Editing Duryea, Pennsylvania (section)

===Early 21st century===
The [[Reading Blue Mountain and Northern|Reading & Northern Railroad Company]] invested in [[Duryea Yard]] (or Muller yard) in late 2009 and early 2010, laying track to accommodate 100 new rail cars and constructing a facility to store and hold up to 800 cars of sand to be used in [[hydraulic fracturing]], or "fracking," operations at [[Marcellus Formation|Marcellus Shale]] drill sites throughout northeastern Pennsylvania. There is a sand quarry operating just north of the borough limits along a line once traversed by rails leaving the yard during its heyday.<ref>
[https://www.timesleader.com/news/hottopics/shale/Old_Duryea_railroad_yard_taking_on_new_life_03-26-2010.html Old Duryea railroad yard taking on new life]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [www.timesleader.com timesleader.com], 26 March 2010, accessdate: 30 August 2013.</ref>

In September 2011, [[Hurricane Irene]] and [[Tropical Storm Lee (2011)|Tropical Storm Lee]] caused severe flooding in the borough. It destroyed many homes and businesses along the Lackawanna River in Duryea, stretching from Phoenix Street to Elm Street. In the following days, [[U.S. Vice President|Vice President]] [[Joe Biden]] and [[U.S. Senator]] [[Bob Casey Jr.|Bob Casey]] visited the devastated sections of Duryea.

Also in 2011, the borough received national attention for its role in the landmark Supreme Court case ''[[Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri]]'', in which the court stated that "a government employer's allegedly retaliatory actions against an employee do not give rise to liability under the Petition Clause unless the employee's petition relates to a matter of public concern."