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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Colin Jerolmack, a professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. Jerolmack recently published \u201cUp to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town\u201d\u2014a book that Raimi insists is one of the best on the shale revolution that\u2019s been written to date. Jerolmack lived for several months in a rural Pennsylvania county that had been experiencing the shale revolution; he documented what residents experienced over a span of eight years. The result is a thoughtful, nuanced, and human portrait of how shale development has affected one community\u2014for better and for worse.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cUp to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town\u201d by Colin Jerolmack; https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179032/up-to-heaven-and-down-to-hell\n\n\u201cNot in Your Backyard! Organizational Structure, Partisanship, and the Mobilization of Nonbeneficiary Constituents against \u201cFracking\u201d in Illinois, 2013\u20132014\u201d by Fedor A. Dokshin and Amanda Buday; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118783476\n\n\u201cThey Couldn\u2019t Drink Their Water. And Still, They Stayed Quiet.\u201d by Colin Jerolmack; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/opinion/sunday/fracking-pennsylvania-water-contamination.html\n\n\u201cThis Is Chance! The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together\u201d by Jon Mooallem; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565952/this-is-chance-by-jon-mooallem/\n\n\u201cScene on Radio\u201d Season 5, \u201cThe Repair,\u201d with hosts John Biewen and Amy Westervelt; https://www.sceneonradio.org/the-repair/