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Reid R. Frazier is a freelance writer in Pittsburgh and The Marcellus Shale reporter for The Allegheny Front. His science writing and reporting has aired on NPR and in several newspapers and magazines. He is the recipient of the 2011 Carnegie Science Award for reporting and analysis.
Reid R. Frazier has won a Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters' award for excellence for "Public colleges, private money." The story was done in collaboration with PublicSource and was broadcast on the Allegheny Front on Essential Public Radio.
George “Sonny” Markish stood in his yard with a TV reporter in April 2013 and pointed to a towering hill next to his house in LaBelle, Fayette County.
The camera zoomed in on Markish, with slicked-back gray hair, swiping his hand across a window sill coated in a dusty substance.
“When I come out here my eyes begin to water,” he told the Christian Broadcasting Network reporter. “I can taste foul things, and I see dust that is coming from the dump.”
