Reid Frazier
Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets.
Reid is currently contributing to StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration among The Allegheny Front, WESA, WITF and WHYY covering the Commonwealth's energy economy.
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A new report from an environmental group has found that oil and gas companies have spread millions of gallons of drilling waste on Pennsylvania roads in the last few years, despite a 2018 moratorium on the practice from the DEP. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports. -
Internationally-traded plastics have the carbon footprint of a mid-sized European country. That’s the conclusion of a new study from the University of Pittsburgh. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.
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A natural gas company is pleading no contest to criminal charges that it misreported emissions numbers at a Washington County pipeline site. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports the charges stem from an attorney general’s office investigation.
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Documents that are part of a lawsuit against U.S. Steel show corroded machine parts and deteriorating conditions at the Clairton Coke Works led to a catastrophic fire in 2018 that knocked out the plant’s pollution controls for over three months. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.
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President Biden has repeatedly promised the shift to clean energy will create "good-paying union jobs." But the wind and solar industries generally pay less, are not unionized, and need fewer people.
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For a decade, growing American gas production has fueled a petrochemical boom. There are big plans for more plants in Appalachia, but the pandemic — and an oversupply of plastics — may crush them.
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Coal use has plummeted in part because it's more expensive than natural gas or renewable energy. Mines are shutting down, and some power plants may run out of places to stockpile coal.
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Climate change has become a key issue in the Democratic primaries, but voters are split in the swing state of Pennsylvania — where the fracking boom has boosted the economy.
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America is now the world's biggest exporter of ethane, a part of natural gas that's a building block for making plastics. That's helping fuel the fast-growing global plastics industry.
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The Environmental Protection Agency would give coal plants more time to close unlined coal ash ponds, and ease rules on wastewater. Opponents say that prolongs the risk of toxic spills.
