PressConnects: Pa. families win $4.24M verdict against Dimock

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PressConnects: Pa. families win $4.24M verdict against Dimock

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>> http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/pennsylvania/2016/03/10/pa-families-win-verdict-dimock/81586206/ <http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/pennsylvania/2016/03/10/pa-families-win-verdict-dimock/81586206/>
>> Pa. families win $4.24M verdict against Dimock
>> Associated Press12:41 p.m. EST March 10, 2016
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>> SCRANTON, Pa. — 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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