Energy Updates

A methane emissions fee that may be included in a huge federal budget reconciliation bill before Congress is getting pushback from...

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

Pennsylvania landfills, including those that accept solid fracking waste, will soon have to test their leachate for radioactive...

The energy mix in the United States is changing. A report by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) illustrates this, indicating...

The emphasis on ESG – environmental, social, and governance standards – in the natural gas industry continues to build, as two...

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

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania set a new one-year record in 2020, despite an economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...

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

Several members of the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus recently introduced a legislative package aimed at tightening restrictions...

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...

Despite the turbulence of 2020, shale gas producers were able to achieve positive free cash flows but only by significantly cutting...

A team of Harvard University scientists contend in a recent study that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) methods greatly...

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

A recent report claims solar and wind power innovations combined with the natural gas fracking boom and the COVID-19 pandemic to push the...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released a comprehensive report laying the pathway to reaching net-zero emissions from energy...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Short-Term Energy Outlook and supplemental reports analyzing energy...

U.S. Steel has scrapped plans to have Marcellus Shale gas wells drilled on the property of its Edgar Thomson Works in Allegheny County....

A recent study claims to show a link between shale gas drilling and increased hospitalization rates for heart failure patients who live...

Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp., already the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., is buying Alta Resources Development LLC, extending its...

President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan includes a massive investment in the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells. Under...