Photos of the day

Patricia Farnielli holds a sample of water during a news conference in Dimock, Pa. on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 which she said Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. trucks had spilled on roads. Like her neighbors in this rural community 15 miles south of the New York border, Farnelli signed a lease with a major natural gas driller to explore a potentially lucrative formation beneath her land. Now Farnelli and others are plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. polluted their wells with methane gas and other contaminants, destroying the value of their homes and threatening their health. (AP Photo/Scranton Times & Tribune , Michael J. Mullen)