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...

A coalition of 10 environmental groups is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for what it claims are outdated standards for...

Whether a second petrochemical plant in the Appalachian region becomes a reality depends on a final investment decision by the...

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

Two pipeline companies have agreed to pay significant monetary penalties for pipeline slips and erosion and sedimentation problems that...

Appalachian gas drilling companies continued to spill red ink during the second quarter of 2020 despite cutting spending on new wells, a...

Setbacks are just one of the many regulatory mechanisms used to control natural gas extraction. Using Colorado as a case study,...

A new federal rule that would allow trains to carry bulk liquefied natural gas (LNG) by railcar across the country has been met with a...