CEPM

Center for Energy Policy and Management at

Washington & Jefferson College

Energy Updates

Jun 20

Natural Gas Impact Fees Drop in 2023

About $100 million less in natural gas impact fees will be distributed to municipalities and state programs in Pennsylvania this year...

Oct 14, 2021

Pa. Unveils State Climate Action Plan

The Wolf Administration has set climate change in its sights and is preparing to combat the issue. The plan of attack was disclosed in...

Sep 9, 2021

PA Independent Regulatory Review Commission Votes to Approve RGGI

Governor Tom Wolf’s plan to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has successfully passed through a major regulatory hurdle....

Sep 2, 2021

Pa. Forms Consortium to Increase Energy Storage

An energy storage consortium is being formed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to help lead the advancement of...

Aug 12, 2021

Pa. Supreme Court: State Forest Gas Lease Money Must Be Used For Conservation

The state Supreme Court recently ruled that the Pennsylvania legislature’s diversion of millions of dollars received from oil and gas...

Jul 29, 2021

PA PUC Opens Rulemaking Process for Long-Awaited Pipeline Regulations

Two years after Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission announced plans to review and possibly update regulations on natural gas...

Jul 15, 2021

Pa. Takes Key Step Toward Joining RGGI

Pennsylvania moved one step closer to joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, after the state Environmental Quality Board this...

Jun 17, 2021

Impact Fee Payments Fall Due to Low Prices, Less Drilling

Counties and municipalities in Southwestern Pennsylvania and across the state will be looking carefully at their budgets as the state...

Apr 2, 2021

PA Supreme Court Rules Against AG in Natural Gas Leasing and Royalty Case

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two natural gas drilling companies, finding that the attorney general cannot use...

Feb 25, 2021

Governor Asked to Revoke Permit for Allegheny County Injection Well

A coalition of environmental groups is asking the Pennsylvania governor to revoke a permit for an underground injection well in Plum,...

Jan 14, 2021

Natural Gas Impact Fee Revenue Falls 28 Percent

Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania will see lower natural gas impact fee payments in 2021, the state Independent Fiscal...

Nov 12, 2020

PA Opens Public Comment Period on Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Pennsylvania is poised to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). More than a year since Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf...

Nov 5, 2020

Gas Well at Allegheny County Steel Mill Faces Zoning Setback

A proposal to put an unconventional gas well on the site of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Allegheny County illustrates how residents...

Sep 3, 2020

Study Analyzes Public Trust of Government on Energy Issues

Contributed by: Student Research Fellow Grace Kovalan As the production of oil and gas (UOG) in the United States continues to grow,...

Jul 16, 2020

Natural Gas Impact Fee Payments Expected to Drop To New Low in 2020

Counties and municipalities in Pennsylvania saw a drop of about 20 percent in the Act 13 impact fee payments they receive from natural...

Jul 2, 2020

2019 Impact Fee Payments Fall with the Price of Gas

After setting record high figures in 2018, counties and municipalities should expect significantly less from 2019’s impact fee payments....

Jun 18, 2020

Tuesday Webinar to Focus on Leases and Royalties During Gas Downturn

Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management (CEPM) will host the second webinar in its series on “Effects of...

Apr 30, 2020

Injection Well in Plum Borough Stalled After Battle for Approval

After a six-year-long wait, Penneco Environmental Solutions LLC, a Pittsburgh-based oil and gas wastewater disposal service, has been...

Apr 9, 2020

Petrochemical Tax Break Vetoed by Gov. Wolf

Petrochemical companies with Pennsylvania in their sights may be reconsidering their development plans. This comes after Governor Tom...

Apr 2, 2020

Pa. DEP Revokes Its Approval for Indiana County Injection Well

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

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