25. A SPECIAL AGENT
In a 2009 cable later released by WikiLeaks: To read more about the Obama administration’s efforts to help export fracking technology, read Mariah Blake’s work for Mother Jones, as well as the original State Department cables from WikiLeaks at https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE111742_a.html.
27. THE RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR AND PURE WATER
“The measure of our progress is not just what we have but how we live”: In his landmark decision, Chief Justice Castille quoted extensively from a speech given by Herbert Fineman. Fineman was Speaker of the House in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1971 when the amendment passed almost unanimously.
33. FAIR 2016
“big houses”: Terry Bossert of Range Resources apologized for his comments about not placing gas wells near “big houses.” He left Range Resources shortly afterward for a Pittsburgh law firm, where he counsels oil and gas producers on navigating regulations and compliance. The former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge defended Bossert in the Post-Gazette, saying, “Terry made a mistake for which he has publicly apologized. It would be a disservice to his decades of good work to allow one ill-advised comment to distract from what has been an exemplary career of service to our commonwealth.”
“When you finally see in its full flower how corrupt the world of the DEP actually is, it’s nauseating”: John Quigley, the former secretary for the DEP, fired from his job by Governor Tom Wolf in 2016, left state government for academia. He’s currently a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Extraction isn’t only a matter of resources; it relates to stories. Without the generosity of Harley, Stacey, Paige, Beth, John, Ashley, Grace, and Buzz, along with their patience and willingness to welcome me into their homes over six difficult years, this book wouldn’t exist.
I am also obliged to the people of Washington County. To name only several, Shelly Pellen, Linda and Larry Hillberry, Alice and Park Burroughs, Veronica Coptis, Ray Day, Rick Baker, Jason Clark, Bill “Willard” Mankey, and the late Bill Hartley—along with countless others—were generous, open, and fair, and for that I am grateful. In Allegheny County and beyond, I’m grateful for the wisdom and hospitality of Amy Weiss, along with Greg Scott, Lisa Orr, Luke Lozier, and Dorothy Bassett.
Kendra and John Smith allowed me to follow their work and their lives as they built not one but four complex cases. I thank them, along with Dakota, Sienna, and Ainsley, for sparing even more of their parents’ time and attention.
Behind these pages, there are also the remarkable individuals whose professional support was invaluable. All books are collaborative efforts, but none more so than this one. I am humbled by the singular enthusiasm and fierce attention of Tina Bennett, of WME. The editorial superpowers of Alex Star at FSG have honed a complex series of legal cases into far more than the sum of its disparate parts. Also at FSG, the faith and encouragement of my mentor and friend Jonathan Galassi have carried me through some very dark days. I am also indebted to the fabulousness of Jeff Seroy, the legal prowess of Henry Kaufman, the diligence of Dominique Lear, and the raptor eye of Lenni Wolff. There are so many others who have been generous to this work, including Emily Stokes, Nick Trautwein, and David Remnick at The New Yorker and Sheila Glaser and Kathy Ryan at The New York Times Magazine.
For investigative research, there is no one more dogged than Kelsey Kudak, who brought both brains and heart to the project, along with Heather Radke and Max Siegelbaum. I am also thankful for the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, Harvard Divinity School, and Stanford University’s McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, which introduced the book to early and expert readers.
The support and guidance of the following friends demands a resounding and unending thank-you: Larissa MacFarquhar, Katy Lederer, Amy Waldman, Suzie Kondi, Michele Conlin, and Robert Hammond. I have also benefited from the support of a host of colleagues and experts, including Carolyn Kissane, Terry Engelder, Ed Morse, Jon Hurdle, Leif Werner, Neela Banerjee, Don Hopey, Marie Cusick, Rose Reilly, Seamus McGraw, Myron Arnowitt, and Joel Tarr. There are also those who can’t be named: thank you for your courage in speaking to me.
For my family, Phoebe and Frank Griswold, Hannah, Louisa, and Georgina, I owe you gratitude and many, many dinners. The same goes for my wonderful new family, Susan, Paul, Ally, Rory, Emma, John, Max, Katie, and Sarah. To Robert, for enduring those endless hours in your car seat on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
And to Steve, thank you for reading Frog and Toad more times than any human being should withstand, and for our life, which is more than I dared to hope for.
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Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women’s folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has held fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University, and in 2010 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Rome Prize for her poems. Currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, she lives in New York with her husband and son. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
MAPS
A NOTE
PROLOGUE
PART I. HOOPIES
1 | FAIR 2010
2 | WHEN THE BOOM BEGAN
3 | THE MESS NEXT DOOR
4 | ARSENIP
5 | AIRBORNE
6 | HOOPIES
7 | “ONE HEAD & ONE HEART, & LIVE IN TRUE FRIENDSHIP & AMITY AS ONE PEOPLE”
8 | DOUBTERS
9 | HANG ’EM HIGH
10 | BLOOD AND URINE
11 | AIRPORT
PART II. BURDEN OF PROOF
12 | “MR. AND MRS. ATTICUS FINCH”
13 | MUTUAL DISTRUST
14 | BUZZ
15 | MISSING PAGES
16 | RAINBOW WATER
17 | “DEAR MR. PRESIDENT”
18 | INSURGENTS
19 | BURDEN OF PROOF
20 | POLICING THE STATE
21 | WHAT MONEY DOES
22 | RUIN IS THE DESTINATION TOWARD WHICH ALL MEN RUSH
23 | REMOTE PEOPLE
24 | IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKERS
25 | A SPECIAL AGENT
26 | FULL METAL JACKET
PART III. THE RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR AND PURE WATER
27 | THE RIGHT TO CLEAN AIR AND PURE WATER
28 | DREAMS
29 | CLOSING DOWN THE PONDS
30 | CHASING GHOSTS
31 | “THE JUNKYARD PLAINTIFF”
32 | DIVA
33 | FAIR 2016
EPILOGUE: WHITE HATS
POSTSCRIPT
A NOTE ON SOURCES
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ALSO BY ELIZA GRISWOLD
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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