The Latest: Gas driller to appeal $4.24 million verdict

Houston-based based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. said Thursday the jury's verdict "disregards overwhelming scientific and factual evidence" that it conducted itself properly in the small village of Dimock.

State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking combustible methane into Dimock's groundwater.

State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking combustible methane into Dimock's groundwater.

The rural community became a national battleground in environmental activists' fight against fracking, and its plight was featured in the Emmy-winning 2010 documentary "Gasland."