PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

DEP inspection report - 6H; DEP inspection report - 8H; DEP inspection report - 10H;] Rice Drilling B LLC [EQT] - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 4, 2025 inspection of the Roger Parry 7H shale gas well in Aleppo Township, Greene County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Well drilled in 2014.

2025

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The proposal is in direct contradiction to Pennsylvania’s commitments under the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement. Naturally reproducing brook trout would be devastated. Flooding and clear cutting of habitats will result in increased risk of erosion and destroy vital wildlife habitat along Cuffs Run and the river.

Conservation

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

MAY 22, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

Pennsylvania saw a more than 4,000% jump since 2014 in the number of electric vehicles registered in the state, ranking the Commonwealth 14th in the nation for EV registrations. GW, Mainly Gas Power Projects To Bolster Grid Supplies [Posted: May 7, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and Natural Gas Extraction. Of Health Oil & Natural Gas Production Health Concerns -- Dept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

Drakulic Well Pad Background In 2014, Apex Energy (PA), LLC, acquired in 2025 by WCAA Upstream, LLC, applied for a permit to build an unconventional gas well pad in Penn Township. Apex subsequently withdrew this application because Penn Township was in the process of updating its ordinance for unconventional well operations.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

Rice Drillling B LLC [EQT] - Violations 2 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells May 20, 2025 inspections of the Roger Parry 5H and Roger Parry 7H shale gas wells in Aleppo Township, Greene County found them abandoned and not plugged. Both wells were drilled in December 2014. No gas was detected from slam bar holes or the well.

2025

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Plaintiffs allege that in August 2014 they learned that Defendant Sunoco Pipeline did not have eminent domain authority in 2013 when the Right of Way was negotiated, and the Agreement was signed. Click Here for a copy of the ruling and order. Read more here. Read more here.

2013

Yale E360

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The Russian attack on Ukraine has led to a spike in energy prices, with oil briefly surpassing $100 a barrel , the highest level since 2014, and Dutch and British gas prices rising 40 to 60 percent Thursday. Russia is the world's second-largest exporter of oil and largest exporter of natural gas.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Flickr: Natural Gas Plant. As Senior Fellow Amy Turner documented last year , a number of local governments around the country have moved to prohibit natural gas hookups in buildings. However, some state governments have blocked those local measures, preventing municipalities from enacting natural gas bans.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And it would apply the two-thirds vote retroactively to projects approved since 2014. NextEra operates a natural gas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra operate natural gas plants in the state. million through October 27 and is led by energy companies NextEra, Calpine, and Vistra.

2021

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

On May 1, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was told the wholesale prices of electricity in the PJM regional electric grid are too low to support coal and natural gas power plants. Why do we see these types of projects in the queue? Click Here Thomas’ presentation to the Committee.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2023

PJM is now reporting forced outages of natural gas-fired electric generation accounted for 70% of the total outages, coal 16% and the remainder were oil, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar. A report in April by PJM said natural gas accounted for about 63% of forced outages, coal 28%, oil 4%, nuclear 2%, hydro 1% and “other” 1%.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Energy Information Administration (EIA)-- -- Natural Gas: Pennsylvania’s marketed natural gas production, primarily from the Marcellus Shale, reached a record 7.6 Why aren't natural gas or nuclear or coal, why aren't they applying for new generation capacity? Read more here. ]

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014. A few critical points puncture the industry’s empty rhetoric: When hydrogen is burned, it can emit as many nitrogen oxides as natural gas combustion —if not more —which can cause significant respiratory health problems.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 22, 2025

org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. And Enbridge operates an existing pipeline network around Lake Michigan that is capable of transporting oil and natural gas liquids to Sarnia without crossing the Straits. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc., billion.

2010

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

The Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee will hold its second hearing May 1 on electric grid reliability and the failure of natural gas and other generation to provide power when called on by PJM during Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here ] Click Here to read more from February hearing.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. From 2014 into 2017, they worked in Plunketts Creek Township to put good zoning protections in place for residents. The freshwater pipeline will be constructed aboveground.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

The same scenario has played out with the power plants that use fossil fuels, predominantly methane (“natural”) gas, delivered by pipelines. The electric power system is trapped by gas-dependent power plants that cannot obtain gas when it needs it to keep the lights on.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

The self-governing PJM stakeholders put this in place after so many supposedly “firm” generators failed to perform in 2014. PJM stakeholders voted on this policy to penalize energy suppliers who merely claim to be reliable and to use that money to reward the suppliers that actually exceed their expected performance.

2014

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%. Natural Gas Costs Doubled In 2021 However, that trend reversed in 2021 when the cost of natural gas delivered to U.S. The forecast share of generation for U.S.

Natural Gas

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 14, 2023

Our country continues to experience an increase in significant weather events- the 2014 Polar Vortex, successive hurricanes, fires, and Winter Storm Uri in 2021, which brought down Texas' grid,” said Chairman Dutrieuille. Natural Gas Is An Intermittent Generator Rep. The issues were actually at the wellhead. “It

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

Army Corps of Engineers to Driftwood LNG – a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction near Lake Charles. 1] The petition was filed – and the suit will proceed – in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which has jurisdiction over such matters pursuant to The Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

2010

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually. The Program has been linked with the Cap-and-Trade System of Québec since 2014. billion.

2030

Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

He’s perfected the art of spinning “natural” gas, a fossil fuel, and liquified natural gas (LNG) as transition fuels, despite a thorough debunking. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel that’s bad for the climate and harmful to human health, but you wouldn’t know it from the gas industry’s branding.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

DEP also issued an NOV for failure of the operator to plug the well to stop the vertical flow of fluids or gas within the well bore. It was granted inactive status on April 24, 2014 which expired on April 24, 2019 without a request for extension.

2009

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Gillian Graber Gillian Graber, from Harrison City, Westmoreland County, is the executive director and co-founder of Protect Penn-Trafford (Protect PT) , a grassroots community-based nonprofit established in 2014 to protect residents of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland and Allegheny counties from the impacts of fossil fuel activity.

2023

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The 2024 State of the Methane Mitigation Industry Report highlights the following key findings-- -- 33 companies now operate in Pennsylvania, up from 27 in 2021 and 20 in 2014, marking a 65% increase over the past decade. -- The number of employee locations in the methane mitigation industry across the state has grown to 50 in 2024, a 38.9%

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

However, specialists are calling for a broader restructuring of entrenched economic and energy models, which depend largely on the exploitation of fossil fuels – primarily natural gas – as well as the distribution of the resources derived from their sale, and the subsidised supply of hydrocarbons to the domestic market.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I'll talk just a tiny bit about background on Marcellus [Shale gas], most people here probably don't need that, but just to get us started, and then I will talk a bit about distributive environmental injustice, the measure of deprivation that we use, community socioeconomic deprivation, and then results from this study. Read more here.]

Waste