County, public kept in the dark about major Pennsylvania methane leak

By ​Michael Rubinkam and Michael Biesecker

Michael Rubinkam, reporter, Allentown, and Michael Biesecker, environmental reporter, Washington, for reporting exclusively that an energy company had failed to notify county emergency officials of a massive methane leak in northeastern Pennsylvania. Rubinkam worked from an environmental accident log entry that Biesecker spotted while on Hurricane Harvey duty. http://bit.ly/2yopugf