PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In McKean County CNX Resources Challenges Environmental Hearing Board Authority To Add Conditions To Permits For Shale Gas Wells At The Drakulic Well Pad In Penn Twp.,

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. Read more here.]

Air Pollution

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. ( Read more here.

Natural Gas

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. An estimated 47 gallons of glycol was involved, but DEP referred the pad owner to the Act 2 Land Recycling Program for cleanup procedures and standards.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

EQT Chap LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells June 10, 2025 follow-up inspection of the Brunazzi Unit Well 9H , 10H , 11H shale gas wells in Deemston Borough, Washington County found them abandoned and unplugged. EQT responded that the 9H, 10H and 11H wells are scheduled to be plugged in 2026. Violations issued.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

. -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 19 & 21 -- The Center Square: Extended LIHEAP Energy Assistance Proposed In PA [In Face Of Proposed 100% Federal Cut] -- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Creek Twp. . -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6 Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On An Air Quality Permit For A Proposed 218 MW Natural Gas Power Plant For A Data Center In Bradford County; Site Originally Proposed For An LNG Gas Facility [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: Developer Looks To Build 30+ Data Centers In North Pocono Using 1.5 Data Centers; But What About ‘Ordinary People’?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 7, 21, Sept. 7, 21, Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp., To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Gigawatt Homer City Generation Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Indiana County [PaEN] -- Gov. Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In McKean County [PaEN] -- Warren Times Editorial: Pennsylvania Needs A New Plan For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; Increasing Bond Amounts Only Part Of Solution [PaEN] -- PUC Seeks $395,000 Penalty Against UGI Utilities For 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Suburban Harrisburg; $50,000 (..)

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 1377 ) On January 2, 2025 DEP issued a disapproval letter for an Act 2 Final Report on the remediation of a release from the Greenzweig shale gas wastewater impoundment covering releases first documented by DEP on February 3, 2020. Kriebel Natural Gas holds 1,681 conventional and related permits.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The project is moving forward on schedule for completion in 2026. Residents of Dimock Township have been waiting for reliable, permanent replacement water for their well water contaminated by shale gas fracking more than 20 years ago in the largest groundwater contamination event caused by shale gas development in Pennsylvania history.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Data Centers Set For Big Expansion In PA, Some Ask, At What Cost? -- Inside Climate News: Are You A Customer Of PJM?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

Of Health Briefing On State Response To Leak Now Available On Demand [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 5 to 11 - Late Night Conventional Wastewater Road Dumping Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Pipeline Leak Investigation Expands To 2 Other Counties; More Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- City & State PA Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Must Energize Efforts To Regulate Its Oil And Gas Industry - By By Rep. Million In Grants [PaEN] -- DCED Awards $22.6 Million In Grants [PaEN] -- DCED Awards $22.6

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

. -- DEP published multiple notices in the March 15 PA Bulletin inviting comments on Chapter 105 Encroachment and Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation permits and a Section 401 Certification for the National Fuel Gas Tioga Pathway Natural Gas Pipeline Project in McKean, Potter and Tioga Counties. ( Read more here. Received Jan.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Million In Grants [PaEN] -- Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Graduates Class Of 2025 Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania; Apply Now For Class Of 2026 [PaEN] -- TribLive: PennDOT Worker Taken To Hospital After Driver Hits Litter Cleanup Truck In Allegheny County -- Save The Date!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement. Click Here for the announcement.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

24 RiverWatch Video Report -- Centre Daily Times: Follow These Centre County Recycling Tips In 2025 -- Lock Haven Express: Penn State, DCNR Forest Health Briefing, Forest Landowners Conference March 6-8 In State College -- Jan. Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Monroe Energy Trainer - Quill Release: DEP received a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with inorganics and other organics to the Statewide Health Standard for the refinery located in Marcus Hook Borough, Delaware County. ( miles to allow for underground longwall coal mining. (

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 102 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. 7.8.25] -- PJM Interconnection Opens Next Electric Capacity Auction Bidding Window Of July 9 to 15 For 2026-27 Electric Delivery; Hold Your Breath!

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. DEP reached out to the well owner who said the wells are on a “plug list” and he anticipates the wells will be “part of a plugging group slated for April 2026.” Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 102 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. DEP inspection report. Northime holds 4 permits, including 1 abandoned well. Read more here. 4 [PaEN] -- Upper Makefield Twp. PaEN] -- US Dept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

. -- DEP published notices in the June 28 PA Bulletin related to permits and approvals needed for the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company’s Northeast Supply Enhancement Quarryville Pipeline Loop and compressor station projects in Chester and Lancaster counties. ( PA Bulletin, pages 4455-4457 ) Read more here. The projects-- a 10.17

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2025

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- DEP published notices in the July 19 PA Bulletin inviting comments on four water quality permits for the Texas Eastern Transmission, LP Appalachia to Market 3 natural gas pipeline upgrade project in Reading Twp., Adams County and Washington Twp., York County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

. -- DEP published notice in the July 12 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a State Only Air Quality Permit for the proposed 218 MW Wyalusing Energy Center , a natural gas-fired power plant in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County to be used to power a data center on the site originally proposed for an LNG gas processing facility. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

THURSDAY 10:00: Philadelphia LNG Natural Gas Export Task Force hearing on LNG terminal proposal in Philadelphia. THURSDAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2024

. -- The Susquehanna River Basin Commission published notice in the August 24 PA Bulletin announcing its September 12 to consider water withdrawal requests-- including eight shale gas development and a gas power plant-- the FY 2026 budget and procurement regulations. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Consol Energy Inc.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently, the CEO of Shell said the plant cost $14 billion to build and would not be fully operational until 2025 or 2026. [Note: A PA Senate Republican fact sheet on the Shell Petrochemical Plant estimated construction costs at $4 billion. Read more here.] The PRM tax credit is equal to $0.05 per gallon of ethane purchased ($2.10/barrel)

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 9 to 15 - 500 Conventional Abandoned Well Violations; 25 Days Of Shale Gas Water Withdrawals Without Permission; Wastewater Pipeline Spill EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4 8 Registration Open! 8 Registration Open!

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow [PaEN] -- 4 Months Later, XTO Energy, Inc. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ? 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ? PaEN] -- PA Cong.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2021

23 10th Annual SEEDS Free Book Swap In Wayne County Attracts Over 30,000 Books, Breaks Records DEP Extends Deadline For Accepting Applications For Section 902 Recycling Implementation Grants To Oct. Of Agriculture Preserves 1,999 Acres Of Farmland On 21 Farms In 13 Counties DCNR's Conservation & Natural Resources Council Hosts Oct.

Conservation