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Pennsylvania Town Saved by Fracking Fears Biden Will Kill Its Prosperity

Pennsylvania Town Saved by Fracking Fears Biden Will Kill Its Prosperity
A fracking site in New Milford, Pa., on Jan. 17, 2013. Richard Drew/AP Photo
Salena Zito
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CANONSBURG, Penn.—Thirty years ago, Jason Capps was a young man with ambition, but when he looked around his hometown of Canonsburg—located near Pittsburgh—all he saw were opportunities slipping away. The coal mines where his father worked were dying, and the glass, steel, and manufacturing industries were on their last legs.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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