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Dec 17, 2024
Pa’s Impact Fee Payments Expected to be Lower in 2024
Counties and municipalities across the state of Pennsylvania will receive almost 9% less in impact fees paid by unconventional natural...
Dec 11, 2024
Pa. Oil and Gas Permit Backlog Eliminated
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has eliminated a backlog for oil and gas permit approvals after a year of...
Jun 20, 2024
Mountain Valley Pipeline Receives Approval to Operate
After years of delays and escalating costs, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given approval to Equitrans Midstream to start...
Jun 5, 2024
Wastewater from Pa. Shale Wells Could Be Major Lithium Source
Up to 40% of the lithium needed in the U.S. to support the rapidly increasing manufacture of batteries could be found in wastewater from...
Sep 15, 2021
Methane Emissions Fee Draws Opposition From Natural Gas Industry
A methane emissions fee that may be included in a huge federal budget reconciliation bill before Congress is getting pushback from...
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...
Aug 5, 2021
Pa. Landfill Leachate to be Tested for Radioactivity from Gas Waste
Pennsylvania landfills, including those that accept solid fracking waste, will soon have to test their leachate for radioactive...
Aug 5, 2021
EIA: Renewables Surpass Coal Generation for First Time
The energy mix in the United States is changing. A report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) illustrates this, indicating...
Jul 29, 2021
EQT, CNX Make Major Strides on Emissions
The emphasis on ESG – environmental, social, and governance standards – in the natural gas industry continues to build, as two...
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 22, 2021
Report: Record Pa. Gas Production in 2020 Despite Pandemic
Natural gas production in Pennsylvania set a new one-year record in 2020, despite an economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
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...
Jul 8, 2021
Legislative Package to Further Regulate Gas Industry Introduced
Several members of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus recently introduced a legislative package aimed at tightening restrictions...
Jul 1, 2021
Emissions Drop Attributed to Natural Gas Power Generation Shift
Carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation have decreased by 32 percent in the past 15 years in the U.S. due to the shift from...
Jun 24, 2021
Natural Gas Companies Show Improved Cash Flow
Despite the turbulence of 2020, shale gas producers were able to achieve positive free cash flows but only by significantly cutting...
Jun 24, 2021
Study: EPA Methods Underestimate Oil & Gas Methane Release
A team of Harvard University scientists contend in a recent study that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) methods greatly...
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...
Jun 10, 2021
Report Claims U.S. Already Halfway To Goal Of Zero Carbon Grid
A recent report claims solar and wind power innovations combined with the natural gas fracking boom and the COVID-19 pandemic to push the...
Jun 3, 2021
IEA Report Lays Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a comprehensive report laying the pathway to reaching net-zero emissions from energy...
May 27, 2021
EIA Expects Coal and Renewables to Power Summer Demand
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Short-Term Energy Outlook and supplemental reports analyzing energy...
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