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Pittsburgh-based EQT is the nation's largest natural gas producer with an ever-growing Appalachian footprint. 

It expanded its operations in the West Virginia village of Knob Fork in 2021. Four neighboring families in the hamlet pleaded for help from state environmental regulators as health concerns mounted. The state deferred to EQT, but now the federal EPA is investigating. Nonetheless, the families fled the hollow, abandoning their homes.
This is the first story in PublicSource's latest series, EQT's Gas Play, which examines the natural gas producer and its impact on those in its fracking path. 

Reporter Quinn Glabicki immersed himself in the lives of three of the four families as he chronicled the environmental effects and health concerns that followed EQT’s expansion of activities in the heart of the gas company’s fracking zone.

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How Pittsburgh-based EQT’s expansion in West Virginia set four families reeling, while state regulators trusted the company to answer their complaints.

This series is supported by the Pulitzer Center and Report for America.
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