Radioactive cows in Pennsylvania?! While Pennsylvania’s quickly-growing natural gas industry (thanks to fracking shale … really) clearly has some economic benefits for the state, the effects on the environment shouldn’t be ignored, based on this video from Time Magazine. Among the highlights/lowlights: A couple whose retirement home was essentially ruined by the natural gas industry, a farm with quarantined radioactive cows, and a woman with flammable tap water.