PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. DEP noted the well abandonments violate an August 3, 2023 consent order and agreement between Diversified Production LLC and DEP. Violations were issued for abandonment and failure to comply with the order.

2010

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. On April 22, 2022, the Latkanichs filed a complaint with DEP requesting an investigation of their water supply saying it was impacted by oil and gas operations, including PFAS forever chemicals.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co., LLC signed a consent order and agreement requiring the company to plug a shale gas well that was abandoned for 8 years in Hebron Township, Potter County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. DEP inspection report -- Peoples Natural Gas 1: Leaking gas in a way that threatens health and the environment (since November 22, 2022). Read more here. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. Response requested by April 19.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

The conventional well, owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co., Kriebel Natural Gas holds 1,681 permits. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ DEP arrived on the scene just before 2:30 p.m.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

On April 1, 2025, the Department of Environmental Protection inspected the Winner 6 shale gas well pad and 3 million gallon water impoundment in East Keating Township, Clinton County owned by Frontier Natural Resources and found the pad and impoundment had not been restored. Read more here.

2017

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

During last years report, Kurt Klapkowski, DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, also highlighted the complexity of these investigations especially in areas with underground coal mining, natural gas pipelines, gas storage areas and thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells.

2023

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

The well sites, which were generally developed between 2011 and 2013, include-- -- Big Beaver Borough: Wall BEA 3H -- Chippewa Township: MAGA BEA 8H; Roberts BEA 6H -- Greene Township: Kirkwood BEA 8H -- Industry Borough: Cody Trust BEA 3H -- Ohioville Borough: David Burdick 3H; Fedorchak BEA 3H; James Tharp 3H -- South Beaver Township: David.

2023

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Source: [link] All of these harms are in addition to natural gas and oil industry waste on the Navajo Nation , increased invasive bacterial cases, drought and heat waves associated with climate change that directly threaten Navajo ties to ancestral land, and a lack of local cancer care specialists.As years for males and 71.8

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Conventional Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., Well was drilled in 2011. Bialy Gas Production LLC; Chris E. Well as drilled in 2011. Original violation issued November 9, 2011. Read more here. It is classified as abandoned.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

. - R.Bushnell Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with oil-based mud mixed with diesel fuel to meet the Statewide Health and Background Standards at the pad located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page.2006 Montour County. ( PA Bulletin, page.1965 Washington County.

2006

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

On March 19, firefighters and DEP responded to another explosion and fire at a conventional well owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co LLC in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Well completed in 2011. Photos: Row -- Oil & Gas MGMT Inc. Response requested by April 9. DEP inspection report Part I. Read more here.

2025

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

410, 426 (2011)). Second, the rules prescribe performance standards for existing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. Finally, the rules prescribe performance standards for new and modified natural gas-fired power plants. Connecticut , 564 U.S. First, they repeal the Trump-era Affordable Clean Energy Rule.

2024

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2025

On June 23, the Public Utility Commission announced the distribution of $164,592,500 in Act 13 natural gas per well impact fees collected from producers for the 2024 reporting year.-- $15 million less than last year. Owners of hundreds of thousands of conventional oil and gas wells pay nothing.] “The Read more here.

2024

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2025

PMG Baird 1H - Drilled in 2011 [ DEP inspection report ] Well listed as abandoned on December 7, 2023 [ DEP inspection report ] -- Fayette County, Henry Clay Twp. Humberston Unit 1H - Drilled in 2011. [ Armstrong County Drinking Water Investigation February 25, 2025 inspection of the Kriebel Natural Gas Co.

2012

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

Read more here -April 19 Read more here - April 26 Water Supply/Methane Migration Investigation Armstrong County, Kittanning Township April 14 & 21, 2025 inspections of the Kriebel Natural Gas Co. Gas continues to be vented into a production tank. Original violation issued November 9, 2011. DEP inspection report.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

Failure To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Well LPR Energy LLC - Violation: Failed To Comply With Order To Plug Shale Gas Well May 5, 2025 inspection of the Humberston Unit 1H shale gas well in Henry Clay Township, Fayette County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Well was drilled in 2011.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Last week DEP inspected the Humberston Unit 1H shale gas well in Fayette County owned by LPR Energy and said the same thing [ Read more here ]. Both shale gas wells were declared abandoned on December 7, 2023. Both wells were drilled in 2011. Bialy Gas Production LLC; Chris E. The well was drilled in 2011.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022 across southern Pennsylvania and into several states, while also contaminating nearby ground and waters. billion cubic feet of natural gas; Repsol continues cleanup from uncontrolled shale gas wastewater release; One of 19 Timberline Energy Inc. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and natural gas facilities.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2011, EPA had estimated that the compliance cost would work out to $9.6 A lot of coal plants closed after the rule went into effect, but it’s very hard to say how much difference the rule made, as opposed to factors like plunging prices for natural gas due to fracking. billion per year.

2011

New Scientist

JANUARY 11, 2024

Natural gas plant failures were the main factor behind electricity shortfalls and outages during major winter storms in the US since 2011 – that risk remains as the US faces more extreme cold weather

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, ExxonMobil is moving ahead with development of 12 million tons per year of liquefied natural gas and plans to keep its current assets in production, and other supermajors are planning more of the same. An analysis by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform found that of the $452.6

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

million to $179,634,750 from last year's record $278,881,450 assessed on unconventional shale gas wells even though natural gas production went up in 2023. The more numerous conventional oil and gas well owners pay no fee. With this year’s distribution, the PUC has collected and distributed over $2.7

2023

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

announced it has begun providing renewable natural gas (RNG) for the Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority in Bellefonte, Centre County, supporting a transition to a cleaner, low-carbon fuel produced from organic waste. WM is committed to the growth of our natural gas fleet and investing in renewable energy through RNG.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2022

We forecast that the share of generation from natural gas will fall from 37% in 2021 to 34% by 2023 and the coal share will decline from 23% to 22%. electric power sector at the end of 2021 is 20 times more than it was at the end of 2011, and U.S. EIA forecasts the cost of natural gas will average $3.79

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023.

2006

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2021

The FracTracker Alliance has released a digital atlas showing the impacts of natural gas development in the Lycoming Creek Watershed located primarily in Lycoming County. The Lycoming Creek watershed is part of a densely drilled cluster of unconventional natural gas wells in north central Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

This year’s distribution is over $44 million higher than last year, driven primarily by the average price of natural gas in 2022 ($6.64 Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. 410 (2011). And it is doubtful we had in mind that it would claim the authority to require a large shift from coal to natural gas, wind, and solar. I will leave to others a discussion of “major question doctrine” and other aspects of the West Virginia case. Now, in West Virginia v. Post, at 20.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

Natural gas pipelines have been penalized over $71 million for environmental violations making them the most penalized industry in Pennsylvania. The PUC’s amendments to Chapter 59 of Title 52 of Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Code do not apply to pipelines covered under Act 127 of 2011, the Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Act.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

On June 17, the Public Utility Commission posted detailed information about the distribution of 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee revenue from unconventional shale natural gas producers – totaling $234,437,575 – on the PUC’s Act 13 website. Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

Through the IRP process, for instance, the CPUC can significantly influence whether natural gas plants are retired, extended, or built in the state. At a more granular level, this includes critical decisions about where our electricity will come from and whether it will be clean.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

2011

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Repeated sediment pollution incidents and accusations of destroying habitat for rare hellbenders on a Pennsylvania “river of the year” have brought criticism over natural gas operations in a scenic valley and revealed weak protections for “exceptional value” streams. Democratic Gov. Republican Gov.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

which aims to use science so nature can thrive, and executed by Think Atom, a Finland-based not-for-profit research firm. Around 75% comes from fossil fuels: burning coal, natural gas and oil. The report; ’The One Billion Tons’ was commissioned by Ökomoderne e.V.,

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

Warehouse Proposal In Northampton County, Some Express Concerns About Stormwater Runoff -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Pittsburgh Begins Landslide Mitigation Work On Mount Washington -- PA American Water Launches Interactive Online Map To Identify, Replace Lead Service Lines -- Renewable Energy Magazine: University Joint Authority Celebrates Groundbreaking (..)

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