Energy Updates

The state Department of Environmental Resources is again trying to update regulations governing conventional oil and gas drillers after...

Pennsylvania’s move to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will be explored during the Washington & Jefferson College Center for...

Chesapeake Energy has reached a settlement agreement with the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office for allegedly withholding royalty...

The Delaware River Basin Commission voted in late February to permanently ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas development in the...

Methane pollution around the world plunged last year, mainly due to lockdowns, lowered demand and drops in oil and gas production because...

Range Resources submitted “inaccurate and conflicting information” to the state Department of Environmental Resources over the status of...

More than 60 oil and gas companies from around the globe recently committed to a new method of reporting methane emissions that can leak...

Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed a severance tax on natural gas production in every year of his administration, and it appears that 2021 will...

President Joe Biden last week issued an executive order pausing new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and offshore waters. The pause...

A long-running lawsuit over the Pennsylvania legislature’s diversion of millions of dollars received from oil and gas leases in state...

The Mountain Valley Pipeline received a pair of key approvals for its route through a national forest in Virginia, but environmental...

The Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule is no more after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against the...

In the final days of the Trump Administration, the federal Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...

After three years, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission has offered Energy Transfer a settlement over the Revolution Pipeline...

State review of a proposed natural gas well at an Allegheny County steel mill has been suspended after the developer’s municipal permit...

Legislation to relax Pennsylvania laws governing conventional oil and gas drillers was recently passed by the state Senate, but vetoed...

Pipeline constructors and operators will now be on the hook for emergency management plans for their projects. Pennsylvania Governor Tom...

Senate Bill 619, introduced by state Senator Gene Yaw (R -23) is now in the House of Representatives. The bill is intended to lessen the...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has prohibited the operator of a pipeline that exploded in 2018 from putting...

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