First Place: EQT's Gas Play

A narrative picture story based on daily coverage of a general or breaking news event that is of primary interest to the local audience in a media organization or the photographer’s primary geographic market. In other words, a hometown story. 10 photographs maximum per story.

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May 11, 2024

Michael Durdevich stands beneath a water tank installed by EQT contractors at his home on the outskirts of New Freeport, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 2024. Residents of New Freeport, including Durdevich, reported water contamination, red painful rashes and chemical odors after an EQT hydraulic fracturing accident in 2022.

Quinn Glabicki / PublicSource

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