Energy Updates

In early 2019, CNX’s Shaw 1G well suffered a complication that ultimately ended its operation. Last week, the state Department of...

Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline is, yet again, the cause of a major environmental incident. The 350-mile long pipeline project is being...

In a move both praised and criticized by the natural gas industry, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has lifted existing...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection levied a $310,000 fine against Canonsburg-based CNX Gas Company (CNX) and its...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro began his term with the oil and gas industry in his sights. Since taking office in 2017, AG...

Contributed by Senior Student Research Fellow Grace Kovalan When it comes to unconventional oil and gas production, transparency is key....

A former X-ray technician pleaded guilty this week in federal court in Pittsburgh to falsifying documents certifying welds on the Mariner...

Range Resources pleaded no contest last week to criminal charges that it was negligent in its oversight of two gas well sites in...

Public comments are being received on a modified air quality plan for a proposed combined-cycle, natural gas power plant in Washington...

A recent study analyzed correlations between the size of a drilling company and compliance with environmental regulations and found that...

Natural gas operators in Pennsylvania are emitting more than 15 times the amount of methane than they reported to the state Department of...

Contributed by: Grace Kovalan, Student Research Fellow In recent years, there has been an extreme increase in the number of horizontally...

Range Resources has agreed to pay a civil penalty of almost $200,000 to resolve air quality violations at two Washington County well...

CNX has agreed to make $180,000 worth of improvements to the streambank and fish habitats along Mingo Creek in Mingo Creek County Park in...

Plans to build a second ethane cracker plant in the Appalachian Basin continue to inch forward as the companies partnering on the project...

A Pennsylvania’s regulatory agency took the unusual step of revoking a permit it had issued for an injection well to dispose of fracking...

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, federal and Pennsylvania regulatory agencies have closed offices and are scaling back...

The Mariner East pipeline project, already the subject of large civil penalties and state and federal investigations into possible...

Companies involved in the shale gas industry in Pennsylvania are under the microscope of several state and federal agencies. The industry...

Energy Transfer Partners will pay a $30.6 million civil penalty imposed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in...