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Pittsburgh's EQT has become a prominent voice arguing that the gas it extracts from the Marcellus Shale and ships around the world as liquified natural gas can be a key solution to the world’s warming crisis.

Scientists say that’s dangerously false.

This is the second story in EQT's Gas Play, a PublicSource series supported by The Pulitzer Center and Report for America. Environment reporter Quinn Glabicki writes on how EQT pledges to tackle climate change and flexes its political muscles while communities in its frack path face stark realities.

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