SCRANTON, Pa.
(AP) — A federal jury has awarded two couples nearly
$4.25 million after finding one of the largest natural gas drillers in
Pennsylvania
polluted their well water.
The verdict Thursday comes at the end of a bitter and long-running federal lawsuit pitting homeowners in the village of
Dimock
against
Houston
-based
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.
Dimock
was the scene of the most highly publicized case of methane contamination to emerge from the early days of
Pennsylvania's
natural-gas drilling boom. State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking combustible methane into
Dimock's
groundwater. Cabot claimed the methane was naturally occurring.
The rural community became a national battleground in environmental activists' fight against fracking, and its plight was featured in the Emmy-winning 2010 documentary "Gasland."
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