PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Read more here. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

. - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells March 4, 2025 inspection of the 3 shale gas wells on the Pin Oaks 627027 well pad (6H, 8H, 10H) in Carroll Township, Washington County found them abandoned and not plugged. Wells drilled in 2010 and have not produced gas since 2016. Inactive status expired in May 2023.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Gigawatts By Increasing Reliability From Less Than 75% Now To An Achievable 90% [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports required by Congress under the federal Natural Gas Act to evaluate the public interest of proposed exports to countries with which the United States does not have a Free Trade Agreement. On December 17, the U.S. Department of Energy released an updated study of U.S. Read more here.];

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Rusting Out Vehicles Constant road dumping conventional oil and gas wastewater accelerates the process of rusting out vehicles in the dumping areas and literally eats holes in paved roads that make them look like swiss cheese.

Natural Gas

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., PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- CNX Gas Co. Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page.2006

2006

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The federal Inflation Reduction Act provided new opportunities and funding to reduce methane emissions from the petroleum and natural gas sector and DEP created the MERP Grant to provide funding to applicants to plug an eligible MCWs. DEP was awarded $44 million for the federal Methane Emissions Reduction plugging program.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Rusting Out Vehicles Constant road dumping conventional oil and gas wastewater accelerates the process of rusting out vehicles in the dumping areas and literally eats holes in paved roads that make them look like swiss cheese.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Resource Links: -- DEP: Shale Gas Well Control Problem Caused Uncontrolled Release Of Wastewater For Over 34 Hours At Repsol’s Broadleaf Holdings Well Pad In Troy Twp., Data Center Development In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA House Environmental Committee To Hold Aug.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Rules Could Come Soon In Westmoreland County -- PA Supreme Court Rules No Republican Senate, House Members Can Intervene In Legal Challenge To Act 96 That Took Away Authority To Increase Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bond Amounts To Cover Taxpayer Costs For Plugging [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $7.24

Air Pollution

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. In 2016, Apex reapplied for the Drakulic well site along with six other site applications. Permit Appeals Protect PT appealed those permits to the EHB.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

No Laws Or Regulations Have Changed In fact, since that report, no laws have changed, the regulations we have now have been in place for nine years and remain the same, and the number of DEP Oil and Gas Program staff dedicated to enforcement remain frozen at December 2016 levels, while the number of shale gas wells drilled grew 43.6%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports since 2016. Old MTN Gas Co. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Original violations issued April 24, 2023. Violations continued. Response requested by June 26.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Center- Fueled Natural Gas Gold Rush Bubbling In Northcentral PA -- Scranton Times: Al’s Quick Stop Convenience Store Developer Proposes A.I. Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I.

Conservation

A Greener Life

MARCH 21, 2025

A Standing Rock solidarity march held in San Francisco in November 2016. ” – Greenpeace International Executive Director, Mads Christensen DAPL during its construction in North Dakota in 2016. Photo credit: Pax Ahimsa Gethen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia. “We will not back down. .”

2016

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

AUGUST 6, 2025

. -- DEP/EPA AirNow Forecast Code Orange Air Quality Action Day August 6 For: Scranton & Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport Areas -- FracTracker Alliance: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Released 17.9

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2025

-- Lancaster City Council Approves Lease With Partners For Environmental Stewardship For Landmark Nature Preserve, Environmental Center [PaEN] -- PA Environmental Council StoryMap: Reforestation Of Abandoned Mine Lands In PA, 487,000 Seedlings Planted Since 2016 -- TribLive: Buffalo Twp.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Simons filed their initial complaint in Washington County Court on June 8, 2015 and their second on December 2, 2016 alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract and trespass. Click Here for a copy of the ruling and order. Read more here. Read more here.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

You can see our 2016 Resolution on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure here. When we’re done, we’ll present a report and story map which communities in Pennsylvania can use as a blueprint to inspire their own action. This program seeks to build on our legacy of advocating for clean and just energy transition.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The ban extended to the entire watershed, which covers parts of Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, but particularly affected Pennsylvania counties that are home to the nations largest gas field in the Marcellus Shale formation. The group owns about 180 acres with deposits of natural gas and minerals in Wayne County, Pa.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

Chesapeake Appalachia LLC [9 Years, 8 Months] July 23, 2025 inspection of the Warren 2H shale gas well in Windham Township, Wyoming County as part of ongoing well monitoring for defective casing/cementing. Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Monitoring continued.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. By Robert Hughes, Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: The Harms And Impacts Of PA’s New A.I.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Reliance on fossil natural gas and the slow adoption of renewable energy contributed to electricity bills in New England in the first nine months of 2022 that are $5 billion higher than the prior year. When gas production grew. Increase in monthly gas production (Source: US Energy Information Administration).

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., Bachelder Shale Gas Well Pad. PA Bulletin, page 5759 ) -- Hickory Run Energy, LLC - Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP issued a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in North Beaver Twp., Bradford County.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make natural gas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 22, Senators Steven Santarsiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, introduced Senate Bill 581 to increase setback safety zones from natural gas drilling sites and other infrastructure based on the latest science. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 18, Senators Steven Santasiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced they were introducing legislation to increase setback safety zones from shale natural gas drilling sites based on the latest science. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The hearing also did not tackle the issue of why Pennsylvanians, sitting on top of one of the richest natural gas reservoirs in the world, have been subjected to natural gas cost increases of as much as 154 percent over the last year from utilities. Or, why a Susquehanna County Gas Company is proposing to raise rates 33.2

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy Information Administration released its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook which projects solar and wind renewable energy’s share of electricity generation will keep rising and lead to a decline in natural gas generation. ‘We Natural Gas Prices “In March, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price averaged $4.90

Natural Gas

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The radiative forcing from these changes in concentrations can be easily calculated using standard formulas (from Etminan et al, 2016 which supersede the slightly simpler ones from IPCC TAR), as about 2 W/m 2 for the CO 2 change and 0.65 W/m 2 for CH 4. The AR4 value for methane GWP-100 was 25. Highwood, and K.P.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Daryl Metcalfe, Majority Chair of the House Environment Resources and Energy Committee, announced a September 20 “Wellhead to Stovetop - Conveying Energy in PA” hearing on natural gas and pipelines in Pennsylvania. In a March hearing, Rep. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Schwartz, M.D., Read more here.

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 Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the region's premier low carbon intensive natural gas development, technology, and applications company, CNX is uniquely positioned to help revolutionize Appalachia, one of the world's most energy abundant regions, into an energy, manufacturing, and technology hub of the future. On December 12, CNX Resources Corp.

Natural Gas