PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Oil & Gas Wells Continue To Be Abandoned So far in 2024, DEP issued 767 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells, more than double the violations issued in 2019. Read more here.

2024

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Decrease To 31.2% Decrease To 31.2%

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Within this context, Wisconsin utilities are unique in their dogged pursuit of new gas capacity EIA data indicates that natural gas made up only 7% of U.S. The impact will be felt most acutely by outdoor workers and vulnerable populations including children, the elderly, and those who are pregnant.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2024

DEPs 2022 Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory shows coal mining-related greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 totaled an estimated 11.91 million metric tons, just behind natural gas production at 12.33 The greenhouse gas emissions from coal mining increased from 9.82 million metric tons.

Carbon Monoxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Previously, the Rose-Walters Prize has honored climate advocates including Elizabeth Kolbert, Mark Ruffalo, Bill McKibben and Lisa Jackson and organizations including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. McKean County [PaEN] [Posted: May 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

The shale gas wells were drilled from 2009 to 2013 in the earlier days of the shale gas revolution and never produced. Their inactive status expired without being renewed between 2019 and 2022, which means they should have been plugged three to six years ago. Lee 1H was also leaking gas.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboard -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. One In Susquehanna County Now [ PDF of Article ] -- TribLive: Environmental Hearing Board To Review DEP Shale Gas Well Permit Renewals To Apex Energy In Penn Twp., Ohio- $2.98

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1

2014

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

PaEN] -- -- Agencies Celebrate Eastern Hellbender License Plate Recognizing PAs Clean Water Ambassador; Shale Gas Development On DCNR Land Threatens Habitat [PaEN] -- Eastern Hellbender, Pollinator Habitat Vehicle License Plates Now Available From PennDOT [PaEN] [Posted: December 17, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

Similar to other challenges against local natural gas bans, the plaintiffs in this 2023 lawsuit argued that the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempted Local Law 154. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held that EPCA preempted a Berkeley ordinance that prohibited natural gas piping in new buildings.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboard -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboard -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% This is mainly a result of coal generation being replaced by natural gas generation (and to a smaller extent renewable energy sources like wind and solar) and energy efficiency improvements, due in part to Act 129 [utility energy efficiency program]. from 2005 to 2020.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Impoundments like this must be restored no later than 9 months after their final use, which in this case would have been by February 12, 2019. DEP inspection report. -- January 19, 2018 , no violations.

2017

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

The county began its Water Quality Monitoring program in 2020, following a 2019 report from the Department of Environmental Protection that claimed York County was the second-highest contributor to key pollutants of nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment entering the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

14, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report. -- Ambrose Freshwater Impoundment: Last use Nov. 13, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report.

Fossil Fuels

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

MARCH 22, 2025

The conventional well, owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co., Kriebel Natural Gas holds 1,681 permits. Lee 1H was also leaking gas. Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019. Inactive status expired on April 22, 2019. On March 21 , DEP notified Olympus/Hyperion its plan to fill in the void was approved.

Waste

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

MARCH 27, 2025

One way to better understand the impact the oil and gas industry has on the daily lives of Pennsylvanians is to read Oil and Gas Program inspection reports to see the kinds of violations DEP uncovers every day, week in and week out, as they inspect oil and gas wells and gas infrastructure across the state.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

The well-- Wissinger 001-- is owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co. LLC that also had a conventional gas well explosion and fire on March 19 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Read more here. The March 25 e xplosion involved a production storage tank and occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

A March 28, 2019 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions from the original July 18, 2018 inspection. An August 15, 2023 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions since the 2019 inspection report and issues violations for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

At the same time, Pennsylvania generates almost four times the amount of energy from the sun compared to five years ago in 2019, putting it in the middle of the pack (26th) behind neighboring states like New York (9th), New Jersey (13th), Maryland (23rd) and even Ohio (16th).

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Background The XTO settlement resolves allegations by the EPA and PADEP that XTO failed to comply with federal and state requirements to capture and control air emissions from 11 of its oil and gas production facilities in Butler County. The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

The Independent Fiscal Office reported in February Pennsylvania exported 87 million MW hours of electricity to other states and net exports increased by 24% from 2019 to 2024 and produced 18% of the total generation of the PJM region in 2024. It takes] approximately five years to build a new natural gas [power plant].

Electricity

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

The 2009 finding was referenced in subsequent endangerment and cause-or-contribute findings for other source categories, including power plants , oil and natural gas operations , and aircraft. EPA also made a separate cause-or-contribute finding in which it determined that U.S.

2009

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

. - Violations: Defective Well Casing/Cement (63 Months) March 18, 2025 inspections of the Powers 2H, 8H and 12H shale gas wells in Auburn Township, Susquehanna County for ongoing monitoring of well annuli for gas leaks found no leaks. Original violations issued on October 18, 2019 for defective well casing/cement.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 411 ) -- Columbia Gas Transmission - Hellertown Compressor Station: DEP issued a renewal of a State Only Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources at the facility located in Williams Twp., PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboard -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. Received Nov.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

The following notices were published in the March 29 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. PA Bulletin, page 2565 ) Read more here. -- Tennessee Gas Pipeline - Compressor Station 219: DEP to hold May 7 hearing on Title V RACT 3 Permit for the facility located in Jefferson Township, Mercer County. ( Luzerne County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Kober [PaEN] -- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Land s [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

Conservation

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. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. Photos: Row -- Oil & Gas MGMT Inc. Response requested by April 9. DEP inspection report Part I.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

[Editors Note: The Independent Fiscal Office reported in February Pennsylvania exported 87 million MW hours of electricity to other states and net exports increased by 24% from 2019 to 2024 and produced 18% of the total generation of the PJM region in 2024. Read more here.] GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Shale Gas Casing/Cementing Failures Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Violations Ongoing for 72 Months June 11, 2025 inspection of the shale gas wells McGraw 5H and McGraw N WYO 1H in Washington Township, Wyoming County for defective casing/cement. Original violations issued July 29, 2019. Violations Continued. Million In Sen.

2025

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

16 [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Plugging Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners Creates Jobs And A Healthier Planet - By Deb Haaland, Secretary, US Dept. Bartolotta, Sen. of the Interior -- Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Army Brigadier General, Retired -- Utility Dive: New York Utilities Urge FERC To Adopt Natural Gas Pipeline Reliability Requirements -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- ReImagine Appalachia's Virtual Strategy Summit Set For Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Decrease To 31.2% Million Trail Grant From DEP Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization Program -- Brodhead Watershed Association Protecting Clean Water Together: Who's In Charge Of Your Water? 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Decrease To 31.2% Decrease To 31.2%

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

was charged with 48 counts of environmental crimes for their conduct during the construction of the Mariner East 2 Pipeline which carries hazardous natural gas liquids. Natural gas escaped from the pipeline, causing a devastating explosion. Read more here.] Read more here.] In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 Read more here.

Natural Gas