Ambient Air Monitoring Program
Over the years, Range Resources has, and continues to, incorporate leading sustainability practices and engineering solutions into our operations. We take great pride in our progress towards our sustainability goals, pioneering innovations that have helped shape new standards for shale development. We are the first company to voluntarily disclose our fracturing fluid, and to achieve 100 percent recycling of reuse water, among many other industry-leading best practices that we seek to continually enhance.
Our commitment to sustainability and transparency also involves providing air quality data and more broadly, public health transparency. We understand the value of providing the public with data to help better understand modern shale gas development.
Since 2017, Range has collected, analyzed, and published air monitoring data on our website or with specific Townships. This process has tracked air quality through all of our stages of development and production.
Sun Mine Well Site, Fawn Township (Allegheny County)
Our commitment continues today in sharing air quality data at our active Sun Mine well site in Fawn Township, Allegheny County. The monitoring at the Sun Mine well site uses state-of-the-art technology and is being conducted in accordance with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protocols by a third party, Clean Air Engineering.
In total, there are seven monitors collecting data at this well site. The monitors are located on all four cardinal directions and in consideration of local wind direction and topography and will collect the data for the following constituents:
- Particulate matter (PM2.5)
- BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene)
- Meteorological data such as wind speed and direction as well as temperature, humidity and barometric pressures.
This web page will serve as a host to the interactive data, which will be updated on a regular basis, so please continue to check back here for new data and information.