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*  [11/18/2024] FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec. 4
*  [11/18/2024] Moms Clean Air Force: Pennsylvanians Call On State Leaders For Protection From Fossil Fuel And Plastic Industry Expansion
*  [11/18/2024] Guest Essay: Our Children’s Health Isn’t Partisan, Pennsylvania Needs Strong Pollution Protections From Fracking Now
*  [11/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 9 to 15 - Failed Well Pluggings; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells; More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [11/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 16
*  [11/11/2024] Cecil Township Supervisors In Washington County Adopt 2,500 Setback From Shale Gas Well Pads From Homes, Businesses, 5,000 Foot Setback From Hospitals, Schools
*  [11/11/2024] PA Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Punish Local Elected Officials Who Want To Protect Their Constituents From The Documented Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Development
*  [11/11/2024] Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County
*  [11/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 2 to 8 - 8,800 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; Failure To Comply With Plugging Order; Spills, Releases, Gas Leaks
*  [11/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 9
*  [11/11/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Dec. 12 Learn How To Effectively Advocate For Change Workshop In Washington County
*  [11/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [11/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 2
*  [10/28/2024] Dr. Susan L. Brantley Named A Distinguished Daughter Of Pennsylvania For Her Research On Water, Geology And The Environmental Impacts Of Natural Gas, Oil Extraction
*  [10/28/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 19 to 25 - DEP Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Top 814; Conventional Owner Ignores Order; Gas Leaks & Spills
*  [10/28/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26
*  [10/28/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 20 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In September; 232 General Permits So Far In 2024
*  [10/28/2024] Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget
*  [10/28/2024] EDF: New Report Shows 22% Growth In PA's Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Mitigation Industry In 3 Years
*  [10/28/2024] PJM CEO Expresses Concern About Electric Generating Capacity: Higher Prices Have Incentivized Some Generators, But Building Gas Generators Has Slowed, Permitting, Supply Chain Issues Hamper Renewables
*  [10/21/2024] Ohio River Valley Institute: Pennsylvania Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Regulations On Fracking, New Poll Finds
*  [10/21/2024] Saint Vincent College Study Finds Counties With Shale Gas Fracking Wells Using Chemicals That Target Certain Hormones Have Greater Incidence Of Pre-Term Births, Low Birth Weights
*  [10/21/2024] Observer-Reporter Letter: There’s Another Side To The 'Shale Gas Revolution'
*  [10/21/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 5 to 18 - Conventional Well Owners Issued 767 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells - So Far, More Than Double Number In 2019; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
*  [10/21/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 9 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
*  [10/21/2024] Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov. Shapiro, DEP In Support Of Strong Oil & Gas Industry Methane Emission Controls
*  [10/21/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 19
*  [10/21/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 12
*  [10/7/2024] DEP Advisory Group To Hear How DEP Proposes To Implement New Federal Methane Reduction Rule For Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Wells, Infrastructure Oct. 10
*  [10/7/2024] State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications From Local Fire, Emergency Services For Training, Equipment To Respond To Shale Gas Infrastructure Fires, Emergencies
*  [10/7/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 - Five More Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations; Failure To Disclose Fracking Chemicals; Failure To Report Waste Generation & Disposal; Lawnmower Causes Conventional Pipeline Gas Leak
*  [10/7/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development
*  [10/7/2024] No Decision Posted Yet From DEP On Whether Flare Gas Chemical Makeup, Volume At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Is Confidential Business Information
*  [10/7/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 5
*  [9/30/2024] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA’s Dr. Ned Ketyer Shares Summary Of Studies Of Shale Gas Development Impacts On Human Health
*  [9/30/2024] US DOE: China Is Biggest Destination For US LNG Gas Exports; PA Shale Gas Industry Says We Have ‘Duty’ To Export Gas To China, Our Military, Economic Competitor
*  [9/30/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 21 to 27 - Gas Storage Areas Wells Leaking; Failure To Comply With Orders, Failure To Report Fracking Chemicals; Bubbling Conventional Pipeline Leak
*  [9/30/2024] DEP: Comments Due Oct. 21 On New 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Being Built In Springfield, Troy, West Burlington & Granville Townships, Bradford County
*  [9/30/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 28
*  [9/30/2024] Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community, Partners Release New Disability-Centered Guidance For Transportation Accidents, Petrochemical Plant Spills, Releases
*  [9/23/2024] Environmental Health Project: State Dept. Of Health Progress On Implementing Recommendations After Pitt Health Studies Show Impacts From Shale Gas Development ‘Extremely Limited’
*  [9/23/2024] Del-Chesco United For Pipeline Safety: Texas Explosion Shows Communities In PA With Energy Transfer's Mariner East Pipeline And Other Pipelines Are Vulnerable To The Same Unmitigated Risk From Unsecured Pipeline Valves
*  [9/23/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 14 to 20 - Seeing Conventional Wastewater Spill From Google Earth; Emergency Well Plugging; Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Leaking Gas Well Next To Baseball Field
*  [9/23/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 21
*  [9/23/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 24 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In August; 212 General Permits So Far In 2024
*  [9/23/2024] Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp Sounds Alarm Over Maintaining Sufficient Winter Natural Gas Supplies To Address Extreme Winter Conditions; PA Gas Producers Cutting Production, Pulling Drill Rigs
*  [9/23/2024] Call For Presentations! Bucknell University 2024 River Symposium Nov. 8-9
*  [9/16/2024] Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov. 4
*  [9/16/2024] Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents
*  [9/16/2024] DEP Finds Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Sprayed & Leaked 12,600+ Gallons For Nearly 3 Hours In Gilmore Twp., Greene County
*  [9/16/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 14
*  [9/16/2024] House Committee Sets Sept. 17 Hearing On PA One Call Underground Utility Notification Program Reauthorization; Almost All Conventional Gas/Oil Pipelines Specifically Excluded
*  [9/16/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 7 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
*  [9/16/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests - Including 8 For Shale Gas Development; Total Of 23 In 2024
*  [9/9/2024] Sen. Comitta: New PUC Pipeline Safety Regulations To Be Published As Final This Month For Public Utility Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
*  [9/9/2024] Environmental Health Project: CNX Resources Claims Shale Gas Drilling Poses No Public Health Risks Are ‘Misleading, Irresponsible, Dangerous’
*  [9/9/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept. 24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure
*  [9/9/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 - Mystery Oil Leak Into Allegheny River; Holes In Shale Gas Casing; 65 Days Late In Plugging Conventional Well
*  [9/2/2024] Sept. 19 Webinar: A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From Natural Gas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies?
*  [9/2/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Strategies To Prevent Well Abandonments; Injection Well Primacy; Tracking Water Contamination; Other Topics
*  [9/2/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 24 to 30 - Water Pipeline Blowout; 9-Year-Old Hits Conventional Gas Well; 5 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells
*  [9/2/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 31
*  [8/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 10 to 16 - Failure To File Critical Annual Report Violations Sent To Owners Of 5,300+ Conventional Wells; Failure To Fix Leaking Wells
*  [8/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 17
*  [8/19/2024] CNX: 'Natural Gas Development Is Safe And Poses No Public Health Risks,' Based On CNX Air Quality Monitoring From 14 Sites, Most For Just 4 To 24 Weeks
*  [8/19/2024] Penn State, Shell Petrochemicals, Shell Pipeline Company Announce Collaboration Focused On Energy And Sustainability
*  [8/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; 700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations
*  [8/12/2024] Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County
*  [8/12/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 20 In-Person Program On Investigations Into Rare Childhood Cancers In Washington County
*  [8/12/2024] Environmental Health Project Contributes To New Book On Sustainable Development & Rural Public Health - From Fossil Fuels To Greener Futures
*  [8/12/2024] FracTracker Alliance, Halt The Harm Network Invite Nominations For 2024 Community Sentinel Awards
*  [8/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 10
*  [8/5/2024] DEP Issues Violations To D & B Gas Prod LLC For Abandoning, Not Plugging 110 Conventional Gas, Coalbed Methane Wells In Indiana County; Total Abandonment NOVs 697 In 2024
*  [8/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 27 to August 2 - 120 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 3rd Pipeline Construction Spill; 1,260 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill
*  [8/5/2024] PUC Seeks To Accelerate Removal, Replacement Of Older Plastic Pipe In Natural Gas Distribution Systems
*  [8/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 3
*  [7/29/2024] No One Warned A Cameron County Family Their Water Well Was Contaminated By A Seneca Resources Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Rupture
*  [7/29/2024] Penn State Extension Aug. 21 Webinar - Water Testing Through Penn State's Ag Analytical Lab
*  [7/29/2024] Shell Petrochemical Plant Asks DEP To Classify Chemical Makeup, Flow Rate Of Gases Going To Be Burned Off By Flares, Air Pollution Sources, Control Equipment Operating At The Plant Confidential Business Information
*  [7/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 20 to 26 - Abandoned Well Violations To Owner Of 727 Conventional Wells ‘Returned To Sender,’ More Wastewater Pipeline Spills; 2nd Attempt To Plug Shale Gas Well
*  [7/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 27
*  [7/29/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 22 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In June; 155 General Permits In 2024
*  [7/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 13 to 19 - Pipeline Construction Spill; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
*  [7/22/2024] DEP Sets Aug. 21 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Equitrans LP Compressor Station In Union Twp., Washington County
*  [7/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 20
*  [7/22/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests For Amazon Data Center, Luzerne County; 8 Shale Gas Development, Gas Power Plant Withdrawals
*  [7/22/2024] Protect PT Hosts Aug. 1 Training Session On Using Its App To Report Problems At Oil & Gas Infrastructure Sites
*  [7/15/2024] House, Senate Send Bill Authorizing Geologic Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide To The Governor
*  [7/15/2024] Federal Court Again Says Groups Have A Right To Appeal Permits For Gas Pipelines To State Environmental Hearing Board, Overruling Transco, DEP Objections
*  [7/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 6 to 12 - Double Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Failure; 19 + 12 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Draining Water Impoundment By Spraying
*  [7/15/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Water Encroachment Permit For A Beech Resources, LLC Project To Construct 3 Pipelines On A Right-of-Way Impacting An Exceptional Value Stream, EV Wetlands In Lycoming County
*  [7/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 13
*  [7/15/2024] State Health Plan Identified Oil & Gas Development As Health Risk Last Year; Environmental Health Indicators Map Is Now Available To Show Potential Risks Near You
*  [7/15/2024] PUC's Pipeline Safety Program Recognized For Exemplary Standards & Impact On Residents, Businesses; State Agencies Lack Authority To Act On Pipeline Issues
*  [7/8/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Carbon Sequestration-Hydrogen Hub Pipelines; Critical/Rare Earth Mineral Recycling At July 9 Meeting
*  [7/8/2024] Federal Judge Halts Biden’s Pause On New LNG Gas Export Facility Permits; EQT, PA Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Plan To Ship PA Gas To China To Support Its Economy
*  [7/8/2024] PublicSource.org: July 9 Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia
*  [7/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 29 to July 5 - Lots Of Conventional Wells Venting Gas; 12 + 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [7/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 6
*  [7/1/2024] House Committee Told Governor’s Energy Plan Diversifies Energy Generation, Avoids One-Fuel Dependence, Improves Grid Reliability, Lowers Consumer Costs, Generates Jobs; Or Upends Competitive Markets And Is A ‘Death Wish’ For Our Economy
*  [7/1/2024] Sen. Camera Bartolotta: PA Should Be Producing 4 Times The Gas We Are Now, Exporting It Around The World: ‘We Just Need To Get Government The Hell Out Of The Way’
*  [7/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 22 to 28 - 12 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order
*  [7/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 29
*  [7/1/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawals, Including 7 More For Shale Gas Development In June; Total Of 15 In 2024
*  [7/1/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 33 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In May; 133 General Permits In 2024
*  [7/1/2024] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts July 17 Meeting In Washington County On How To Protect Your Families' Health Living Near Shale Gas Facilities
*  [6/24/2024] IRRC Approves Final Revised PUC Regulations Strengthening Rules For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines; Gas Pipelines Fined Over $71 Million, Have Worst Compliance Record Of Any Industry, Including Criminal Charges
*  [6/24/2024] DEP To Hold July 2 Virtual Hearing On PA General Energy Project To Construct 3.7 Miles Of Shale Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
*  [6/24/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 15 to 21 - More Failed Shale Gas Well Plugs; Landslides; Venting Gas; Injection Well Issue?
*  [6/24/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 22
*  [6/17/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 8 to 14 - Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Now Top 512, Equaling All Of 2023
*  [6/17/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 15
*  [6/10/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment
*  [6/10/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 1 to 7 - 38 Conventional Wells Evaluated For Plugging; Spills; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Failure To Notify DEP Of 121 Conventional Well Owner Transfers
*  [6/10/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 8
*  [6/3/2024] Week 10: Illegal Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues Unabated On Paved, Dirt Roads, Before It Rains, It Doesn’t Matter In Warren County
*  [6/3/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 25 to 31 - Shale Wastewater Pipeline Spill; Drill Cuttings Violations; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [6/3/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 1
*  [6/3/2024] Penn State Research Traced Radioactive Radium In Freshwater Mussels To Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [6/3/2024] Protect PT Hosts 4 Virtual Workshops On How To Protect Yourself If You Live Near Shale Gas Facilities Starting June 11
*  [6/3/2024] Evangelical Environmental Network, Partners Host June 5 Webinar On Pipeline Methane Leaks - Causes, Impacts, Solutions
*  [6/3/2024] Protect PT Lunch & Learn Online Program - Frac-Enomics, Is It Worth It? Now On Demand
*  [6/3/2024] Natural Resources Defense Council Releases Recommendations To US DOE On LNG Gas Export Facility Impact Analysis
*  [6/3/2024] News From PA House & Senate
*  [5/27/2024] Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities
*  [5/27/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 18 to 24 - 3 Abandoned, Plugged Shale Gas Wells Still Leaking Gas; 480 Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs
*  [5/27/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 25
*  [5/20/2024] DEP Imposed $2.2 Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018
*  [5/20/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 11 to 17; Lots Of Spills Week; 3 More Abandoned Shale Well NOVs; Well Shut In To Prevent Frack-Out
*  [5/20/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 18
*  [5/13/2024] We’ve Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History
*  [5/13/2024] DEP To Propose Changes To Coproduct Determination Process In Residual Waste Regulations; Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Tried To Use This Process To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater
*  [5/13/2024] Hundreds Of Residents Warn Against Impacts Of Shale Gas Development In Cecil Township, Washington County
*  [5/13/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 4 to 10 - 32 More Abandoned Conventional Well Violations; Failure To Cleanup Spills; Failure To Get Permits
*  [5/13/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 11
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 27 to May 3 - Hunting Abandoned Quaker State Wells; Conventional Well Dumpster Fire; Multiple Water Withdrawal Violations
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 4
*  [5/6/2024] Senate Republicans Pass Bill Authorizing An Authority To Take Over Permitting Large-Scale Energy Projects; Eliminating Public Comment; Waiving Any Regulation; Providing Immunity From Prosecution; Barbers Reviewing Permits?
*  [5/6/2024] Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Reports ZERO Shale Gas Well Permits Under Review; DEP May Have Only 20% Of The Revenue Needed To Fund Its Oil & Gas Regulation Program
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 20 to 26 - 2 Venting Shale Gas Wells; 16 More Conventional Abandoned Well Violations, 1 Shale Gas Well Abandonment
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 27
*  [4/22/2024] Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: The Case For An Immediate, Total Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [4/22/2024] April 25 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Advisory Council Meeting Features Discussion Of Dumping Wastewater On Public Roads; Well Plugging Grant Programs; Regs. Limiting Methane Pollution From Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 13 to 19 - Oil & Gas Well Owners Actively, Repeatedly Ignoring DEP Notices Of Violation; 12 Abandoned Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 20
*  [4/22/2024] PA Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Doubles-Down On Support For Exporting PA Natural Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor
*  [4/15/2024] Act 14: Little Known State Law Gives Municipalities, Counties First Chance To Comment On DEP Permits Before Applications Are Submitted; Critical First Step In Public Involvement
*  [4/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 6 to 12 - Rain Causes Multiple Landslides; Ignored Request To Clean Up Spill; Venting Gas
*  [4/15/2024] New Penn State Study Shows Continuous Radioactive Radium Exposure From Oil & Gas Wastewater Poses A Threat To Aquatic, Human Health As It Accumulates In Aquatic Species
*  [4/15/2024] Better Path Coalition Hosts April 19 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Justin Nobel On His New Book About Radioactive Waste From The Oil & Gas Industry
*  [4/15/2024] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Double 24-Inch, 14 Mile Long Gas Pipelines In Westmoreland County
*  [4/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 13
*  [4/15/2024] CNX Completing $20 Million Fresh Water Pipeline To Serve Future Shale Gas Drilling, And Potentially Local Communities As An Alternative To The Westmoreland Municipal Authority
*  [4/15/2024] CNX Expands Air Pollution Monitoring To More Shale Gas Well Pads, Compressor Stations Under The Collaborative Agreement With State
*  [4/15/2024] Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Official Joins Pittsburgh-based EQT In Saying We Have A 'Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor
*  [4/8/2024] Spotlight PA: Little Information Made Public About Free Water Testing Ordered As Part Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Settlement To Criminal Charges By Attorney General
*  [4/8/2024] Road Dumping Continues At Will As Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Reports Only 1 Shale Gas Well Permit Under Review Drastically Reducing The Revenue Needed To Run Its Entire Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [4/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 30 to April 5 - 19 Abandoned Well Violations; Venting Gas; Spills; No Containment; Erosion BMP Failures
*  [4/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 6
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets April 9 On ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Proposal; DEP Guidance On Building Pipelines
*  [4/1/2024] Republican Rep. Causer Blames DEP Database For Showing Conventional Oil & Gas Owners Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Owner Responsibility For Their Abandoned Wells
*  [4/1/2024] DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023
*  [4/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 23 to 29 - Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells, Waste Injection Wells; Failure To Stop Gas Venting
*  [4/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 30
*  [4/1/2024] CFA Awards Over $1 Million In Grants To Extend Natural Gas Service In Susquehanna, Warren Counties
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Reports The Number Of Methane Contaminated Water Supplies From Oil & Gas Drilling Is Up ‘Across The Board,’ ‘Not A Good Trend’
*  [3/25/2024] DEP: Shale Gas Drilling Resulted In 54 Incidents Of New Wells Interfering With Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Water Wells Or Other Shale Gas Wells In Last 8 Years
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Pursuing Federal Funding To Further Define Human Health Impacts Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [3/25/2024] Fayette County Commissioners Unanimously Pass Ordinance Restricting Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 16 to 22 - Truck Rollover; 12 More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Annual Reports; Another Chewed Wastewater Line Leaking
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 23
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone
*  [3/18/2024] Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage
*  [3/18/2024] US EIA Report Shows How Winter Storms Have Reduced US Natural Gas Production, But Disruptions Can Happen Any Time Of The Year
*  [3/18/2024] EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 9 to 15 - Home Explosion; 140 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Methane In Water Supply; Porcupine Causes Wastewater Spill
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Withdrawing Over 1.8 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 16
*  [3/18/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 30 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
*  [3/18/2024] Clean Air Council, Moms Clean Air Force, Earthworks Host March 20 Webinar On Federal Waste Oil & Gas Emission Charges
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Imposed $422,365 In Penalties On 14 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators In 2023 For Abandoning Wells, Spills, Venting Gas; 93 Operators Cited For Abandoning 271 Wells
*  [3/11/2024] New Reporting On The Uncontrolled Impacts Of Shale Gas Industry: The ‘Poisons Are Still Going Through My System;’ Roar, Fire From Gas Flares; Nothing Has Changed In 15 Years
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 2 to 8 - 119 Conventional Well Abandonment Violations; Pipeline Land Slips; Ignored Orders
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 9
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 19 On Drinking Water Supply Impacts From Drilling; New Financial Assurance Strategies To Prevent Abandonment; Draft Spill Policy; Injection Well Primacy; Much More
*  [3/11/2024] US Senators Introduce Bill To Ban US LNG Gas Sales To Any Entity Under The Control Of Communist China To Protect US Jobs; Americans From Price Spikes; EQT Says We Have A ‘Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China; Where Do AMERICAN Interests Lie?
*  [3/11/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: ‘Selling Oil And Natural Gas To China?’ ‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’
*  [3/11/2024] Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Exports Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence
*  [3/4/2024] PA Environmental Groups: New PUC Rules, DEP Guidance Victory For Increased Safety In Pipeline Construction And Operation
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 2
*  [3/4/2024] DEP: Clay-Like Material Polluting Marsh Creek Is Not Bentonite From Mariner East Pipeline Construction, But Naturally Occuring; Sunoco Cleanup Operation Finished
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 24 to March 1 - 11 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Field Of Leaking Wells; Voluntary Plugging; No Cleanup Progress In Reno Spill
*  [3/4/2024] Bloomberg: Gov. Shapiro Calls On Biden To Keep Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Short
*  [2/26/2024] Citizen Complaint Leads DEP To Breakout Of Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Mud That Contaminated The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County; Sunoco Pipeline Starts Cleanup
*  [2/26/2024] PUC Adopts Final Regulations Strengthening Operation, Construction Requirements For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Environmental Consideration In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Issues Chapter 105 Permit Correcting Violations By PA General Energy In Constructing The Shawnee Water Intake On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 24
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 17 to 23 -- 7 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Defective Casing From 2018; Mariner Pipeline Drilling Mud Breakout; Additional Shell Air Penalties; Water Supply Investigation
*  [2/26/2024] DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order
*  [2/26/2024] Western PA Residents Comment After A Year Of Shell Petrochemical Plant Operations
*  [2/26/2024] Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
*  [2/26/2024] PJM, Electric Grid Operators Recommend Additional Steps To Overcome Vulnerabilities In Natural Gas Infrastructure To Ensure More Reliable Grid Operation
*  [2/26/2024] PUC To Seek Comments On Proposed Regulation On Use Of Distributed Energy Resources And Virtual Power Plants
*  [2/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints
*  [2/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 17
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5 Million Gallon/Day Water Withdrawal For Shale Gas Drilling From Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County
*  [2/19/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: National Fuel Gas Lawsuit Alleges Fraud, Counterfeit Parts Used At Natural Gas Compressor Stations
*  [2/19/2024] Comments Invited On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Sets March 20 Hearing [If Requested] On Air Quality Permit Change For The Eastern Gas Transmission Punxsutawney Compressor Station In Jefferson County
*  [2/19/2024] DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Project To Expose 4 Natural Gas Pipelines For 5,500+ Feet Ahead Of Longwall Mining In Donegal Twp., Washington County
*  [2/19/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission March 14 Meeting On Rulemakings, Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit
*  [2/19/2024] PUC Now Accepting Comments On $250,000 Penalty Settlement With Peoples Gas On Natural Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County
*  [2/19/2024] PUC Invites Comments On Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Proposal To Construct 2 Solar Energy Facilities To Provide Electricity To Compressor Stations In Columbia, Wyoming Counties
*  [2/19/2024] Natural Gas Intelligence: 76% Increase In LNG Natural Gas Export Capacity Already Under Construction; US Group Fears Buildout Will Hurt American Businesses Urge ‘US Consumers First’ Policy
*  [2/19/2024] Bloomberg TV: Canada’s Energy Minister: Period Of Using Natural Gas As Transition Fuel Should Be Short; Gas Should Not Replace Renewables; Canada Has Adopted Controls On LNG Exports The US Has Not
*  [2/19/2024] Ohio River Basin Alliance, National Wildlife Federation Report Identifies Community Concerns, Priorities For Local Waters In Ohio River Watershed [Road-Dumping Drilling Wastewater]
*  [2/12/2024] Just 14 Days: PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 27 to Feb. 9 -- More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells; Spills, Venting Gas, Contaminated Water Supplies
*  [2/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 10
*  [2/12/2024] PA Utility Law Project, Public Citizen Host Feb. 16 Webinar Exploring The Impact Of LNG Natural Gas Exports On Pennsylvania Families
*  [2/12/2024] PJM Reports Natural Gas Power Plants Were Over Half The Forced Outages During Winter Storm Gerri In January; Special Procedures Used For Gas Generators Raised Questions About Market Impacts
*  [2/5/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3
*  [2/5/2024] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Feb. 13 To Discuss Guidance Limiting Impacts Of Pipeline Construction; Pipelines Needed For Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogen; Electrification
*  [1/29/2024] Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science
*  [1/29/2024] DEP To Require Unconventional Shale Gas Operators To Disclose Chemicals Used In Drilling, Fracking Operations Earlier In Well Drilling Process Thru PPC Emergency Plan Changes
*  [1/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining? What's That Pink Stuff?
*  [1/22/2024] DEP Releases Final Guidance On Environmental Considerations In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 20
*  [1/22/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit
*  [1/22/2024] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 25 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
*  [1/22/2024] Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities?
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued Record 6,860 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators In 2023-- Nearly 52% More Than In 2021; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [1/15/2024] 2023 Shale Gas Operator Compliance Report: 1,310 Violations; Explosions; Pad Fire, Evacuation; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack-Outs; Polluting Water Supply; Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home; More
*  [1/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips
*  [1/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 13
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Project To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining
*  [1/15/2024] Jewish Earth Alliance, Beth Am Israel Hosting Jan. 23 Online Program Rethinking Our Connection To Fossil Fuels - A Discussion
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Announces Over $12 Million In Watershed Restoration, Stormwater Infrastructure Grants Funded In-Part By Mariner East Pipeline Penalties, Federal American Rescue Plan Funding
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 30 to Jan. 3 - Saga Of Plugging Nancy 13; Conventional Well Emission Offsets; Venting Since June; Still No Well Integrity Reports
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Accepting Project Applications For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 30
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Invites Comments On A Permit For A Portion Of The NFG Midstream Covington 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline In Tioga County
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Reviewing Final Act 2 Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Dozens Of Chemicals At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Shale Gas Venting, Spills, Plugging Mess
*  [12/25/2023] Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond
*  [12/25/2023] CNX Resources Begins Disclosing General Information On Fracking Chemicals, Air Monitoring Results Online At 2 Shale Gas Well Pads
*  [12/25/2023] Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012
*  [12/25/2023] AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back
*  [12/25/2023] HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 23
*  [12/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests For Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
*  [12/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 32 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
*  [12/25/2023] PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec. 12 Home Explosion In Sewickley Heights, Allegheny County
*  [12/18/2023] Videos Now Available From PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Shale Gas & Public Health Conference; Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts
*  [12/18/2023] 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
*  [12/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 16
*  [12/18/2023] House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Expanding Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards; Renewables Lower Energy Costs; Increase Grid Reliability; More Work Needed To Improve Gas Reliability
*  [12/18/2023] PJM Makes Multiple Reliability-Focused Improvements To Prepare For Winter To Deal With 70% Natural Gas, Other Generator Nonperformance In 2022
*  [12/18/2023] CNX Ends Coordination On West Virginia Adams Fork Ammonia Energy Project, Anchor Of ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Application
*  [12/18/2023] Penn State Extension Webinar Dec. 21: Shale Gas Trends For Landowners, Growth & Land Leasing
*  [12/11/2023] DEP Expects $44 Million To Plug Conventional Wells Leaking Methane; $76 Million For 2nd Year Of Federal Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 9
*  [12/11/2023] PA Senate Hearing Focuses On Minimizing Risk And Harm In Development Of PA’s Hydrogen Infrastructure
*  [12/11/2023] Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec. 13
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Reduction Program; Spill Policy; Chapter 78 Update; Certified Inspector Program; Injection Well Primacy
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 - 13 More Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs; Failure To Report Water Supply Impact In July
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 2
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Mining Damage In Washington County
*  [12/4/2023] EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old
*  [12/4/2023] PUC Again Reminds Consumers Of Dec. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% to -25.7%)
*  [12/4/2023] Sen. Gene Yaw Announces He Received The Marcellus Shale Coalition 2023 Shale Gas Advocate Award [After Calling Gas Infrastructure Health, Safety Proposal ‘Stupid’]
*  [11/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 18 to 24 - 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 2nd Spill At Same Shale Gas Pad This Month; Village Of Reno Wastewater Cleanup Slow Going
*  [11/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 25
*  [11/27/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 19 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
*  [11/27/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Business Meeting Dec. 14 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
*  [11/20/2023] State Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issued At Least 472 Violations To 90 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators; 20 NOVs To 10 Shale Gas Operators For Abandoning Their Wells Without Plugging Them So Far In 2023
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issues Record 5,653 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators So Far In 2023; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [11/20/2023] Shale Gas Operators On Track To Have More Violations In 2023 - Frozen Gas Infrastructure; Explosion; Pad Fire; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack Outs; Major Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home Highlight 2023 So Far
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 11 to 17 -- 37 Conventional Abandoned Wells; 1,260+ Shale Gas Spill; 1,000 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill In State Park; Rager Mtn Gas Storage Still Not Cleaned Up
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Danco Industries Petroleum Contaminated Wastewater Treatment Facility In Venango County
*  [11/20/2023] Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant
*  [11/20/2023] PUC Alert: Dec. 1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% to -25.7%)
*  [11/20/2023] PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Overview Reports Now Available; But Do Not Address Winter Storm Elliot Issues
*  [11/13/2023] New NERC Winter Reliability Assessment Finds Elevated Risk Of Blackouts In Extreme Weather Conditions; Natural Gas Supplies Still Vulnerable To These Conditions With 'Devastating Consequences'
*  [11/13/2023] PUC Begins Process To Explore Rulemaking Related To Use Of Distributed Energy Resources And 'Virtual' Power Plants
*  [11/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads
*  [11/13/2023] Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro Must Acknowledge Health Risks Of Natural Gas Development And Take Meaningful Action To Protect The Public
*  [11/13/2023] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: Gov. Shapiro's Announcement With CNX Does Not Go Far Enough In Protecting Public Health And The Environment From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/13/2023] TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses'
*  [11/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11
*  [11/13/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Columbia County Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Compressor Station Air Quality Permit And Will Hold A Hearing Dec. 19 - If One Is Requested
*  [11/13/2023] PUC Seeks More Information On Peoples Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County That Damaged Hundreds Of Appliances, Caused Distribution Pipeline Leaks
*  [11/13/2023] Black Appalachian Coalition Urges Allegheny County Health Dept. To Hold US Steel Accountable, Protect Community Health, From Clairton Coke Works
*  [11/13/2023] National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
*  [11/13/2023] House Committees Hold Hearings On Hydrogen Hubs, Appliance Energy Efficiency; Consider Bills Increasing Recycling Fee, Study Solar Energy On Farms
*  [11/13/2023] News From PA House & Senate
*  [11/6/2023] House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setback Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts; From Physicians On Health Studies; The Gas Industry On Job Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Sen. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Called Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’
*  [11/6/2023] Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
*  [11/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 - Fire At PA General Energy Shale Gas Well Pad; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Replugging Shale Gas Well
*  [11/6/2023] Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County
*  [11/6/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check
*  [11/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4
*  [11/6/2023] University Of Pittsburgh Studies Of Shale Gas Development Health Impacts To Be Discussed At Nov. 14 Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board
*  [11/6/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [11/6/2023] Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Issues Report On The Best Ways To Increase Exports Of PA's Natural Gas; Minority Report Rebuts Need For LNG Facility, Outlines Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Protect PT Holds Nov. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County
*  [11/6/2023] PUC Issues Emergency Order To PA American Water To Operate Troubled East Dunkard Water Authority In Greene County; Lawsuit Filed Alleging Water Tainted By Mine Drainage, Shale Gas Operations
*  [10/30/2023] House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Infrastructure Based On Latest Science, Grand Jury Report
*  [10/30/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [10/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator
*  [10/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28
*  [10/23/2023] Gov. Shapiro: We Need Stronger Laws To Deal With The ‘Corporate Greed’ That Let Oil & Gas Operators Get Away With Abandoning Wells For Far Too Long
*  [10/23/2023] FracTracker Alliance Recognizes 5 Individuals With The 2023 Community Sentinel Awards - 3 From Pennsylvania
*  [10/23/2023] 9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’
*  [10/23/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 14 to 20 - 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Conventional Gas Migration Incident; Inactive Shale Gas Wells
*  [10/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 21
*  [10/23/2023] Senate Committee Briefing Finds No Definition Or Standard For ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Natural Gas; PA Producers Already Below One RS Threshold
*  [10/23/2023] PUC Safety Division Investigating Columbia Gas Service Disruptions To 4,000+ Customers In Beaver County
*  [10/23/2023] PUC Updates Investigation Into Dec. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County
*  [10/23/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 2 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
*  [10/23/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 19 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
*  [10/23/2023] House Committee Reports Out Cryptocurrency Mining Bill Without Permit Moratorium; Resolution To Encourage Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools; Hearing On Gas Facility Setbacks Oct. 30
*  [10/23/2023] PEMA Now Accepting Letters Of Interest For FEMA Flood Mitigation & Building Resilient Infrastructure And Communities Grant Programs
*  [10/23/2023] Protect PT, Partners Host Oct. 26 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania's Oil & Gas Production
*  [10/23/2023] Environmental Advocates To Spend More Than $250,000 In Support Of McCaffery In Critical PA Supreme Court Race To Protect Constitutional Right To Clean Air, Pure Water
*  [10/16/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Invites Comments At Nov. 14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County
*  [10/16/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14
*  [10/16/2023] PJM Interconnection Formally Files Changes To Electric Capacity Market Rules With FERC Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
*  [10/16/2023] Better Path Coalition: Oct. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure
*  [10/16/2023] DOE Awards Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Hub In Western PA, Renewable/Nuclear Power-Based Hydrogen Hub In Eastern PA; Reactions
*  [10/16/2023] DEP Extends Public Comment Period On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy To Nov. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings
*  [10/9/2023] Dickinson College Environmental & Indigenous Rights Honoree Tara Houska: Don’t Disconnect Yourself From The Reality Of Nature; Endless Expansion Of Pipelines Have No Place In Reality; Find Powerful Moments Of Joy
*  [10/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 -- Company Tries To Limit DEP Investigation; Unauthorized Water Withdrawals; Can’t Pay For Reno Cleanup; Venting Gas Wells; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [10/9/2023] DEP Invites Comments On PA General Energy Constructing 3 Shale Natural Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
*  [10/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 7
*  [10/9/2023] DCNR Announces Appointment Of Seth Cassell As Pennsylvania's 18th State Forester
*  [10/9/2023] Center For Rural Pennsylvania: Rural Population To Shrink 5.8%; Fewer Young People, More Older People; Current Policies Failed To Sustain Communities, Ensure Long-Term Rural Resiliency
*  [10/2/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?
*  [10/2/2023] Environmental Health Project: How DEP Issues Permits For Shale Gas Facilities Without Considering Cumulative Impacts - How New Facilities Will Add To Existing Pollution Loads And Impact The Area
*  [10/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 30
*  [10/2/2023] Member Of Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Briefs DCNR Advisory Council On Siting Of Shale Gas Well Pad On State Forest Land To Accommodate Taking Gas From Private Land In Tioga County
*  [10/2/2023] Gettysburg Times: DCNR Secretary Dunn Stresses Connection Between Community And Protection Of Natural Resources Giving People ‘A Sense Of Place’ That Makes PA Unique
*  [10/2/2023] PJM Interconnection Board Proposes Market Reforms Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
*  [10/2/2023] PJM Interconnection Files Proposed Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Electric Generators With FERC, Requests Final Action By Dec. 29
*  [10/2/2023] PUC Investigating Delaware County Natural Gas Pipeline Leak, House Explosion And Evacuation Of 100+ People
*  [10/2/2023] The Conservation Fund, DCNR Add 436 Acres Of Forest Land To Pinchot State Forest In Lackawanna County With Financial Support From Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Company
*  [9/25/2023] Senators Santarsiero, Comitta To Introduce Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites From 500 To 2,500 Feet, Based On Latest Science
*  [9/25/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 16 to 22 - 2nd Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
*  [9/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 23
*  [9/25/2023] PUC To Seek Public Comment On Proposed $100,000 Penalty Settlement With Mifflin Energy Corp. For Natural Gas Explosion Destroying Home/Business In Greene County
*  [9/25/2023] Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. 28 Webinar Updates Public On Efforts To Reduce Methane, Other Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry Infrastructure - Shale Gas & Conventional Wells
*  [9/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 8 Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawals - 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Home To The Hellbender
*  [9/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 34 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
*  [9/25/2023] Game Commission Board OKs More Shale Gas Drilling In Lycoming County, Home To The Hellbender, And Sullivan County
*  [9/25/2023] FracTracker Alliance Now Accepting Nominations For 2023 Community Sentinel Award
*  [9/25/2023] DEP To Increase Monitoring, Develop Surface Water Standard For PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' After Study Shows 76% Of Streams, Rivers Contained At Least One Of These Chemicals
*  [9/25/2023] DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water Leading Shale Gas Operators To Use Contaminated Water In Fracking Operations; DEP Doesn’t Require Routine PFAS Testing
*  [9/25/2023] DEP: York County Moved To Drought Warning; 19 Counties Still In Drought Watch
*  [9/25/2023] Dickinson College Will Host An Evening With Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska On Her Groundbreaking Advocacy Work Oct. 4
*  [9/18/2023] Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week
*  [9/18/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 9 to 15; First Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? Another Leaking Equitrans Storage Well; Plugging Grant Twp. Injection Well
*  [9/18/2023] Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights
*  [9/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 16
*  [9/18/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For A Texas Eastern Pipeline Project Going Under The Schuylkill River In Chester, Montgomery Counties
*  [9/18/2023] Oil Region National Heritage Area To Hold 2nd Oil Heritage Energy Security Conference Oct. 12-13 In Venango County
*  [9/11/2023] KDKA: Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Crashes Into, Thru Westmoreland County Home And A Loophole In State Law That Doesn’t Regulate Gathering Pipelines For Safety
*  [9/11/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 2 to 8; Equitrans Issued NOVs For Failing To Provide DEP Inspectors Access To Facilities As Requested
*  [9/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 9
*  [9/11/2023] DEP: Preliminary Test Results Not Indicative Of Stray Gas Migration Cause Of Plum Boro Home Explosion In Rustic Ridge Allegheny County
*  [9/11/2023] PUC: No Evidence Public Utility Natural Gas Equipment Caused 2022 Hialeah Dr. Home Explosion In Plum Boro, Allegheny County
*  [9/11/2023] State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
*  [9/11/2023] DEP Provides Oil & Gas Advisory Board With Updates On Well Plugging Financial Assurance; Pitt Health Studies; Funding Options For Program; Civil Penalty Policy
*  [9/11/2023] Republican Rep. Krupa Introduces HB 1656 To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
*  [9/11/2023] DEP Hosts Sept. 29 Online Training On New Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Guidance
*  [9/11/2023] Legal Victory Puts Hellbender Back On Track For Federal Endangered Species Protection
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept. 16
*  [9/4/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Give Teeth To DEP Environmental Justice Policy
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Proposed Permit Fee Changes; Well Plugging Financial Assurances To Prevent Abandonments; Environmental Justice Policy; Injection Well Primacy
*  [9/4/2023] Between The Lines Podcast: Pediatrician Dr. Ned Ketyer Explains The Results Of New Studies Of The Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Development On Children And Adults
*  [9/4/2023] The Center Square: State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
*  [9/4/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 26 to Sept. 1-- Uncontrolled Venting Of Shale Gas Well; 4,600 Gallon Spill Of Shale Gas Wastewater; Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Barely Begins
*  [9/4/2023] PUC Safety Division Continues Investigation Into Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [8/28/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 26
*  [8/28/2023] PUC Approves 2 Penalty Settlements With Columbia Gas Totaling $1.525 Million For A House Explosion In Washington County, 2 Natural Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Incidents In Franklin, Clarion Counties
*  [8/28/2023] US DOT Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Announces Proposed Rules To Reduce Risk Of Natural Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Incidents, Explosions
*  [8/28/2023] Shapiro Administration Secures Methane Detectors For Neighborhood In Plum Boro, Allegheny County Where Home Exploded
*  [8/28/2023] On Demand: ReImagine Appalachia Faith In Action: Environmental Justice For All - Ensuring Equity And Benefits Across Our Most Climate-Impacted Communities
*  [8/21/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Studies Find Shale Gas Wells Can Make Asthma Worse; Children Have An Increased Chance Of Developing Lymphoma Cancer; Slightly Lower Birth Weights
*  [8/21/2023] State Dept. Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’
*  [8/21/2023] Post-Gazette Editorial: Who Pays For Natural Gas Development’s Harm? Pennsylvania Should Acknowledge The Clear Fact That Fracking Has Hurt People, Specifically Children
*  [8/21/2023] The Derrick: DEP Issues Order To Petro Erie, Inc. To Restore Village Of Reno Water System, Cleanup Contamination Caused By Its Conventional Well Wastewater Release; 1 Month Without Clean Water
*  [8/21/2023] DEP Investigating Other Possible Sources Of Methane As Part Of Response To Plum Borough Home Explosion, Including Nearby Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [8/21/2023] Public Utility Commission Safety Investigation Ongoing Following Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [8/21/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 12 to 18; DEP Orders Restoration Of Water Supply; Conventional Wells Abandoned; Leaking Methane, Fluids
*  [8/21/2023] DEP, SRBC Invite Comments On New Permits For PA General Energy Shawnee Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal On The Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County After Failure To Comply With Its First Permit
*  [8/21/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 19
*  [8/21/2023] New DEP Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy, Definition Of Environmental Justice Areas Effective Sept. 16; Public Comments Accepted Thru Oct. 29
*  [8/21/2023] DCNR: New Budget Follows Thru On Commitments To Protect State Parks & Forests And Spur Economic Development Thru Outdoor Recreation
*  [8/14/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
*  [8/14/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Accepting Comments On 2 Major Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream Natural Gas, Water Pipeline Projects Impacting EV, HQ Streams, Wetlands In Westmoreland County
*  [8/14/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 12
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. 2025
*  [8/7/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills
*  [8/7/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 5
*  [7/31/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
*  [7/31/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 15 to 22; 8 More New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/31/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 29
*  [7/31/2023] DCED Gives UGI Utilities A $501,136 Grant For A New Natural Gas Pipeline To Serve Little Leaf Greenhouse In Carbon County
*  [7/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 22
*  [7/24/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Aug. 10 Hearing On Proposed Water Withdrawals, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Drilling Operations, 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek
*  [7/24/2023] Governor’s Regulatory Agenda: DEP To Propose Annual Permit Fee For Unconventional Shale Gas Operations; Updated Waste, Other Regulations Covering Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Coming
*  [7/24/2023] PJM Interconnection Reports Higher Percentage Of Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation Outages Than Originally Thought During Winter Storm Elliott - 70%
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Secretary Negrin To Citizen Activists: ‘We Don’t Represent Chevron, We Don’t Represent Shell And I’ve Made That Absolutely Clear-- We’re Holding Those Leaders Accountable’
*  [7/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells
*  [7/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 15
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Invites Comments On CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water/Wastewater Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Greene County
*  [7/17/2023] EQB No Longer Has Statutory Authority To Change Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts To Help Prevent 400 to 600 New Well Abandonments A Year; Adopts Proposed Changes To Water Quality Standards For Comment
*  [7/17/2023] DEP Posts Draft Final Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis; Will Discuss At Agricultural Advisory Board Meeting July 18
*  [7/17/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Do Oil & Gas Drillers Owe Taxpayers Royalties For Oil & Gas Under Roads, Streets, Bridges And Other Taxpayer-Owned Land?
*  [7/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 1 to 7; New Brownfield Cleanups; Shale Gas Well Plugging Picks Up; New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 8; New Brownfield Cleanups Increase
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Sets Aug. 23 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit Revisions For Artemas Natural Gas Compressor Station In Bedford County
*  [7/3/2023] House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On Bills Increasing Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities, Cryptocurrency Permit Moratorium
*  [7/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [7/3/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 1
*  [7/3/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 11 On Programs To Promote Use Of Electric Vehicles; Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis
*  [7/3/2023] Pennsylvania Groups Call For Transparency With State Plans For Carbon Capture, Storage
*  [6/26/2023] 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station
*  [6/26/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional Wells; Frack Out Investigation
*  [6/26/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 24
*  [6/26/2023] House Environmental Committee Holds June 27 Meeting On Bills Increasing Setback Distances From Natural Gas Infrastructure, 2-Year Moratorium On Cryptocurrency Air Permits
*  [6/26/2023] Senate Committee Meets June 26 To Consider Nomination Of Richard Negrin As DEP Secretary; Energy Information Office, Electric Billing Legislation
*  [6/26/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
*  [6/26/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 32 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Liberty Midstream Project To Expose 1 Mile+ Of 2 Natural Gas Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Washington County
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits
*  [6/19/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 17
*  [6/19/2023] PUC Vice Chairman: During Winter Storm Elliot We Learned Natural Gas Can Be An Intermittent Generator Of Electricity Just Like Renewables
*  [6/19/2023] S&P Global: Federal Inquiry Finds Same 3 Causes Driving U.S. Generate Outages In Extreme Cold - Reliability Of Natural Gas System Remains A Concern
*  [6/19/2023] PUC Releases Summer Readiness Reports From Electric Utilities - Adequate Capacity And Supply To Meet Summer Energy Needs
*  [6/12/2023] Federal Court Declines To Prohibit PA Environmental Hearing Board From Hearing Appeals Of DEP Permits Issued For Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline Project
*  [6/12/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Info Session On Carbon Capture Discusses Job Potential; Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Goal; Impacts/Risks Of The Technology; PA’s Poor Track Record In Regulating Pipelines, Oil & Gas Industry
*  [6/12/2023] Penn State Extension Hosts Virtual Fundamentals Of Carbon Capture And CO2 Flooding Workshop June 27
*  [6/5/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3
*  [5/22/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
*  [5/15/2023] Penn State Shale [Gas] Network Workshop Features Acting DEP Secretary Richard Negrin May 18-19 In State College
*  [5/15/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13
*  [5/15/2023] Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad
*  [5/15/2023] Harrisburg University Research Cited By 2 Federal Agencies In New Regulations To Fight Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [5/8/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
*  [5/8/2023] Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills
*  [5/8/2023] Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA
*  [5/8/2023] EDF: Federal Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Proposes Vital Standards to Enhance Safety, Cut Methane From Nation’s Pipeline Network
*  [5/8/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6
*  [5/8/2023] Environmental Groups Circulate Petition Asking Dept. of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [5/8/2023] DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. of Health, CDC Launch Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
*  [5/8/2023] Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [5/8/2023] Senate Hearing: Wholesale Electricity Prices Too Low To Support Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants In Market; Natural Gas Reliability Issues Will Continue
*  [5/8/2023] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA Host May 10 Webinar: Imagine A More Natural PA - How We Use Methane Gas, What It's Doing To Us
*  [5/1/2023] Dickinson College To Recognize Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska With Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism
*  [5/1/2023] House Hearing: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells
*  [5/1/2023] EDF: Pennsylvania Has 55,000 Oil/Gas Wells At High Risk Of Being Abandoned; 51,000 Wells At Risk Of Being Transferred To Low Solvency Owners; Current Conventional Well Owners Abandon 561 Wells A Year, On Average
*  [5/1/2023] Guest Essay: Conventional vs Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells - Not As Different As You Might Think
*  [5/1/2023] House Committee Meets May 2 On Bill To Restore Authority To Review Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging Bonding Amounts; Help Prevent Routine Abandonment Of An Average Of 561 Wells A Year
*  [5/1/2023] Republican Herald Editorial: Implement Reforms For Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking
*  [5/1/2023] Delaware River Basin Commission Clarifies New Regulations On Oil/Gas Fracking Wastewater Bans Road Spreading, Disposal From Conventional Wells
*  [5/1/2023] DEP Tentatively Sets May 18 Online Public Conference On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County; Opponents Again Call For Robust Public Participation Process
*  [5/1/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
*  [5/1/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 29
*  [5/1/2023] Eyes On Shell Reports Shell Petrochemical Plant Fenceline Monitors Found Benzene Emissions Above Toxic Substances Limits; No Timeline For Restarting Plant; DEP Issued Another NOV For Air Violations
*  [5/1/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Holds May 1 Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability Looking At Natural Gas, Other Generation Failures During Winter Storm Elliot In December
*  [5/1/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
*  [4/24/2023] New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study
*  [4/24/2023] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
*  [4/24/2023] PA Supreme Court Upholds DEP’s Authority To Protect Public Resources, Playgrounds From Adverse Impacts Of Shale Gas Well Operations; Do Not Mistake This Win For Adequate Protection
*  [4/24/2023] Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands
*  [4/24/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets April 24 Hearing On Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; New Bill Restores Authority To Increase Conventional Well Bonding
*  [4/24/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22
*  [4/24/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Local Leaders, DOT Must Stop Plant In Wyalusing, Bradford County From Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail Or Truck Or Both To Philadelphia
*  [4/24/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 39 Water Use Permits For Shale Gas Well Drilling Pads In Bradford, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wyoming Counties
*  [4/24/2023] Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Significantly Lower Water Flow May Have Long-Ranging Ripple Effect For Aquatic Resources, Recreational Use
*  [4/24/2023] Intense, Bright White Light From The Shell Plastics Plant Turns Night Into Day For Many Neighbors Of The Beaver County Plant
*  [4/17/2023] Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
*  [4/17/2023] Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas; Same Facility Plagued Community With Blowdowns 3 Times A Day, 7 Days A Week For Nearly 10 Years Until Criminal Charges Brought Against CNX
*  [4/17/2023] DEP/Equitrans Settlement: DEP, Preempted By Federal Law, Withdraws Order, Closes NOVs Against Equitrans For Cambria County Natural Gas Storage Leak Releasing 1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
*  [4/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 15
*  [4/17/2023] Independent Regulatory Review Commission Meets April 20 On Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
*  [4/17/2023] The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
*  [4/17/2023] DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
*  [4/10/2023] House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report
*  [4/10/2023] New University Of Chicago Medical Study Connects Natural Gas Development In PA To Real, Serious Human Health Outcomes And Should Be A Call To Action For Policy Makers
*  [4/10/2023] Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA
*  [4/10/2023] Moms Clean Air Force: Strong Proposed EPA Petrochemical Plant Rules Are One Step Closer To Reality; Shell Petrochemical Plant Covered By Separate Proposed Rule
*  [4/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
*  [4/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
*  [4/3/2023] PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages
*  [4/3/2023] PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines
*  [4/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands
*  [4/3/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1
*  [3/27/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
*  [3/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 25
*  [3/27/2023] Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County
*  [3/27/2023] Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen -- Like With Natural Gas Infrastructure Today
*  [3/20/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
*  [3/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 18
*  [3/20/2023] Commonwealth Court Rules PUC Is ‘Obligated’ To Conduct An Environmental Review Of Projects By The Environmental Rights Amendment In Case Involving A PECO Natural Gas Pumping Station In Delaware County
*  [3/20/2023] Equitrans/DEP In Discussions To Resolve EHB Appeal Of DEP’s Order To Fix Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Area Conventional Access Wells
*  [3/20/2023] Federal Court Rules Challenge To DEP Air Quality Permit For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Quakertown Compressor Station May Go Forward
*  [3/20/2023] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
*  [3/20/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Renewals For 7.1 Million Gallons/Day
*  [3/20/2023] Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Council, Environmental Health Project Sponsor Ad Campaign To Finalize Strong EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emission Limits To Protect PA's Health & Climate
*  [3/20/2023] March 29 Southeastern PA Town Hall Meeting In Chester County To Focus On Health, Environmental Impacts Of Fossil Fuels
*  [3/13/2023] The Guardian: One Of The Worst Global Methane Leaks In 2022 Was In PA - Equitrans In Cambria County; Routine Abandonment, Non-Compliance Of Conventional Gas Wells
*  [3/13/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Methane Overflight Research Study Resulted In Voluntary Reductions In Oil & Gas, Landfill Facilities; Coal Industry Uncooperative
*  [3/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 13 To Hear Updates On Regulation Of Natural Gas Storage Areas, Chapter 78 Regs; Federal Well Plugging Program, Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Development
*  [3/13/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 16 On 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses; 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Transfer
*  [3/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
*  [3/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4
*  [3/6/2023] Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas
*  [3/6/2023] Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bills On Decommissioning Solar Energy Facilities, Limiting 1 Use Of PFAS Chemicals, Resolution Calling For Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
*  [3/6/2023] Senate Republicans, 4 Democrats Pass Resolution Urging Restart Of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Abandoned By Company [BTW Not In PA]
*  [2/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 25
*  [2/27/2023] Guest Essay: Forestall Or Foresee - The Energy Transition And The Pennsylvania Legislature
*  [2/27/2023] PA Supreme Court Sides With Citizens, Landowner Not Sunoco Pipeline On Reimbursing Legal Costs For Lawsuits Won By Citizens
*  [2/27/2023] Senate Committee Meets Feb. 27 On Decommissioning Solar Energy Facilities, Limiting 1 Use Of PFAS Chemicals, Resolution Calling For Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
*  [2/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 18
*  [2/20/2023] DEP Approves Permits For Transcontinental Gas Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project in Luzerne, Northampton, Bucks, Chester, Monroe Counties
*  [2/20/2023] York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network: 100,000+ Pro-Life Evangelicals Support Strong Oil & Gas Facility Methane Limits
*  [2/13/2023] Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High
*  [2/13/2023] DCED Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting Agenda Includes Discussion Of Poor Compliance Record Of Industry, Status Of Regulations Updates, Challenge To VOC/Methane Regs
*  [2/13/2023] Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Pipeline Explosions, Uncontrolled Releases Put Spotlight On Public Health, Safety Threats Posed By Petrochemical, Natural Gas Industrial And Pipeline Infrastructure In PA
*  [2/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [2/13/2023] Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
*  [2/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 11
*  [2/13/2023] PUC Approves 48.9% Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties-- The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA
*  [2/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 4
*  [1/30/2023] Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
*  [1/30/2023] House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
*  [1/30/2023] DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
*  [1/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 21 to 27
*  [1/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units Up To 100 Million Btu/Hour; Benefits Oil & Gas Industry
*  [1/23/2023] Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
*  [1/23/2023] DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [1/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21
*  [1/23/2023] York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters
*  [1/23/2023] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Diesel Mining Equipment Bill, Postpones Resolution On Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
*  [1/16/2023] Fish & Boat Commission Investigation Of Pollution From PA General Energy Natural Gas Development Construction Site On Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek Results In Settlement Agreement
*  [1/16/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13
*  [1/16/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 14
*  [1/16/2023] American Petroleum Institute Unveils Plan To Prioritize U.S. Natural Gas And Oil; Target Northeast U.S. For Pipeline Development
*  [1/16/2023] EQT, Chesapeake, Equitrans Shale Gas Companies Announce Methane Reduction Initiatives
*  [1/16/2023] Better Path Coalition Outlines Needed Environmental, Climate Policy Changes For Incoming Shapiro Administration
*  [1/16/2023] Groups Host Jan. 17 Webinar On Climate & Health Impacts Of Methane Gas From Oil & Gas Operations
*  [1/9/2023] Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
*  [1/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
*  [1/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 7
*  [1/9/2023] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 10 To Hear Overview Of Stream Redesignation Process, Including High Quality, Exceptional Value Streams; But What About Protection?
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industry Has Record Year: Cost, Criminal Convictions Up; $3.1 Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts
*  [1/2/2023] DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’
*  [1/2/2023] Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [1/2/2023] Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, North American Electric Reliability Corp. To Open Joint Inquiry Into Winter Storm Elliott
*  [12/26/2022] Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue
*  [12/26/2022] Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction
*  [12/26/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long
*  [12/26/2022] Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry
*  [12/26/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
*  [12/26/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/26/2022] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Oil & Gas Development, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Water Withdrawal Requests
*  [12/26/2022] PJM Interconnection ‘Possibility Of Rotating Customer Outages Is Real’ - A Mix Of Power Plants In The System Are ‘Not Performing’ - Filing DOE Emergency Power Request [Request Ended]
*  [12/26/2022] UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints [Request Ended]
*  [12/19/2022] AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
*  [12/19/2022] Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
*  [12/19/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 10 to 16
*  [12/19/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/19/2022] Presentations Now Available From Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov. Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health
*  [12/19/2022] EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions
*  [12/19/2022] Ohio River Valley Institute Decarbonization Pathway Relies On Zero Emissions Resources, Energy Efficiency, Increased Electrification, Is Less Costly Than Natural Gas, Carbon Capture Options
*  [12/12/2022] Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
*  [12/12/2022] PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations
*  [12/12/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
*  [12/12/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/12/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year
*  [12/5/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
*  [12/5/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/28/2022] EQB To Meet Nov. 30 To Consider Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
*  [11/28/2022] EDF Blog: What A Catastrophic Natural Gas Leak In Pennsylvania Means For Our Climate And Health
*  [11/28/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
*  [11/28/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/28/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Announces 7 Winners Of 2022 Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship; Including PA’s Laurie Barr
*  [11/28/2022] Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign
*  [11/28/2022] Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 7 On Shale Gas Fracking Wastewater Regulations
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
*  [11/28/2022] NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds
*  [11/28/2022] Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry
*  [11/28/2022] Better Path Coalition Invites Submissions For ‘Worth Protecting’ Photo Book For New Governor, Legislators
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties
*  [11/21/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
*  [11/21/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities
*  [11/21/2022] IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
*  [11/21/2022] Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard
*  [11/21/2022] Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step
*  [11/14/2022] What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
*  [11/14/2022] Observer-Reporter: Ongoing Water Donation Drive Helping Dozens Of Greene County Families Who Haven’t Had Clean Drinking Water Since June Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site
*  [11/14/2022] NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
*  [11/14/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/14/2022] DEP Issues Revised Chapter 102 Permit For Mariner East II Pipeline Post Construction Stormwater Management BMPs In Delaware County
*  [11/14/2022] Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov. 21
*  [11/14/2022] Reuters: Williams Urges FERC To Approve Regional Energy Access Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Affecting 6 Counties In PA
*  [11/14/2022] FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov. 14 Webinar On Protected Zones: Setbacks From Oil & Gas Facilities In California, Colorado, PA
*  [11/14/2022] Interested In Becoming A Master Watershed Steward? Penn State Extension Holding Information Sessions For Areas Across The State Starting In December
*  [11/14/2022] PUC Launches Review Of Utility Cybersecurity Regulations, Seeks Comments On Potential Enhancements And Revisions
*  [11/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
*  [11/7/2022] York Dispatch Editorial: Energy Companies Are Reporting Record Profits, PA Lawmakers Don’t Need To Give Them More Tax Breaks
*  [11/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Again Fails To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding; Fails To Report On Bonding Petitions; Or Issue Conventional Drilling Compliance Report
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [11/7/2022] Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
*  [11/7/2022] On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
*  [11/7/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Estimates CY 2022 Drilling Impact Fee Will Generate Record $274.8 Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record
*  [10/31/2022] Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
*  [10/31/2022] Citizens Voice Editorial: State Insists On Paying Polluters
*  [10/31/2022] DEP: PA General Energy Cited For More Water Pollution Violations, Blocking The Whole Width Of Loyalsock Creek At Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
*  [10/31/2022] DCNR Leased 176 Acres Of Susquehanna River Submerged Land To SWN Natural Gas Production Company In Susquehanna County For $704,000
*  [10/31/2022] Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group: Potential Impacts Of Shale Gas Development Forest Fragmentation On Tioga State Forest Birds
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/31/2022] A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates
*  [10/31/2022] Scranton Times/Republican Herald Editorial: Legislators Like Plastics, Expect More
*  [10/31/2022] PUC Approves 9% Increase In The Basic Monthly Bill For Typical PECO Natural Gas Division Customers; On Top Of An 103.2% Increase In Cost Of Natural Gas
*  [10/31/2022] National Fuel Gas Requests PUC To Approve 9.2% Increase In Base Delivery Charge; Separate Cost Of Gas Up 127.8% Since May 2021
*  [10/24/2022] NO SPECIAL PROTECTION: The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek In Lycoming County Is Dammed And Damned
*  [10/24/2022] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules
*  [10/24/2022] DEP/SRBC Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/24/2022] TribLive Editorial: State Fines Should Be Higher Than Tax Cuts To Penalize Environmental Leaks
*  [10/24/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: State Lawmakers Should Adopt Rules That Preclude State Taxpayers From Subsidizing Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry
*  [10/24/2022] Penn State's Jenn Baka Receives National Science Foundation Grant For A 5-Year Study Of The Shell Ethane Plant's Environmental And Human Impacts In Beaver County
*  [10/24/2022] Southwestern PA Grassroots Town Halls Hosts Oct. 24 Virtual Program On Eyes On Shell Ethane Plant Campaign In Beaver County
*  [10/24/2022] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. 15-16
*  [10/24/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: Dangerous Course For Oil & Gas Well Emissions, Obstructionists Should Get Out Of The Way
*  [10/24/2022] Senate Committee Reported Out Bill To Deny Counties Drilling Impact Fee Revenue If Only 99% Of The Land In Their County Available For Shale Gas Leasing; Other Bills
*  [10/24/2022] Senate Committee To Hold Oct. 27 Hearing On The Role Of LNG In U.S. Energy Security On World Stage
*  [10/17/2022] DEP: Shell, Pipeline Contractor Assessed $670,000 Penalty For Falcon Ethane Pipeline Construction Violations In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [10/17/2022] Conservation Groups Urge DEP To Deny Transco Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality Watersheds In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
*  [10/17/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/17/2022] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 3 Hearing On Water Withdraws, Including 3 Natural Gas Development Proposals
*  [10/17/2022] Environmental Health Project Blog: 7 Questions You Should Ask Every Candidate About Shale Gas Development And Public Health
*  [10/17/2022] Oct. 25 Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
*  [10/10/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/3/2022] DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County
*  [10/3/2022] DEP/Susquehanna River Basin Commission Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/3/2022] Final Reg. Reducing Methane From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities NOT On Environmental Quality Board Agenda For Oct. 12; Will Consider Final PFOS/PFOA MCL Rule
*  [10/3/2022] FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For 2022 Community Sentinel Awards
*  [9/26/2022] Study: Industry Data Shows Hazardous Air Pollutants Are ‘Ubiquitous’ In The Natural Gas Transmission System; More Justification For Robust Leak Prevention Programs
*  [9/26/2022] House Committee Fails To Address $70 Million In Penalties On Natural Gas Pipelines Or Real Concerns Of People Living Near Gas Production & Distribution Facilities
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/26/2022] Gov. Wolf Touts PA's Leadership In Clean Energy Transition At Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh
*  [9/19/2022] DEP, Fish & Boat Commission Investigate Multiple, Continuing Water Pollution Discharges From PGE Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Site On Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
*  [9/19/2022] Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/19/2022] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host Nov. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [9/19/2022] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
*  [9/19/2022] Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [9/19/2022] PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Professional Development Webinar Oct. 18 - Setback Distances For Unconventional Shale Gas Well Pads - How Close Is Too Close?
*  [9/19/2022] American Lung Association Report Details Health And Environmental Impacts Of Fuel-Burning Appliances At Home
*  [9/19/2022] Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 19 Info Meeting On Carbon Capture Technology
*  [9/12/2022] Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County
*  [9/12/2022] House Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 20 ‘Wellhead To Stovetop’ Hearing On Natural Gas In PA; Will They Mention $70 Million In Pipeline Penalties Assessed So Far?
*  [9/12/2022] Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipelines Are NOT Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/12/2022] WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas
*  [9/12/2022] Explainer: So Why Does A Susquehanna County Gas Company Have To Raise Rates 33.2% When Susquehanna County Is The #1 Shale Gas Producer In PA?
*  [9/12/2022] Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 5 In-Person, Virtual Public Meeting On PA Health Studies Of Natural Gas Development In Southwest PA
*  [9/12/2022] New Book Edited By Researchers From 3 Pittsburgh Universities Now Available On The Environmental Impacts From The Development Of Unconventional Oil & Gas Reserves
*  [9/12/2022] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
*  [9/5/2022] Clean Air Council Celebrates Joseph Minott's 40 Year Commitment To Leading The Council, And To The Environment
*  [8/29/2022] Creating New Brownfields: Oil & Gas Well Drillers Notified DEP They Are Cleaning Up Soil & Water Contaminated With Chemicals Harmful To Human Health, Aquatic Life At 272 Locations In PA
*  [8/29/2022] DEP To Hold Oct. 5 Virtual Hearing On Proposed Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Regional Energy Access Expansion Project In Eastern PA
*  [8/8/2022] AG Shapiro: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Convicted Of Criminal Charges Related To Construction Of Mariner East 2 & Revolution Natural Gas/Liquids Pipelines In PA
*  [8/8/2022] Sunoco Fails To Meet July 1 Cleanup Deadline For Mariner East Pipeline Spill In The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County
*  [8/1/2022] Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
*  [8/1/2022] AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine
*  [7/18/2022] Bradford Era: 24-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Ruptures, Explodes In McKean County Causing Wildfire; Force Majeure Declared In 2 States
*  [5/2/2022] House Republicans Move Solar, Wind Bonding Bill; Fail To Plug The $1.8 Billion Hole In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Opposed Regs Making Natural Gas Pipelines Safer, Reducing Methane Emissions
*  [4/25/2022] DEP Formally Publishes Notice Of Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan Approval
*  [4/18/2022] DEP, Others Recommend Ways To Strengthen PUC Regulations On Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipeline Safety; Oil, Gas, Pipeline Industry, Unions Oppose New Rules
*  [4/11/2022] DEP Approves Sunoco's Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan
*  [4/4/2022] Republican Chair Of House Environmental Committee Believes Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure Projects ‘Just Need To Be Ignored And Politically Ran Over’
*  [4/4/2022] Majority Chair Of Senate Committee Calls Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure ‘Radical Environmentalists,’ Arguments By Supporters Of RGGI ‘Hysteria’
*  [4/4/2022] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: ‘Drillers Continue To Return Cash To Shareholders… Rather Than Boost Production’
*  [4/4/2022] Republicans On House Committee Move Bills To Unleash Natural Gas Industry In Pennsylvania, Kill RGGI
*  [3/28/2022] Republican House Bill Contains Natural Gas Industry Wish List Of Measures To Expand Natural Gas Drilling, Subsidize Pipeline Expansion, Automatically Approve Well Permits, Preempt Local Governments
*  [3/28/2022] Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
*  [3/28/2022] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: U.S. - European Commission Agreement Calls For Reducing Demand For All Natural Gas And Accelerating Deployment Of Clean Energy Measures
*  [3/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Technical Guidance On Trenchless Pipeline Construction
*  [3/14/2022] AP: PUC Judge: Sunoco/Energy Transfer Failed To Protect Delaware County Community During Construction Of Mariner East Pipeline, $51,000 Penalty Proposed
*  [3/14/2022] PA Supreme Court To Decide If The Owner Of Mariner East Pipelines - Sunoco/Energy Transfer - Must Pay Attorneys Fees In Legal Challenges They Lost To Citizens Or Will Taxpayers
*  [3/7/2022] Senate Budget Hearings: PA’s Experience With New Pipeline Construction Shows State Laws Not Strong Enough To Prevent Environmental Damage, Protect Public Safety
*  [3/7/2022] FracTracker Alliance Holding 3 Webinars On Using Maps & Data To Empower Action Starting March 8
*  [3/7/2022] Register Now For 2022 Shale Network Workshop In State College May 12-13
*  [3/7/2022] PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; True Energy Independence
*  [2/14/2022] PUC Invites Public Comments On Enhancements To Regulation Covering Petroleum & Hazardous Liquids Pipelines
*  [2/14/2022] Environmental Hearing Board Strengthens DEP’s Clean Streams Law Complaint Investigation Process
*  [2/7/2022] AG Shapiro Charges Energy Transfer Partners With Environmental Crimes Over Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion
*  [2/7/2022] DEP To Hold March 8 Virtual Hearing On Sunoco Pipeline Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For Marsh Creek Lake Remediation, Chester County
*  [2/7/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Sunoco Pipeline LNG Pumping Station Air Permit In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
*  [2/7/2022] PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Feb. 9 Webinar On Methane Emissions And Our Health
*  [1/31/2022] Commonwealth Financing Authority OKs $3.2 Million For 3 Natural Gas Pipeline Extension Projects
*  [1/10/2022] Chester County Residents Protest Mariner East Pipeline Construction
*  [12/20/2021] DEP Issues Revised Erosion Control Permits For PA Pipeline/Mariner East Pipeline Segments In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [12/13/2021] Sunoco/Mariner East Pipeline To Pay $4 Million In Damages And Restore Lake At Marsh Creek State Park Polluted By A Spill In Chester County
*  [12/13/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Renewal Permits For Rights Of Way In 15 Counties
*  [11/22/2021] PUC Imposes $1 Million Penalty On Energy Transfer Company For 2018 Revolution Pipeline Explosion In Beaver County
*  [11/22/2021] PUC Orders More Than A Dozen Actions To Improve Safety In Construction, Operation Of Mariner East Pipelines; Sunoco Must Pay $2,000 Penalty
*  [11/15/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East II Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Application In Delaware County
*  [11/15/2021] PUC Seeks Members To Serve On PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee
*  [11/1/2021] Guest Essay: Heed The Warning - A Few Extremists Threaten PA's Energy Leadership
*  [10/25/2021] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To NPDES General Permit For Testing Of Tanks & Pipelines
*  [10/25/2021] Delaware RiverKeeper Applauds Federal Court Action To Vacate Rollback Of Section 401 Federal Clean Water Act Reviews
*  [10/11/2021] AG Shapiro Charges Mariner East Pipeline With 48 Counts Of Environmental Crimes In 11 Counties
*  [10/11/2021] Attorney General Shapiro's Statement Announcing 48 Environmental Criminal Charges Against The Mariner East Pipeline In 11 Counties
*  [10/11/2021] Sen. Comitta Calls For Halt To Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Light Of Criminal Charges By Attorney General
*  [10/11/2021] PA Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Challenge To Ruling Denying Environmental Groups Attorney's Fees In Successful Appeal Of Energy Transfer/Sunoco Mariner East Pipeline Permit
*  [10/11/2021] PA Consumer Advocate: Heating With Natural Gas Will Cost Residential Consumers About 20% More This Winter; No Impact On PA Consumers Of PennEast Pipeline Cancellation
*  [10/11/2021] FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship
*  [10/4/2021] Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Told A Federal Court Sunoco Cannot Hide Risk Assessment Data For Its Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [10/4/2021] Senate Committees Hold Oct. 4 Hearing On Failure To Invest In PA’s Natural Gas Infrastructure; Set After PennEast Announced NJ Part Of Its Project Would Not Go Forward, But PA Part Might
*  [9/6/2021] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $62,650 In Penalties
*  [8/23/2021] DEP Collects $85,000 Penalty For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, Lebanon Counties
*  [8/23/2021] PUC Seeks Comments On Proposed Changes To Safety Regulations For Customer-Owned Natural Gas Pipeline System Service Lines
*  [8/23/2021] Save PA’s Forests Coalition Hosts Aug. 25 Webinar On Watersheds And Wilderness At Risk From Natural Gas Development
*  [8/23/2021] House Environmental Committee Fails To Discuss Poor Compliance, Record $55 Million In Penalties Imposed On Natural Gas/Hazardous Liquid Pipelines In Last 5 Years
*  [8/16/2021] Sen. Muth, Rep. Friel Otten: One Year After Mariner East Pipeline Spill 33 Acres Of Marsh Creek State Park Lake Is Still Off Limits, No Remediation Done
*  [8/16/2021] DEP Collects $140,000 Penalty From ETC Northeast Field Services For Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
*  [8/9/2021] Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipelines Are NOT Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone
*  [8/9/2021] House Environmental Committee Sets Aug. 17 Hearing On Environmental, Economic Benefits Of Pipelines; DEP/PUC Fined Pipelines Over $55 Million For Violations Over Last 5 Years
*  [7/19/2021] PUC To Seek Public Comment On Enhancements To Regulation Covering Petroleum & Hazardous Liquids Pipelines
*  [6/7/2021] DEP Publishes Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Revolution Pipeline In Western PA
*  [5/30/2021] PUC: Utilities Encouraged To Use Cybersecurity Best Practices Following Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Cyber Attack
*  [5/30/2021] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $34,750 In Penalties For Violations
*  [5/10/2021] Bay Journal: PA Natural Gas Industry Embarrassed By 3 Environmental Scandals In 15 Months
*  [5/10/2021] DEP: June 16 Virtual Hearing On Mariner East Pipeline Water Quality Permit Changes In Chester County Related To Marsh Creek Lake Spill
*  [5/3/2021] PUC: Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $44,750 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
*  [4/26/2021] Chester County District Attorney Files Civil Complaint Against Sunoco/Energy Transfer On Mariner East Pipeline To Address Environmental Violations
*  [4/26/2021] CFA OKs $4.4 Million In Grants For 5 Natural Gas Service Pipeline Projects
*  [4/19/2021] PUC Judge’s Opinion Orders Sunoco To Improve Public Safety, Emergency Outreach Measures, Rebury Pipelines Related To Mariner East Pipeline Project, Full PUC Approval Needed
*  [3/22/2021] Environmental Groups Petition PA Supreme Court To Overturn Ruling Denying Attorney’s Fees In Successful Challenge To Mariner East Pipeline Permit
*  [3/15/2021] Dickinson College Clarke Forum Hosts Renowned Poet, Award-Winning Photographer To Discuss Project Documenting Fracking On March 25
*  [3/15/2021] Registration Now Open For 2021 Shale Network Workshop May 13-14
*  [3/15/2021] Better Path Coalition Hosts Environmental Health News ‘The Body Burden Of Living Near Fracking’ Reporter In March 24 Webinar
*  [3/8/2021] DEP Order Requires Payment Of $125,000 Penalty For Latest Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
*  [3/1/2021] DEP Collects $497,000, Fish & Boat Commission Collects $25,855 In Penalties For Latest Violations Involving Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In Lebanon County
*  [1/11/2021] 38 Environmental Groups Urge DEP To Deny PennEast Pipeline Permits In Advance Of Jan. 13 DEP Hearing
*  [1/4/2021] CBF: Pennsylvania's Clean Water Wins, Whiffs And Wishes For 2020 And Beyond!
*  [1/4/2021] DEP Sets Jan. 13 Virtual Hearing On Chapt. 102/105 Permits For Phase I PennEast Pipeline Project
*  [12/21/2020] PUC Bureau Of Investigation Proposes $1 Million Penalty For Multiple Violations That Led To Explosion Of Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline In Beaver County
*  [12/21/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas FM 100 Natural Gas Pipeline Project In Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, McKean, Potter Counties
*  [12/14/2020] Energy Transfer Partners Files Appeal Of DEP Order To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Section Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Energy Transfer Partners Erosion & Sedimentation Permits For Revolution Pipeline Slope Failure Fixes
*  [12/14/2020] DEP Sets Jan. 13 Virtual Hearing On Chapt. 105 Waterways Permit For Phase I PennEast Pipeline Project
*  [11/16/2020] DEP Orders Energy Transfer Partners To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Sections Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
*  [11/9/2020] DEP Provides Notice Of Appeal Rights On Section 401 Approval For Leidy South Gas Pipeline Project In Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Wyoming Counties
*  [11/2/2020] PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $120,000 In Penalties For Violations
*  [10/19/2020] PUC Seeks Nominations For PA One Call Underground Utility Damage Prevention Committee
*  [10/12/2020] DEP: Columbia Gas Will Pay $156,000 Penalty For Pipeline Construction Violations In Greene County
*  [10/12/2020] Clean Air Council Files Intent To Sue Sunoco Over Mariner East II Pipeline Construction Permits
*  [10/12/2020] 28 Environmental Organizations Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permit For Lebanon County Spills
*  [10/12/2020] New Trees Are Healing North Harford Maple Farm From Abandoned Constitution Natural Gas Pipeline Clearcut In Susquehanna County
*  [10/5/2020] DEP Settlements Impose Total Of $427,650 In Penalties On EQM For Pipeline Construction Violations in Greene, Washington, Westmoreland Counties
*  [9/28/2020] DEP Collects $736,000 From TransCo For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Violations In 9 Counties
*  [9/28/2020] PUC Orders Sunoco Pipeline L.P. To Conduct Public Education & Awareness Meeting In Cumberland County
*  [9/28/2020] DEP OKs Permit Changes For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Delaware, Chester Counties
*  [9/28/2020] PUC's Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $72,750 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
*  [9/21/2020] Senate/House Bills Moving Last Week
*  [9/14/2020] DEP Orders Sunoco To Reroute 1+ Mile Of Mariner East Pipeline, Investigate Chester County Marsh Creek Lake Spill, Restore Impacted Resources
*  [9/14/2020] How Long Must The Public Wait For Action On Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Bills?
*  [9/7/2020] DEP Provides Notice Of Appeal Rights On Permits For Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project
*  [8/31/2020] Mariner East Pipeline Can Resume Construction In Chester County Under Temporary Supercedeas Granted By Environmental Hearing Board
*  [8/31/2020] 31 Environmental, Conservation Groups Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permits
*  [8/31/2020] DEP Accepting Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Conemaugh River Crossing, Compressor Station Replacement Projects
*  [8/24/2020] DEP Assesses $355,000 Penalty On Sunoco For 2018, 2019 Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations
*  [8/24/2020] Legislators Issue Call For Revocation Of Mariner East Pipeline Permits In Chester County
*  [8/17/2020] Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Stopped Indefinitely At Site Of Leak Into Marsh Creek State Park Lake, Chester County; Pipeline Company Will Be Held Accountable
*  [8/17/2020] Clean Air Council: Another Spill From Construction Of Sunoco's Mariner East II Pipeline In Chester County
*  [8/17/2020] FERC Schedules Virtual Hearings On Regional Transco Pipeline Project To Identify Issues To Be Included In An Environmental Assessment Starting Aug. 18
*  [7/27/2020] DEP: CNX Gas Pays $310,000 Penalty For Violations During, After Pipeline Construction In Washington County
*  [7/27/2020] AG Shapiro Charges National Fuel Gas Supply, Subcontractor With Environmental Crimes Related To Pipeline Construction In Washington County
*  [7/27/2020] PUC: PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $80,750 In Penalties For Violations
*  [7/20/2020] PUC: Pipeline Safety Investigation Underway Involving Sunoco Pipeline Under Construction In West Whiteland Twp., Chester County
*  [7/20/2020] Senate Committee Moves Bill Requiring Pipeline Companies To Make Emergency Plans Available
*  [7/20/2020] Delaware RiverKeeper Files Legal Challenge To Section 401 Federal Clean Water Act Permitting Rollback
*  [7/20/2020] CFA Awards Over $1 Million In Pipeline Investment Program Grants In Monroe, Snyder Counties
*  [7/6/2020] Federal Appeals Court Stops FERC's Inappropriate Use of Tolling Orders In Pipeline Cases, Gives Landowners Back Their Rights
*  [6/22/2020] Damage Prevention Committee Fines Underground Facility Owners, Excavators and Project Owners $119,000 For Violations
*  [6/8/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Delaware RiverKeeper Slam EPA Rule Limiting Section 401 Water Quality Reviews Of Pipeline, Other Projects
*  [6/8/2020] Chesapeake Bay Foundation Condemns Trump Order Undermining NEPA, Endangered Species Reviews Of Pipeline, Other Projects
*  [5/25/2020] Sen. Yaw: NY/NJ Rejection Of PA Natural Gas Pipeline Aids Foreign Producers, At Same Time Governor Wants To Join RGGI
*  [5/25/2020] PUC Approves 2nd Order On Reporting Integrity Of Sunoco's Mariner East 1 Pipeline, Leaves $200,000 Penalty In Place
*  [5/25/2020] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $39,250 In Penalties
*  [5/18/2020] DCED Awards $3.2 Million In Grants To Extend Natural Gas Service In 5 Counties
*  [4/20/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas Pipeline Project In Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk McKean, Potter Counties
*  [4/6/2020] Delaware RiverKeeper, Groups Submit Report To FERC Saying Up To 3,000 New Gas Wells Needed To Feed PennEast, Adelphia Pipelines
*  [4/6/2020] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Takes 51 Enforcement Actions For Violations
*  [3/23/2020] April DEP Hearings CANCELED On Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion, Water Encroachment Permits In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [3/16/2020] CANCELED: Senate Appropriations Committee Holds Hearing On Pipeline Investment Program March 24
*  [3/16/2020] CANCELED: Senate, House Policy Committees To Hold Hearing March 25 On Grow PA Infrastructure, Education, Health Care Innovations
*  [3/16/2020] CANCELED: DEP Has Scheduled 3 Hearings On Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion, Water Encroachment Permits In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [3/16/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Adelphia Pipeline Project
*  [3/9/2020] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets March 17 On New Pipeline Construction Guidance, Act 54 Report On Damage Caused By Deep Coal Mining, Chapt. 105 Alternatives Analysis
*  [3/9/2020] PUC Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $110,575 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
*  [3/2/2020] PUC Requires Remaining Life Study, Public Reporting On Integrity Of Sunoco's Mariner East I Pipeline; Issues $200,000 Penalty
*  [2/24/2020] DEP Issues Permits To Sunoco For Changes To Mariner East II Pipeline Construction In Blair, Perry Counties; 2nd Pipeline In Berks County
*  [2/24/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Adelphia Gateway Natural Gas Pipeline Project Erosion & Sedimentation Permit
*  [2/10/2020] Delaware RiverKeeper Testifies Before Congress On Needed Natural Gas Act/FERC Reforms
*  [2/3/2020] PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline Seeks FERC Approval To Build PA Part First
*  [2/3/2020] Environmental Groups Back Bucks County Township's Appeal Of Pipeline Compressor Station Air Permit
*  [1/27/2020] AG Shapiro Joins Other Attorneys General In Filing Brief Supporting Lancaster County Landowners In Challenge Of FERC Pipeline Tolling Order Process
*  [1/27/2020] PA, National Environmental Groups File Brief In Federal Court Challenging FERC Use Of Tolling Orders To Put Citizen Challenges To Actions In Legal Limbo
*  [1/27/2020] CFA Awards 4 Natural Gas Pipeline Service Extension Grants Totalling $2.3 Million In Chester, Monroe, Northampton Counties
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Issues $1.95 Million Penalty To Sunoco For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations At Raystown Lake, Huntingdon County
*  [1/20/2020] PA AG Shapiro, 15 Other State Attorneys General Object To Shipping Liquefied Natural Gas By Rail
*  [1/20/2020] DEP: Chapter 102 E&S Permit Application Received For Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project In Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery Counties
*  [1/20/2020] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For 2 Dominion Energy Pipeline Projects In Beaver, Lawrence, Westmoreland Counties
*  [1/13/2020] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Discuss Draft Horizontal Drilling Pipeline Construction Guidance Document, Stakeholder Report
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Issues $30.6 Million Penalty Over ETC Revolution Pipeline Explosion Violations; Lifts Permit Bar
*  [1/6/2020] Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Legislation Highlighted By PUC Administrative Law Judge Decision In Mariner East I Pipeline Leak
*  [1/6/2020] DEP Invites Comments On Leidy South Natural Gas Pipeline Project E&S Permit In Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill Counties
*  [1/6/2020] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $124,725 In Penalties
*  [12/23/2019] Public Utility Commission Highlights 2019 Accomplishments And Programs
*  [12/23/2019] PUC Announces Appointments To PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee
*  [12/16/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East Pipeline Chapter 102/105 Permit Revisions For Construction In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [12/9/2019] Chester County DA Charges Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline, Security Firms With Bribery, Conspiracy Regarding Mariner East Pipeline
*  [12/9/2019] PUC Work Group On Lead Water Line & Damaged Wastewater Line Replacement Meets Dec. 19
*  [12/9/2019] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $83,975 In Penalties
*  [11/25/2019] DEP Notice Of Chapter 102/105 Permit Revisions Submitted For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [11/25/2019] Law Firm Files Shareholder Lawsuit Against Energy Transfer/Sunoco Saying They Allegedly Misled Investors About Possible Misconduct Involving Mariner East Pipelines
*  [11/18/2019] AP: FBI Opens Corruption Investigation Into How Wolf Administration Approved Mariner East Pipelines
*  [10/28/2019] New Trout Unlimited Report Documents Repeated Pollution Events During Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In PA, Central Appalachia
*  [10/28/2019] AG Shapiro, 22 Other AGs Oppose EPA’s Proposed Rule To Limit States’ Clean Water Act Oversight Of Pipelines, Other Projects
*  [10/28/2019] Commissioners Welcome Ralph Yanora To Public Utility Commission
*  [10/21/2019] PUC Administrative Judge Holds Hearings On Mariner East Pipeline Safety Oct. 23 & 24 In West Chester
*  [10/14/2019] Senate Bill Creates Higher Penalties For Trespass Involving Pipelines, Critical Infrastructure; Companion To Bill Making Protesters Responsible For Response Costs
*  [10/14/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification For Tri-State Corridor Pipeline In Washington County
*  [10/7/2019] PUC Recognizes Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Outlines Ongoing Efforts To Safeguard Critical Utilities
*  [9/30/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For Leidy South Pipeline Project Thru 6 Counties From Clinton To Schuylkill
*  [9/30/2019] PUC Seeking Nominations For PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee
*  [9/30/2019] Environment & Energy NewsClips
*  [9/22/2019] PUC Dismisses Complaint Filed By Sen. Dinniman Against Mariner East Pipelines Per Court Order, But Continues Proceedings On Related Complaints
*  [9/22/2019] CFA Awards 3 Grants Totaling $2.8 Million To Extend Natural Gas Service Pipelines In Bradford, Lancaster, and Lebanon Counties
*  [9/16/2019] PUC Investigating Subsidence Involving Several Pipelines Near Site Of Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In Delaware County
*  [9/16/2019] DEP Orders Sunoco To Cover Exposed Natural Gas Liquids, Other Petroleum Pipelines At 43 Locations Across The State
*  [9/16/2019] Court: Sen. Dinniman Did Not Have Standing To Bring A Complaint To PUC Over Mariner East Pipeline Construction Failures
*  [9/16/2019] Op-Ed: Pennsylvanians Had Landmark Opportunity To Strengthen Pipeline Safety Rules
*  [9/9/2019] Briefing: Good, Bad & Ugly Environment & Energy Bills In The PA House, Senate
*  [9/2/2019] PUC Extends Comment Period On Enhancements To Pipeline Safety Regulations To Sept. 11
*  [9/2/2019] DEP Issues Sunoco $319,461 In Penalties For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In 2017, 2018; Fines Now Total $13 Million+
*  [9/2/2019] PUC Approves Settlement Allowing Bi-Directional Operation Of Laurel Pipeline
*  [9/2/2019] PUC PA One Call Compliance Committee Imposes $47,250 In Penalties For Violating Excavation Rules Near Pipelines, Other Underground Utilities
*  [8/26/2019] House Committee Hears Call For More State Authority To Approve Pipeline Routes In Hearing On Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Legislation
*  [8/26/2019] DEP Terminates Some Permit Review, Inspection Authority Delegated To Beaver Conservation District
*  [8/26/2019] Environmental Groups Praise DEP For Revoking Beaver Conservation District's Authority Over Pipeline Permits, Call For More Action
*  [8/26/2019] Reps. Comitta, Howard Tour Mariner East 1 Pipeline Site In Chester County With Gov. Wolf, DEP
*  [8/26/2019] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [8/19/2019] FracTracker Alliance Report Catalogs Land Impacts Of Unconventional Gas Drilling In Pine Creek Watershed, Northcentral PA
*  [8/19/2019] Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Consider Mariner East 2 Pipeline Violations Settlement Agreement Sept. 6
*  [8/19/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposal To Issue Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For PennEast Pipeline
*  [8/19/2019] House Emergency Preparedness Committee To Hold Aug. 21 Hearing On Pipeline Safety Legislation
*  [8/12/2019] How Long Must The Public Wait For Action On Bipartisan Pipeline Safety Bills? New Pipeline Bill Introduced
*  [8/12/2019] Clean Air Council Calls For Shutdown Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline After Chester County - Backfire
*  [8/12/2019] PennFuture Blog: The Problem With Natural Gas, Oil Pipelines
*  [7/29/2019] DEP Provides Notice Of Pending Permit Applications, Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas FM100 Pipeline Project, Elk & Jefferson Counties
*  [7/22/2019] PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $44,150 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
*  [7/22/2019] CFA Provides Grants To Subsidize Extension Of Natural Gas Service In Butler, Crawford, Northampton Counties
*  [7/1/2019] PUC Opens Comment Period On Enhancements To Pipeline Safety Regulations, Additional Financial Reporting
*  [7/1/2019] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Enters Into $18,500 Settlement With Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline
*  [7/1/2019] PUC PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $180,850 In Penalties For Violations
*  [6/23/2019] Senate Committee Reports Out Bills To Improve Pipeline Emergency Response
*  [6/17/2019] PUC Seeks Comments On Enhancements To Pipeline Safety Regulations, Additional Financial Reporting
*  [6/17/2019] New Jersey Conservation Foundation Report: Impact Of Natural Gas Pipelines In Delaware River Watershed
*  [6/10/2019] New Senate Bill Would Require End Of Life Pipeline Studies To Spot Corrosion, Damage Issues To Prevent Catastrophic Failures
*  [6/10/2019] EPA Issues New Guidance On State Use Of Section 401 Water Quality Certifications For Pipelines, Energy Projects
*  [6/3/2019] House Hearing Highlighted Need For Planned Public Safety Response To Pipelines
*  [6/3/2019] EPA Issues Low-RVP Gasoline Waiver For Allegheny County Due To A Failure In The Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
*  [6/3/2019] DEP Proposes To Issue Water Quality Certification, Chapter 102, 105 Permits For West Loop Natural Gas Pipeline In Beaver, Lawrence Counties
*  [6/3/2019] PUC Investigation Of Natural Gas Explosion In Clarion County Includes Nearby Pipelines
*  [6/3/2019] PUC Underground Utility Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $78,700 In Penalties For Violations
*  [5/27/2019] CFA Approves 2 Grants Totaling Over $676,000 To Extend Natural Gas Service In Crawford, Wayne Counties
*  [5/20/2019] DEP Orders Energy Transfer To Restore Waterways Impacted During Construction Of Revolution Pipeline In 4 Counties
*  [5/13/2019] Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Renomination Of McDonnell As DEP Secretary With Favorable Recommendation
*  [5/6/2019] PUC's PA One Call Enforcement Committee Imposes $57,775 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
*  [4/29/2019] PUC Refuses Sunoco Request To Resume Construction Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Chester County
*  [4/29/2019] PUC Investigating Subsidence Near Sunoco Mariner East 2 Bypass Pipeline In Delaware County
*  [4/29/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To Mariner East 2 Pipeline Erosion Permit In Cambria County
*  [4/29/2019] Coalition Of Businesses Oppose Latest Plan To Make Laurel Pipeline Bi-Directional
*  [4/22/2019] Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Gives PUC Notice It Will Restart Mariner East 1 Pipeline Monday
*  [4/22/2019] PUC Investigation Finds No Petroleum Pipeline Leak In Berks County
*  [4/22/2019] Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill To Ban Sale Of PA Natural Gas To States That Impede Pipeline Development
*  [4/15/2019] PUC Pipeline Safety Division Investigates Harrisburg House Explosion; Hershey Gas Line Hit Probe Continuing
*  [4/15/2019] PUC Marks Safe Digging Month; Highlights Actions Of PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee
*  [4/8/2019] $200,000 Penalty Proposed In PUC Settlement Of 2017 Mariner East 1 Pipeline Leak Case
*  [4/8/2019] Rep. Quinn Introduces Bipartisan Package Of Pipeline Bills To Regulate Routes, Emergency Plans And More
*  [4/8/2019] PUC Safety Engineers Probe UGI Natural Gas Distribution Line Hit In Hershey
*  [4/1/2019] Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction To Go Right Through Girls Softball Field, Threaten Season In Chester County
*  [4/1/2019] Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Impose 2 Year Moratorium On Hazardous Liquids Pipeline Approvals
*  [4/1/2019] House Committee To Hold Hearing On Public Safety Of Natural Gas Pipeline Systems May 30
*  [4/1/2019] $3 Million In Natural Gas Pipeline Extension Project Grants Approved By CFA
*  [4/1/2019] PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $75,000 In Penalties
*  [4/1/2019] Penn State Extension: April 25 Webinar On Horizontal Drilling And Pipeline Construction
*  [4/1/2019] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [3/25/2019] PUC Pipeline Safety Investigation Underway Involving Possible Sunoco Gasoline Pipeline Leak In Berks County On March 17
*  [3/25/2019] Dueling Press Conferences Pit Opponents Of Mariner East Pipeline Against Those Supporting Pipeline Development
*  [3/18/2019] Attorney General, Delaware County DA Conducting Joint Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines
*  [3/18/2019] 14 Senate, House Members Ask Gov. Wolf To Halt Mariner East Pipeline Operations Until Safety Protocols Are In Place
*  [3/18/2019] Senators Killion, Dinniman Introduce Resolution Forming Senate/House Commission To Make Recommendations To Improve Pipeline Safety, Construction Practices
*  [3/18/2019] DEP Proposes Water Quality Certification For Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project In Eastern PA
*  [3/18/2019] Proposed Water Quality Certification Published For Columbia Case East & West Pipeline Project, Armstrong, Butler, Clarion Counties
*  [3/11/2019] DEP Assesses $1.5 Million Penalty Against Beta Trunk Pipeline For Unstable Slope, Construction Violations In Greene County
*  [3/11/2019] Sen. Dinniman, Rep. Friel Otten, Groups Hold Pipeline Safety Rally March 19 In Harrisburg; Pipeline Safety Caucus Formed
*  [2/25/2019] PUC Seeks To At Least Double Pipeline Safety Inspectors Over Next 5 Years
*  [2/18/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification, Permits For PennEast Pipeline Project
*  [2/18/2019] House Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 20 On Forge The Future Economic Development Report
*  [2/11/2019] DEP Puts Indefinite Hold On Reviewing Permits For All Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Projects In PA
*  [2/11/2019] Gov. Wolf: Urges General Assembly To Fill Gaps In State Regulation Of Pipelines
*  [2/11/2019] CANCELED-UC Underground Utility Line, Pipeline Damage Prevention Committee Meets Feb. 12
*  [2/4/2019] Gov. Wolf Proposes A $4.5 Billion, 4-Year Restore Pennsylvania Community & Environmental Infrastructure Investment Program
*  [2/4/2019] Chester County Developer Files Lawsuit To Force Mariner East Pipeline Off Its Property Citing Expiring Easements
*  [2/4/2019] Op-Ed: Citizens Are Heroes In Flight For Pipeline Safety
*  [1/28/2019] PUC Investigation Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline Sinkhole In Chester County Shifts To Geological Testing
*  [1/28/2019] Chester County DA Says His Investigation Of Mariner East Pipelines Is Widening And Deepening After Latest Sinkhole Found
*  [1/28/2019] Rep. Comitta, Sen. Killion Host Public Meeting Jan. 31 On Mariner East Pipeline Safety Concerns
*  [1/21/2019] Post-Gazette: PUC Rejects Emergency Shutdown Request For Mariner East Pipelines; Full Case Will Move Forward
*  [1/21/2019] Post-Gazette: DEP Says Energy Transfer LP Not Complying With Order To Stabilize Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Site
*  [1/21/2019] DEP Invites Comments On Federal Coastal Zone Consistency Determination For The Adelphia Pipeline Gateway Project In Delaware County
*  [1/21/2019] DEP Re-Publishes Notice Of Final Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas Line N To Monaca Pipeline, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [1/14/2019] DEP Posts Formal Notices Of Permits Issued To Shell Ethane Pipeline
*  [1/14/2019] Delaware Riverkeeper Appeals Denial Of Challenge To DEP Water Quality Certification For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline To U.S. Supreme Court
*  [1/14/2019] DCNR Leases Youghiogheny River Streambed Crossing To Chevron For $975,600 In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties
*  [1/7/2019] Senators Killion, Dinniman Introduce Comprehensive Bipartisan Pipeline Bill Package
*  [1/7/2019] PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Takes Enforcement Action Against 42
*  [1/7/2019] FERC Issues Environmental Assessment For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Project Finding No Significant Impact
*  [12/31/2018] PUC Reminds Stakeholders Nominations For PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Due Jan. 18
*  [12/31/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For National Fuel Gas Line N To Monaca Pipeline, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [12/31/2018] PA’s Most Penalized, Controversial Natural Gas Pipeline Now In Service- Mariner East 2
*  [12/24/2018] Chester County District Attorney Opens Criminal Investigation Into Mariner East Pipeline Construction
*  [12/24/2018] Chairman Gladys Brown Highlights 2018 PUC Accomplishments, Programs
*  [12/24/2018] DEP Approves Shell Falcon Ethane Pipeline Permits In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [12/24/2018] Report: Investment In Natural Gas Pipelines, Infrastructure To Remain Strong Through 2035
*  [12/24/2018] Game Commission, Conservation Fund, Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Partnership Conserves 752 Acres In Sullivan County
*  [12/17/2018] PUC Judge Denies Petition For Emergency Order To Shutdown Interim Plan To Ship Natural Gas Liquids Through Mariner East Pipelines
*  [12/17/2018] PUC Enforcement Bureau Proposes $225,000 Penalty For 2017 Ethane/Propane Leak From Mariner East 1 Pipeline In Berks County
*  [12/17/2018] Conservation Partners, Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Funds Protect 77 Acres In Berks County
*  [12/10/2018] PA Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Case Challenging Use Of Eminent Domain By Mariner East 2 Pipeline, But A Challenge Remains
*  [12/10/2018] Williams To Hold Public Meetings On Proposed Leidy South Natural Gas Pipeline Dec. 11 Lycoming County, Dec. 12 Clinton County, More
*  [12/10/2018] PUC To Livestream Dec. 11 PA One Call Pipeline, Utility Damage Prevention Committee Meeting
*  [11/26/2018] PUC Announces PA One Call Enforcement Actions For Hitting Pipelines, Utilities During Construction
*  [11/19/2018] DEP Fines EQT $294,000 For Release Of 4 Million Gallons Of Abandoned Mine Drainage Into Monongahela River
*  [11/19/2018] National Fuel Gas Company Accepts EPA Methane Challenge
*  [11/19/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [11/12/2018] First Meeting Of PA One Call Underground Utility Damage Prevention Committee Held
*  [11/5/2018] DEP Inspections Find Unreported Landslides On Right-Of-Way Of Newly Constructed Revolution Pipeline In Western PA, Compliance Order Issued
*  [11/5/2018] Trout Unlimited Hosts Nov. 16 Webinar On Ecological Impacts Of Delaware River Basin Natural Gas Pipelines & New Interactive Map Tool
*  [11/5/2018] 2 Dec. 4 Hearings On 2 New Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Compressor Stations In Bucks, Delaware County
*  [10/22/2018] DEP: 61 Watershed Restoration, Stormwater Projects Totaling $12.6 Million Funded By Mariner East 2 Pipeline Penalty
*  [10/22/2018] Delaware, Chester Citizens Group Releases Final Risk Assessment Report On Mariner East Pipelines
*  [10/22/2018] Trout Unlimited’s New Tool For Pipeline Siting Considerations In The Delaware River Basin
*  [10/15/2018] Business Groups Call For PA Energy Czar To Take Advantage Of Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Resources
*  [10/8/2018] Senators To Introduce Bipartisan Pipeline Siting Bill, 4 Other Pipeline-Related Bills Now On Senate Calendar
*  [10/8/2018] Videos Of Presentations From 2018 Schuylkill River Watershed Congress Now Available
*  [10/8/2018] DEP Announces Revised General Permit Available On Oil & Gas Development Erosion & Sedimentation Control
*  [10/8/2018] PUC Continues On-Site Mutual Aid To Massachusetts In Aftermath Of Natural Gas Line Explosion
*  [10/8/2018] FERC Approves Operation Of Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Staring Oct. 6
*  [10/1/2018] House Environmental Committee Amends Critical Infrastructure Security Bill To Set Penalties For Intentional Vandalism
*  [10/1/2018] Op-Ed: How PA Leaders Can Help Prevent Another Major Gas Pipeline Explosion
*  [9/24/2018] Waning Days Of Senate, House: Environmental Bills We’re Watching, Good And Bad
*  [9/24/2018] Senate Environmental Committee Holds Sept. 25 Hearing On Foreign Influence On Natural Gas Development In PA
*  [9/24/2018] House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 25 On Controversial Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bill
*  [9/24/2018] PUC Approves Resolution Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Valve Dispute In Chester County
*  [9/24/2018] DEP: Nov. 7 Hearing (If Needed) On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Pipeline Compressor Station In Forest County
*  [9/24/2018] CFA Awards $850,000 Grant To Valley Energy, Inc. To Extend Natural Gas Pipeline In Bradford County
*  [9/24/2018] Businesses Showcase Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions For Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions In PA
*  [9/24/2018] Royal Dutch Shell Raises Ambition To Drive Down Methane Emissions To Near Zero By 2025
*  [9/17/2018] PUC Pipeline Safety Division Working To Investigate Beaver County Pipeline Explosion
*  [9/10/2018] Senate Environmental Committee Sets Sept. 25 Hearing On Foreign Influence On Natural Gas Development In PA
*  [9/10/2018] Rep. Quinn Introduces House Resolution To Require DEP, PUC To Do Mariner East 2 Pipeline Risk Assessment
*  [9/3/2018] PA Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Decisions Saying Local Zoning Ordinances Do Not Apply To Mariner East Pipelines
*  [8/27/2018] DEP Issues Modified Permits For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Chester County; PUC Lifts Construction Ban At 2 Locations
*  [8/20/2018] DEP Allows Mariner East 2 Pipeline To Resume Construction In Chester County; PUC OK Still Needed
*  [8/20/2018] Environmental Groups Release 2017-18 PA Environmental Voting Scorecard
*  [8/13/2018] DEP Assesses $148,000 Penalty Against Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Violations in Berks, Chester, Lebanon Counties
*  [8/6/2018] Public Utility Commission Partially Lifts Mariner East 2, 2x Pipeline Construction Shut Down In Chester County
*  [8/6/2018] StateImpact: DEP, DCNR, DCED Submit Comments To FERC Critical Of Pipeline Review Process
*  [7/30/2018] Environmental Groups Reach Settlement With DEP On Mariner East 2 Pipeline Appeals
*  [7/30/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [7/23/2018] PUC, DEP: There Needs To Be A Serious Conversation On Legislation Controlling Pipeline Siting
*  [7/23/2018] Nature Conservancy, Pipeline Companies Collaborate On Recommendations To Reduce Environmental Impacts Of Construction On Slopes
*  [7/23/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For Dominion Pipeline In Greene, Armstrong Counties
*  [7/23/2018] Gov. Wolf: CFA Awards $3.4 Million In Funding For 5 Natural Gas Pipeline, Alternative, Clean Energy Projects
*  [7/16/2018] PUC Unanimously Denies Request To Reverse Flow Of Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
*  [7/16/2018] House Republican Policy Committee Hearing July 17 On Pipeline Safety In Delaware County
*  [7/16/2018] CNX Gas Company Pays $250,000 Penalty For Marchland 3 Pipeline Violations In Indiana County
*  [7/9/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Natural Gas Pipelines Under I-79 In Allegheny County
*  [6/25/2018] Senate Committee OKs Pipeline Eminent Domain Landowner Bill Of Rights Legislation
*  [6/18/2018] PUC Lifts Shutdown Order On Mariner East 1 Pipeline; Mariner East 2, 2x Pipeline Construction Remains Shut Down In Chester County
*  [6/18/2018] Senate Committee OKs Bills Requiring Compensation For DRBC Fracking Ban, To Form Pipeline Commission, But NOT Conventional Drilling Bill
*  [6/18/2018] Senate Committee Meets June 18 On Pipeline Eminent Domain Landowner Bill Of Rights Legislation
*  [6/18/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Transcontinental Northeast Supply Pipeline In Lancaster, Chester Counties
*  [6/18/2018] Gasoline Suppliers, Refiners Object To Bi-Directional Flow Proposal For Laurel Pipeline
*  [6/11/2018] Senate Committee To Consider House Conventional Oil & Gas Bill, DRBC Eminent Domain, Pipelines, Ethane Hub, Recycling, Trail Bills June 12
*  [6/11/2018] Sen. Dinniman Calls On PUC To Post Mariner East Pipelines Case Public Comments Online
*  [6/11/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Pipeline Expansion Project In Greene County
*  [6/11/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Monaca Gas Pipeline Project Water Quality Certification In Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [6/4/2018] Sen. Rafferty Introduces Bipartisan Resolution To Create Commission On Pipeline Construction & Operations
*  [6/4/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [5/28/2018] PUC Judge Issues Order To Shut Down Mariner East 1, 2, 2x Pipelines, Sunoco To Appeal
*  [5/28/2018] Senate Passes Bill Making It A Felony To Simply Trespass On Pipeline, Or On Other Critical Infrastructure Property
*  [5/28/2018] Trout Unlimited Pipeline Water Monitoring Training June 3 In Lehigh County
*  [5/28/2018] CFA Awards 9 Grants Totalling $16.1 Million For Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy, Energy Infrastructure Projects
*  [5/28/2018] PUC Chairman Gladys Brown Named To DOE Natural Gas Infrastructure Modernization Partnership
*  [5/28/2018] Bay Journal: Exelon Sues Maryland Over Unfair Burden Posed By Conowingo Dam Requirements
*  [5/21/2018] U.S. EIA: Northeast Region Slated For Record Natural Gas Pipeline Buildout In 2018
*  [5/14/2018] Commonwealth Court To Hear Mariner East 2 Pipeline Case Challenging Eminent Domain On Environmental Rights Amendment Grounds
*  [5/14/2018] Delaware RiverKeeper Files Multiple Legal Challenges With FERC Over PennEast Pipeline
*  [5/7/2018] DEP Fines Mariner East 2 Pipeline Additional $355,000 For Violations
*  [5/7/2018] PUC Allows Restart Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline Operations Following Compliance With Emergency Order
*  [5/7/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Transcontinental Quarryville Loop Pipeline, Compressor Station Permits
*  [4/30/2018] Sen. Dinniman Files Complaint Asking PUC To Halt Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction
*  [4/30/2018] Senate Committee Reports Out Pipeline Safety, Construction Bills
*  [4/23/2018] DEP Establishes New Water Quality Project Grant Program With $12.6 Million Mariner East 2 Pipeline Penalty
*  [4/23/2018] Senate Committee Meets April 24 To Consider Pipeline Safety, Construction Bills
*  [4/23/2018] FERC Seeks Public Comments On Natural Gas Pipeline Evaluations
*  [4/23/2018] PUC Chairman Brown To Lead National Committee On Critical Infrastructure
*  [4/23/2018] DEP Hearing On Mariner East II Pipeline Permit Changes April 30 In Chester County, Extends Comment Period
*  [4/9/2018] Buckeye Now Proposing Bi-Directional Laurel Pipeline Service
*  [4/2/2018] Administrative Law Judge Recommends PUC Deny Request To Reverse Flow Of Laurel Pipeline
*  [3/26/2018] Senate Hearing On Pipeline Safety Points To Need To Hold Pipeline Companies Accountable For Impacts, Better Communication
*  [3/19/2018] PUC Ratifies Emergency Order Suspending Operations Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline
*  [3/19/2018] Senate Committees To Hold Joint Pipeline Safety Hearing March 20
*  [3/19/2018] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Berks County Power Plant Natural Gas Pipeline
*  [3/19/2018] CFA Provides $980,000 In Funding For Natural Gas Pipeline Project In Monroe County
*  [3/19/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [3/12/2018] PUC Orders Shutdown Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline After Sinkholes Expose Bare Pipeline In Chester County
*  [3/12/2018] Sinkholes In Chester County Blamed On Mariner East 2 Pipeline, Exposed Portion Of Operating Mariner East 1 Pipeline
*  [3/12/2018] DEP Sets 3 Public Hearings On Proposed Shell Ethane Pipeline In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [3/12/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For Natural Gas Pipelines Under I-79 In Allegheny County
*  [3/5/2018] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Agreement With Sunoco Allowing Restart Of Mariner East 2 Construction, Sue For Breach Of Contract
*  [3/5/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Permits For Risberg Pipeline Project In Crawford, Erie Counties
*  [3/5/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [2/19/2018] Sunoco Satisfies Requirements To Resume Mariner East II Pipeline Construction At Chester County Site
*  [2/19/2018] DEP Extends Comment Period On Permits For Shell Ethane Pipeline, Hearings To Be Scheduled
*  [2/12/2018] Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Fined $12.6 Million, DEP Allows Construction To Resume
*  [2/12/2018] Rep. Boback Introduces Marcellus Drilling Health Registry Bill
*  [2/12/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Changes To Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion Permits In Chester, Delaware Counties
*  [2/12/2018] Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Appeals DEP Suspension Of Construction
*  [2/12/2018] Sen. Dinniman Promotes Crowd-Funding For Mariner East II Pipeline Risk Assessment
*  [2/12/2018] DEP Proposes Water Quality Certification For Revised Equitrans Pipeline Project In Greene County
*  [2/5/2018] PSATS Township News: Caught In The Middle, Twps In The Path Of Gas Pipelines
*  [2/5/2018] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [1/29/2018] Delaware RiverKeeper Files PennEast Pipeline Rehearing Request With FERC
*  [1/22/2018] Shell Proposes Nearly 60 Mile Ethane Pipeline In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
*  [1/22/2018] NEW: FERC Approves PA-NJ PennEast Natural Gas Pipeline Late Friday
*  [1/8/2018] DEP Suspends Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Permits
*  [12/25/2017] Gov. Wolf Meets With Opponents Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [12/25/2017] PUC Seeking Nominations For PA One Call Utility/Pipeline Damage Prevention Committee
*  [12/18/2017] Senate Committee Hears Comments From Both Sides In Dispute Over Reversing Laurel Pipeline
*  [12/4/2017] DEP Releases Draft Final General Permits For Controlling Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Operations
*  [11/20/2017] CFA Approves Funding For Wyoming County Pipeline Project
*  [11/20/2017] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification To Equitrans Pipeline Project In Allegheny, Beaver
*  [11/6/2017] Sen. Baker’s Natural Gas Pipeline Safety, PA One Call Bill Signed Into Law
*  [10/30/2017] Senate Sends Natural Gas Pipeline Safety, PA One Call Bill To Governor
*  [10/30/2017] Clean Air Council, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Mountain Watershed Association Demand DEP Accountability In Mariner East 2 Pipeline Spills
*  [10/23/2017] House Passes Utility, Natural Gas Pipeline Safety PA One Call Bill, Returns To Senate
*  [10/23/2017] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Gas Pipeline Replacement In Greene County
*  [10/23/2017] Lawmakers Join Southeast PA Residents In Call For Stronger Pipeline Safety Measures
*  [10/23/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [10/9/2017] House Consumer Affairs Committee OKs Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Bill
*  [10/9/2017] PUC Pipeline Safety Division Earns High Marks In Annual Federal Review
*  [9/11/2017] DEP Issues Air Quality Plan Approval For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline In Lancaster County
*  [9/4/2017] Harvey: Feds, DEP Act To Deal With Expected Gasoline, Fuel Supply Disruptions
*  [9/4/2017] DEP Approves Water Quality Permits For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline, Air Permit Still Under Review
*  [9/4/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [8/28/2017] Fmr Corbett Admin Official Anthony Pugliese Named FERC Chair Chief Of Staff
*  [8/28/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [8/21/2017] Trump Order On Infrastructure Environmental Reviews May Impact State Decisions Under Delegated Federal Programs
*  [8/21/2017] DEP Proposes Water Quality Cert. For 42-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline In Lancaster, Chester Counties
*  [8/21/2017] EIA: As Pipeline Projects Are Completed, Appalachian Region Natural Gas Prices Are Rising
*  [8/14/2017] EHB Approves Sunoco, Groups, DEP Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Settlement
*  [8/14/2017] PUC Reminds Property Owners, Contractors To Call 8-1-1 Before You Dig
*  [8/14/2017] DEP Accepting Comments On Water Quality Certification For Birdsboro Pipeline, Berks County
*  [8/14/2017] Dominion Appeals Leak Detection In 2 Pipeline Compressor Station Air Permits In Clinton, Potter Counties
*  [8/14/2017] Opponents Of Natural Gas Pipeline Construction In Lancaster Vow To Continue Fight
*  [8/14/2017] DEP: Public Hearing Aug. 14 In Lancaster For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Air Permit
*  [8/7/2017] Day 38 Without A Complete State Budget; Treasurer Torsella Issues $750M Line Of Credit
*  [8/7/2017] U.S. Senate Confirms PUC’s Powelson For Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
*  [8/7/2017] EHB Allows Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction To Resume At 16 Of 55 Sites
*  [8/7/2017] StateImpact: Mapping Mariner East 2 Pipeline Spills Across Pennsylvania
*  [7/31/2017] Environmental Hearing Board Orders Halt On All Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Drilling
*  [7/31/2017] DEP Takes More Action On Mariner East 2 Pipeline Violations, Statement On EHB Order
*  [7/31/2017] DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Pipeline Project In Western PA
*  [7/31/2017] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Guidance For Pipeline Water Quality Certification
*  [7/24/2017] DEP Aug. 14 Hearing In Lancaster On Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Air Quality Permit
*  [7/24/2017] DEP Investigating Mariner East 2 Pipeline Existing And Potential Violations During Construction
*  [7/24/2017] 3 Groups Call For Shut Down Of Mariner East 2 Construction Due To Well Contamination
*  [7/24/2017] Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Results In Another Spill In Delaware County
*  [7/24/2017] Delaware County Residents Appeal County Zoning Code Ruling On Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [7/17/2017] Delaware RiverKeeper Files Appeal Of Legal Challenge To Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Chester County
*  [7/10/2017] Delaware County Coalition Responds To Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 Pipeline Pre-Holiday Flyer
*  [7/3/2017] 40 Groups Urge Gov. Wolf, DEP To Deny Permits For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
*  [6/26/2017] Senate Passes PA One Call Pipeline Safety Bill, With Shale Gas, Not Smaller Conventional Gathering Lines
*  [6/12/2017] Conventional Gas Drillers: We Can’t Afford To Protect Public, Workers From Our Pipelines Exploding
*  [6/12/2017] PennEast Pipeline Awards Community Grants In Pennsylvania, NJ
*  [5/29/2017] DEP Sets 4 Regional Hearings On Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Project Permits
*  [5/29/2017] $442,274 Pipeline Grant Connects Communities In Susquehanna County To Natural Gas
*  [5/22/2017] PUC Judge Hears Conflicting Views On Reversing Laurel Pipeline Flow
*  [5/15/2017] PUC’s Powelson To Be Nominated To Serve On Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
*  [5/15/2017] Delaware Riverkeeper Files Suit Against Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Failing To Comply With Local Zoning
*  [5/15/2017] DEP Proposes Section 401 Water Quality Cert. For H-125 Pipeline Project In Allegheny, Washington Counties
*  [5/15/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [5/15/2017] Sunoco Spills Slurry In Delaware County While Drilling Under Chester Creek For Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [5/8/2017] Sen. Martin Proposes Bill To Impose The Public Costs Of Protests Against Pipelines On The Protesters
*  [5/8/2017] DEP Water Resources Committee Reviews Pipeline Water Quality Cert. Policy May 10
*  [5/8/2017] Opponents Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline File Lawsuit Against Sunoco To Enforce Delaware County Twp. Ordinance
*  [5/8/2017] Penn State: Shale Gas Threat To Forests Can Be Eased By Consolidating Infrastructure
*  [5/8/2017] Reminder: 2 PUC Hearings May 16 On App To Change Direction Of Laurel Pipeline
*  [4/24/2017] Bill Adding Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines To PA One Call OK’d By Senate Committee
*  [4/24/2017] PUC: PA One Call Changes, Drilling Impact Fee Appeal, Act 129 Energy Efficiency Savings, Growth Of Natural Gas
*  [4/24/2017] UGI Proposals To Replace Aging Natural Gas Service Distribution Pipelines OK’d By PUC
*  [4/17/2017] Bill Adding Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines To PA One Call On Senate Committee Agenda April 18
*  [4/17/2017] DEP: EM Energy Pipeline Assessed $185,000 Penalty For Surface Water, Wetland Impacts
*  [4/17/2017] DCNR Signs Submerged Lands Agreements With EQT Drilling Worth Over $2.5 Million
*  [4/10/2017] PA One Call Debunks Myths On The Cost Of Its Pipeline, Utility Safety Program
*  [4/10/2017] DEP April 19 Meeting/Hearing On Transco Compressor Station In Lycoming County
*  [4/10/2017] FERC Issues Final PennEast Pipeline EIS Saying It Can Be Built With Minimal Impact
*  [4/10/2017] Delaware County Residents Give Notice Of Lawsuit To Enforce Local Pipeline Ordinance
*  [4/3/2017] PUC To Hold 2 Hearings May 16 On Application To Change Direction Of Laurel Pipeline
*  [4/3/2017] Commonwealth Financing Authority OKs Pipeline, Small Water, Sewer System Grants
*  [4/3/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [3/27/2017] Call For PUC’s Powelson To Step Down After Jihad Remarks About Pipeline Opponents
*  [3/20/2017] PennEast Pipeline Awards Nearly $130,000 In STEM Education Grants In PA, NJ
*  [3/13/2017] Senate Bill Would Regulate Safety Of Over 3,600 Miles Of Gas Pipelines For 1st Time
*  [3/13/2017] EHB Denies Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits
*  [3/13/2017] Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
*  [3/13/2017] Reports: Trump To Tap PUC Commissioner Powelson For FERC
*  [3/13/2017] Tennessee Gas Orion Pipeline Project In Pike, Wayne Counties Gets DEP Permits
*  [3/13/2017] DEP Hearing April 19 On Transco Compressor Station Generator Lycoming County
*  [3/13/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [3/6/2017] Delaware RiverKeeper Challenges DEP’s PennEast Pipeline Certification In Federal Court
*  [2/27/2017] EHB Again Denies Temporary Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits
*  [2/27/2017] Altoona Mirror: PUC Faces Major Decision On Reversing Flow Of Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
*  [2/27/2017] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [2/20/2017] DEP Approves Environmental Permits For Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [2/20/2017] EHB Denies Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits, Hearing March 1
*  [2/20/2017] PennEast Pipeline Receives DEP Water Quality Certification
*  [2/20/2017] Volunteers Needed To Document Features Along PennEast Pipeline Route, Training Feb. 25
*  [2/13/2017] FERC OKs Energy Transfer Partners Rover Natural Gas Pipeline From PA To Ontario
*  [2/13/2017] FERC, DEP Approves Empire Pipeline In McKean County Into New York
*  [2/13/2017] Trout Unlimited Pipeline Construction Monitoring Training March 18 In Carbon County
*  [2/13/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [2/6/2017] Williams Partners: Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Gets FERC OK
*  [2/6/2017] PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance Urges DEP To OK Mariner East 2 Pipeline
*  [2/6/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [1/30/2017] Sen. Baker Tries Again To Add Natural Gas Gathering Lines To One Call Safety Program
*  [1/30/2017] $1 Million CFA Pipeline Investment Program Grant In Elk County For Domtar Paper
*  [1/30/2017] Trump Issues Memorandums On Environmental Reviews, Pipelines, Infrastructure
*  [1/23/2017] New DEP Rules For Chapter 105 Environmental Assessments For Pipeline, Multi-County Projects
*  [1/23/2017] DEP Sets March 1 Hearing For PennEast Pipeline Compressor Station In Carbon County
*  [1/16/2017] PennAg Industries Assn, Sunoco Pipelines Launch Biosecurity Education Program
*  [1/9/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [1/2/2017] FERC Issues Final EIS For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Project
*  [1/2/2017] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [12/26/2016] DEP OKs Water Quality Cert. For Dominion Leidy Compressor Stations In 3 Counties
*  [12/19/2016] DEP Issues Final Water Quality Cert. For Rover Pipeline, Washington County
*  [12/19/2016] DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Cert. For Leach Xpress Pipeline, Greene County
*  [12/19/2016] Fish & Wildlife Service Invites Comments On EIS For Oil & Gas Habitat Plan
*  [12/13/2016] DEP Fines Rice Energy Subsidiaries $3.5 Million At 10 Well Sites, 6 Pipeline Locations
*  [12/13/2016] More Bakken Crude Oil Expected To Move By Rail Because Of Dakota Pipeline Decision
*  [12/5/2016] DEP Invites Comments On Columbia Gas Pipeline Replacement Project In Southwest
*  [12/5/2016] Proposed Tennessee Gas Triad Pipeline Project In Susquehanna County Approved By DEP
*  [11/28/2016] Comments Invited On Equitrans Pipeline Replacement Project In Armstrong/Indiana Counties
*  [11/21/2016] Hearing: 60,000+ Miles Of Natural Gas Gathering Lines Should Be Regulated For Safety
*  [11/21/2016] Google, Environmental Defense Fund Use New Tech To Find Methane Leaks In Pittsburgh
*  [11/14/2016] Senate, House Committees Hold Joint Hearing Nov. 16 On Pipeline Emergency Response
*  [11/14/2016] PUC Approves UGI’s Distribution System Improvement Charge
*  [11/7/2016] EPA Issues RFG Gasoline Waiver As A Result Of The Colonial Pipeline Failure
*  [11/7/2016] Applications Now Being Accepted For Natural Gas Pipeline Project Grants
*  [10/31/2016] DEP Update: Pipeline Spill Has Not Caused Problems For Downstream Water Supplies
*  [10/24/2016] Volunteer Training For Pipeline Construction Monitors Nov. 19 In Danville
*  [10/10/2016] Water Quality Certification Issued For Orion Pipeline Project In Pike, Wayne Counties
*  [10/10/2016] DEP Proposes Water Quality Certification For Empire Pipeline In McKean County
*  [10/10/2016] Leach Xpress Pipeline Project In Greene County Proposed Water Quality Certification
*  [10/10/2016] PennEast Pipeline Awards Community Connector Grants, New Applications Accepted
*  [10/3/2016] Preparedness Committees Set Nov. 16 Hearing On Pipeline Emergency Response
*  [10/3/2016] Oil & Gas Industry Focuses On Need For Pipelines, Infrastructure To Support Production
*  [10/3/2016] Comments Invited On Rover Pipeline Project, Compressor Station In Washington County
*  [9/26/2016] UGI Pipeline Testing Temporarily Closing Parts Of D&H, O&W Rail Trails Sept. 26-30
*  [9/12/2016] Williams Asks DEP WQ Certification For 164 Pipeline Segments In Susquehanna County
*  [8/29/2016] Proposed Water Quality Certification Of PennEast Pipeline Project Out For Public Review
*  [8/29/2016] DEP Fines Pipeline Companies $174K For Changing Plans Without Approval
*  [8/29/2016] UGI Starts Construction On Sunbury Pipeline To Serve New Natural Gas Power Plant
*  [8/8/2016] DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 102 Permits For Sunoco’s Mariner II East Pipeline
*  [8/1/2016] FERC Sets 4 PA Meetings To Accept Comments On PennEast Pipeline Draft EIS
*  [8/1/2016] FERC Accepting Comments On National Fuel Gas Northern Access Pipeline Draft EIS
*  [7/25/2016] DEP: Stonehenge Appalachia Pipeline To Pay $1.5M Penalty For Environmental Violations
*  [7/25/2016] DEP Issues Permits For UGI Sunbury Pipeline In 5 Counties Starting In Lycoming
*  [7/25/2016] FERC Gives Approval To EIS For Proposed PennEast Pipeline
*  [7/25/2016] Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
*  [7/18/2016] Court Denies Landowner Appeal In Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Eminent Domain Case
*  [7/11/2016] DEP Sets 5 Public Hearings On Proposed Mariner East II Natural Gas Pipeline
*  [7/4/2016] DISC Infrastructure Improvement Plans Approved For UGI, Peoples Natural Gas
*  [6/27/2016] DEP Now Accepting Comments On Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Project Segments
*  [6/13/2016] PUC OKs Accelerated Replacement Of PGW Natural Gas Pipelines In Philadelphia
*  [6/6/2016] DEP Extends Comment Period For Permits Related To Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
*  [6/6/2016] Pamela Witmer Joins UGI Energy Services’ Leadership Team
*  [5/23/2016] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed UGI Sunbury Pipeline Water Quality Certification
*  [5/23/2016] Constitution Pipeline Appeals New York Decision On Water Quality Permit
*  [5/23/2016] Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
*  [5/16/2016] DEP Proposes Issuing Water Quality Certification For PennEast Pipeline
*  [5/9/2016] Westmoreland County Pipeline Explosion Still Being Investigated
*  [5/2/2016] Constitution Pipeline Committed To Building Pipeline In Spite Of NY Disapproval
*  [5/2/2016] Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Own Hearings On Proposed PennEast Pipeline
*  [5/2/2016] DEP Expands Particulate Matter Air Monitoring Network
*  [5/2/2016] UGI Natural Gas Utilities Request Increase In Distribution System Improvement Charges
*  [4/18/2016] Philly.com: DEP’s Quigley: Budget Cuts Leave DEP Ill-Equipped To Monitor Pipelines
*  [4/11/2016] FERC To Complete PennEast Pipeline Environmental Review By Dec. 16
*  [3/21/2016] 2 New Members Joint PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance