Nov 19, 2025 7:30pm: Science Confirms Fracking’s Pollution Webinar with Dr. John Stolz

Is fracking polluting our water? Well, there's pretty damning evidence that it is.Sign up to attend our webinar to hear from Dr. John Stolz who will share his findings in about how our groundwater and aquifers are getting fracked.bit.ly/FrackingPollutesPAWed, Nov 19, 7:30pm

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Is fracking polluting our water? Well, there’s pretty damning evidence that it is. Sign up to attend our webinar to hear from Dr. John Stolz who will share his findings in about how our groundwater and aquifers are getting fracked.

bit.ly/FrackingPollutesPA

Wed, Nov 19, 7:30pm

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Science Confirms Fracking’s Pollution
Join the Webinar with Dr. John Stolz to Learn from this New Study!
Wednesday, November 19, 7:30 pm

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Fracking for natural gas and its operations have ruined Pennsylvania’s environment and the health of Pennsylvanians. This is especially true in the Commonwealth’s Shale regions, where myriad pathways of pollution have had substantial adverse impacts.

But the industry and those who back it still deny this truth, despite the hundreds of reports confirming the details. Now there is a newly released study that incontrovertibly proves the direct connection between fracking pollution and the water people drink.

Dr. John Stolz of Duquesne University will share the findings of he and his colleagues’ research into the contamination of groundwater aquifers and drinking water following a well incident called a “frac-out” that occurred in New Freeport, PA in 2022. The weight of the evidence proving that fracking operations can and do pollute our water just got a lot heavier!

We’ll also hear from Dr. Stolz hot-off-the-press news of a new pollution incident caused by one of Pennsylvania’s most prolific and infamous drillers.

PLEASE JOIN US BY REGISTERING HERE. This is a free on-line webinar presented by Delaware Riverkeeper Network.

John Stolz is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and

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John Stolz is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Science at Duquesne University. He has a BS degree from Fordham University and a PhD from Boston University. He was an NRC Postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His main research interests are in the microbial metabolism of metals (i.e., arsenic, selenium) and water quality impacts of unconventional shale gas extraction. He is a AAAS Fellow and recipient of the Dewey Award from Clean Water Action. Dr. Stolz has published 107 journal articles, 48 book chapters, and author-edited three books.

Refer also to:

2025: New Study: EQT’s 2022 Frac Out contaminated drinking water with oil and gas brine and methane in New Freeport PA. Six hundred (yes 600!) frac harmed residents asked the frac’er to provide alternate safe water, “EQT refused.” And, because industry-owned politicians see frac’ing as God and toxic drinking water and sickened citizens as saintly sacrifices, “state law limits drillers’ responsibility, residents have few options” even though “post-frack-out water chemistry clearly shows ‘through the presence of methane and other light hydrocarbons, that people no longer have potable water.’” For the year of the frac out, EQT reported operating revenues of $7.5B.

2006: My water after Encana directly repeatedly frac’d the aquifers that supply my community:

Photo by Colin Smith