Energy Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Washington County continued to benefit from the gas industry in 2019, leaders recently told an audience of business and industry...