essential reading for lawmakers, executives and activists on either side of the state’s fracking divide.

By Jake Bolster

In July 2002, 18 miners working at the Quecreek mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, entered a chamber 240 feet below ground and accidentally broke through the wall of an abandoned, flooded mine, unleashing millions of gallons of trapped water. 

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