PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

DeFrank, supporting the advancement of natural gas energy efficiency programs for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers, has been adopted by the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). Barrow , who both supported the resolution on gas energy efficiency programs.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

PJMs market design is creating a windfall for polluting fossil fuel sources, inflating utility costs, and continuing to slow the process of deploying new clean generation and storage resources. If PJM is unwilling to address these access issues, we believe all options should remain on the table, including leaving PJM. Decrease To 31.2%

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2025

For the past year, Ive been searching for the answer to one question: how can Alberta maintain its position as an energy leader in a world rapidly moving away from fossil fuels? Pathway two: electrification of the grid, weaning us from greenhouse gas-polluting methane ( natural gas ).

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP Posted 78 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In July 26 PA Bulletin [PaEN] Related Articles Last Week: -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

2023

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Instead, House Bill 502—tied directly to his ‘Lightning Plan’—serves fossil fuel interests while removing the very tools communities use to protect themselves. “At Similar efforts in the past including the SPEED program have resulted in majority fossil fuel project approvals. Read more here.] Click Here for letter.

Government

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. EPA also made a separate cause-or-contribute finding in which it determined that U.S.

2009

Enviromental Defense

JULY 21, 2025

Simply stated, more pipelines mean that more fossil fuels are pumped or mined from the ground, which are eventually burned, producing more greenhouse gases. As my colleague Emilia Belliveau says, “pipelines enable more fossil fuel use. We need less.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN] PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- July 26 to August 1 [PaEN] -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp.,

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2025

Many of these coalition partners have come together to ask the PSCW to reject the proposals for new gas plants, arguing that cleaner, affordable options are available nowand they are submitting data to prove it.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

“You can see the kind of mix that cleared in this past auction, a vast majority of which of course is natural gas. The cleared resource mix includes: 45% natural gas, 21% nuclear, 22% coal, 4% hydro, 3% wind and 1% solar. Obviously to use more than this. Click Here for a recording of the briefing.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Both large and independent producers have gone on record  in support of federal methane regulation and major oil and gas producing states including Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and New Mexico have already been implementing the standards. In 2023, oil and gas companies wasted $3.5 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Clean Air Act

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

MARCH 9, 2025

Billion -- American Gas Association: Presidents Tariffs On Canadian Natural Gas Will Cost US Consumers At Least $1.1 Billion A Year -- Inquirer: With Canada And Mexico As PAs Top Trade Partners, Gov. Ohio- $2.80 Ohio- $2.80 Ohio- $2.80 Ohio- $2.80 Ohio- $2.80

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

By Pamela Darville, Co-Chairperson of Climate Justice and Jobs Team at POWER Interfaith Recent opinion pieces and public comments by Senator McCormick and other members of Congress pushing for expanded fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania represent a reckless ode to corporate greed, masquerading as energy policy.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, the Sabin Center filed three comment letters opposing the proposal.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). This case will have a major impact on how and when power plants must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

2024

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2025

These directives, alongside illegal funding freezes, firings of federal employees, closures of entire agency offices, as well as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization show that the current administration prioritizes fossil fuel interests at the expense of human life. So what can we do?

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Natural gas ranks at 72% in popularity, while methane gas is 27% in popularity, he said. China will set out new goals for emission cuts by 2035 covering the entire scope of the economy, including all greenhouse gases, not just CO2 ahead of the COP30 summit, Xi said this week. Same thing, different words.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] -- Prioritizing DEP: During budget hearings in 2024, DEP estimated that the staff of its Oil and Gas Program, which oversees permitting and regulating the industry, was operating at about 75% capacity due to staffing shortfalls. Shapiros term. In his first two years as Pennsylvanias governor, Gov. Indeed, Gov.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

By plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, were tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and creating thousands of good-paying jobs in the process. So far in 2025, DEP issued or continued 31 violations to 7 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their wells. Josh Shapiro.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Natural] gas is not baseload power. Baseload power means that you have ample fuel supply for over three months. And I get there's plenty of gas out there, but that's all on demand. I think we absolutely need to continue to use natural gas. So coal and nuke are the only two that are baseload power on demand.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp., Acre Wildfire Near Popular Trail At Codorus -- TribLive: Under Pressure: Water Flow Issues Can Cripple Firefighters Who Rely On Patchwork Of Unregulated Hydrants -- PA Dept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

If we want to power the burgeoning AI economy and keep the lights on for average citizens at the same time, we must stay flexible about how that electricity is generated with the “all of the above” approach: meaning primarily natural gas in the short term followed closely by nuclear, hydro, battery and other storage, wind, solar, etc.

Electricity

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. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A renewed emphasis on fossil fuels is expected under another Trump administration, though coal will likely remain moribund thanks to poor economic fundamentals and constrained access to capital. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

Unfortunately , the report uses flawed assumptions that greatly exaggerate projected load growth and retirements of existing fossil plants, while significantly underestimating plans to add new cleaner generation to address potential reliability concerns. But who pays for all this gas infrastructure?

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

He accused the Biden administration of enacting the rules to kill off “baseload” coal and natural gas generation. ” The repeals, he said, would save fossil fuel generation and advance President Donald Trumps "energy dominance" agenda. “That was the intended consequences.” In 2021, the D.C.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

And if you want to get out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], come to the table and work on this with us." It's not just enough for us as a Commonwealth to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure. Shapiro had this to say to legislators who just want to attack him and his plan. .I Peter Schweyer.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set [PaEN] -- DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 (..)

Conservation

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

17 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit Renewal For The Consol Bailey Coal Prep Plant In Greene/Washington Counties [PaEN] -- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Meets Nov. Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and repeal 2024 amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that directly result in coal-fired power plants having to shut down.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities. Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2025

Shapiros offer to work on legislation to make the electric grid more reliable, diversify Pennsylvanias energy generation, lower energy costs for ratepayers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And the truth is, we can't produce the electricity without using our God-given natural resources, our fossil fuels.

Electricity