Roughly 70 percent of Pennsylvania sits atop the Marcellus Shale formation with an estimated 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas worth about $500 billion. The oil and gas industry wants to earn millions of dollars more by extracting the natural gas by the quickest method possible. Thousands of gallons of local-source freshwater are needed in the process. The contaminated wastewater then needs to be discarded and currently there are no rules on how that should be done.

We need to tell Ron Schwartz, the Director of the Department of Environmental Protection's Southwest Region, that he must be accountable to the citizens of southeastern Pennsylvania and protect our drinking water sources.

Please send a message to Director Schwartz today. Feel free to use your own words or to use the sample message we've provided.