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I spent a month with hundreds of local volunteers tracking ICE across Pittsburgh @CasaSanJosePGH. Constantly, they traverse city neighborhoods, gather in church basements and empty parking lots, and respond in real time to sightings, arrests and raids. https://t.co/gG6fPYrHHC

As midnight struck last night, about 10 students rolled a wooden fence in the glow of a red stoplight to Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh campus. They wheeled the fence to the CMU president’s office & rammed the pieces together with the butt of a pickaxe.

Our 2025 @photoville exhibit ‘Hollowed Out’ captures the gas extraction industry’s hidden toll on families. Grantee @QuinnGlabicki chronicles locals who abandoned their homes due to pollution and water contamination in our exhibit at @bbpnyc. 👉 https://t.co/WnfYgW6ZTr

New: @QuinnGlabicki and I spent some time with Ahmad, whose family was one of the last to resettle as refugees in Pittsburgh before Trump took office and suspended admissions His family has hope for the future but faces huge uncertainty. Read their story:

Does Pittsburgh have enough labor — from doctoral candidates to electricians — to meet the green energy demands of the future? “Well, the answer is no." @QuinnGlabicki and Alice Crow continue Pittsburgh at Work

Pittsburgh-based fracking giant EQT approaches 2025 with a sunny political forecast. Will an ongoing EPA investigation drift away? Will a class-action lawsuit cloud the skies? @QuinnGlabicki scans the horizon

Since 2021, EQT has spent $2.6M lobbying for natural gas, including the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia. EQT's recent acquisition of the pipeline has made it a vertically-integrated firm. @QuinnGlabicki for @PublicSourcePA.

EQT's CEO Toby Rice is a public advocate for the gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale, leveraging his position at EQT to sway politicians and pursue policy to build a “Shalennial” vision of American energy.

This is the latest in our series EQT’s Gas Play. The project is supported by @pulitzercenter. Many thanks to the great editors and fact checkers and colleagues who made this possible. https://t.co/GzXb65mifA

For people in places like Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, unleashed LNG exports could upset the equation that has long included airborne emissions and water contamination on one side, and cheap, homegrown energy on the other.

If the GOP embrace of Trump’s campaign trail mantra: “Drill, baby drill!” translates into a profitable win for Rice, it might not be one for American consumers. There is mounting concern that Rice’s vision of “unleashed” LNG would mean for American energy bills.

“What he’s typically not going to be emphasizing — unless he’s talking just to his investors — is [that] by promoting LNG exports and gas expansion, ‘I am going to get filthy, stinking rich,’” Slocum said.

Rice has cast LNG as a global savior: a geopolitical wedge countering Putin’s aggression and the influence of “petro-dictators”, lifting people who “use wood and dung as a primary source of energy” from energy poverty, and addressing climate change by replacing coal abroad.

Since 2021, EQT has spent more than $2.6 million lobbying Congress and federal government branches to support LNG interests, lobbying reports show.

He’s invested his own cash to build influence in D.C. Last year through August, Rice personally donated nearly $238,000 to federal campaigns or political action committees, including $56,200 in support of Dave McCormick in the PA senate.

“He is evangelical about natural gas,” said Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a D.C. corporate accountability group. “He ascribes almost supernatural powers to natural gas. I’m waiting for him to say that it can ward off COVID and evil spirits.”

Toby Rice backed winners in the Senate. He hobnobbed with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He has become one of the most influential fossil fuel executives in America. Now, his “Shalennial” vision to vastly expand American gas exports is ever closer to reality. https://t.co/H3IbCRmu70

A cat named "Skye" looks on from a polling booth on election day in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. More photos of the week: https://t.co/1sSX6tGNHa 📷 Quinn Glabicki

State Senate update: With 85% of the vote in, (R) Devlin Robinson leads (D) Nicole Ruscitto, 52.5% to 47.5%. With 75% of the vote in, (D) Nick Pisciottano leads (R) Jen Dintini, 54.4% to 45.6%. Neither has been called by the AP yet.