2021 Air Pollution Government Natural Gas 
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempts a local ordinance in Berkeley, California that prohibits most natural gas hook-ups to newly-constructed buildings. . In July 2021, the U.S. Constitution, and most states, including California, delegate some or all aspects of it to local governments within their borders.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 10, 2023
On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 21, 2021
On December 21, sixteen local and statewide environmental groups expressed their opposition to a proposed natural gas to gasoline refinery to be built in Luzerne County by Texas-based Nacero. The groups issued the statement below and made available a fact sheet on the project from The Clean Air Council.
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 16, 2023
The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 2, 2023
By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale natural gas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Counties across the state have witnessed harm from the heavy industrial activity associated with natural gas exploration.
Law Columbia
APRIL 18, 2023
The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. Berkeley’s so-called “natural gas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. First, there’s air pollution. Its primary component is methane. VY: They do.
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