 [6/5/2023]
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DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.
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[6/5/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells
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[6/5/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3
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[6/5/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Low Stream Flows Trigger SRBC Water Withdrawal Restrictions On 49 Oil & Gas Drilling Operations & Other Water Users
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[6/5/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021
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[6/5/2023]
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House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities
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[6/5/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen
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[6/5/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Issued Hot Weather Alert For Entire Footprint For June 2
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[5/29/2023]
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House Bill Introduced To Create Veterans Entering The Sustainability Sector Workforce Incentive Program
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[5/29/2023]
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Conventional Oil/Gas Industry Bothered By DEP Records Showing They Receive NOVs For Abandoning An Average Of 561 Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 20 to 26; DEP Issues More NOVs For Conventional Well Abandonments
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[5/29/2023]
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Democrats On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: Renew Bonds To Close, Cleanup Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
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[5/29/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 27
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[5/29/2023]
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Warren Times Editorial: Keeping A Natural Lifeline Pure With Environmental Rights Amendment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24
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[5/29/2023]
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Things Are Different In The House: Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs Became ‘Democracy’ vs. ‘Open Mic Night’
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[5/29/2023]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Names Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman New President & CEO, The Rev. Mitch Hescox Retiring
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[5/29/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets June 15 On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
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[5/29/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 36 Shale Gas Well Drilling Pad Water Use Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[5/22/2023]
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Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects
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[5/22/2023]
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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Asks DCNR To Protect State Forest Land From Seneca Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad, Comply With PA Supreme Court Decision, Protect Recreation, Wildlife
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[5/22/2023]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling
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[5/22/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Meets May 23 To Consider Bills To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year; Authorize Streambank Fencing
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[5/22/2023]
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Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well
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[5/22/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
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[5/22/2023]
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Environmental Groups Launched Effort May 4 Asking For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities, So Far No Response
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[5/22/2023]
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Zefiro Methane Corp. Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets
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[5/22/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change
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[5/22/2023]
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PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7% Increase To 17% Decrease; Driven By Price Of Natural Gas
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[5/22/2023]
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NRDC: PJM Interconnection Delays In Queue To Approve Renewable Energy Projects Threatens State Transition To Clean Energy; PJM Has Approved 35,000 MW Of Renewables Not Yet Connected
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[5/22/2023]
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Heinz Endowments Awards Nearly $11.1 Million In Grants For Environmental Health, Food Insecurity, Education, Housing
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[5/15/2023]
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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County
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[5/15/2023]
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Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations
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[5/15/2023]
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PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County
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[5/15/2023]
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Penn State Shale [Gas] Network Workshop Features Acting DEP Secretary Richard Negrin May 18-19 In State College
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[5/15/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 6 to 12; Equitrans Gas Storage Area Issued New NOVs
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[5/15/2023]
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DEP: Seneca Resources Ignores NOVs On DCNR Shale Gas Well Pad Cleanup For 7 Months & Counting; Citizen Complaint Finds Homeowner Well Venting Gas; Multiple Tanker Truck Spills
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[5/15/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13
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[5/15/2023]
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Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads
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[5/15/2023]
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Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad
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[5/15/2023]
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Harrisburg University Research Cited By 2 Federal Agencies In New Regulations To Fight Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[5/15/2023]
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PJM Interconnection: Summer Electricity Supplies Should Be Sufficient Under Anticipated Conditions; Higher Than Expected Generator Outages, Extreme Scenarios Could Bring Risk To Reserve Margins
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[5/8/2023]
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Center For Coalfield Justice: Nearly 11 Months Since An EQT Shale Gas Well Frac-Out Left Residents Near New Freeport, Greene County Without Clean Water; DEP’s Investigation Not Complete
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[5/8/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
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[5/8/2023]
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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
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[5/8/2023]
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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
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[5/8/2023]
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EDF: Federal Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Proposes Vital Standards to Enhance Safety, Cut Methane From Nation’s Pipeline Network
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[5/8/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6
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[5/8/2023]
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Environmental Groups Circulate Petition Asking Dept. of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[5/8/2023]
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DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. of Health, CDC Launch Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
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[5/8/2023]
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Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[5/8/2023]
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Three Rivers Waterkeeper Seeking Volunteers For 3 Rivers Watch, Training Starts For Pollution Patrols; Other Upcoming Events
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[5/8/2023]
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Senate Hearing: Wholesale Electricity Prices Too Low To Support Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants In Market; Natural Gas Reliability Issues Will Continue
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[5/8/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 9 For Updates On Federal Infrastructure Projects; Act 54 Report On Damage From Coal Mining; Carbon Capture; Hydrogen Hub
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[5/8/2023]
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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
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[5/1/2023]
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Dickinson College To Recognize Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska With Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism
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[5/1/2023]
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House Hearing: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells
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[5/1/2023]
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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
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[5/1/2023]
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Guest Essay: Conventional vs Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells - Not As Different As You Might Think
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[5/1/2023]
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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
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[5/1/2023]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Implement Reforms For Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking
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[5/1/2023]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Clarifies New Regulations On Oil/Gas Fracking Wastewater Bans Road Spreading, Disposal From Conventional Wells
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[5/1/2023]
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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
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[5/1/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
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[5/1/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Finding 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells Owned By Prosperity Oil Co. Continuing To Vent Natural Gas In Washington County
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[5/1/2023]
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Chesapeake Appalachia: DEP Inspections Find Violations For Spills, Releases, Continuing Defective Casing/Cementing At Shale Gas Well Pads In Bradford, Susquehanna Counties
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[5/1/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 29
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[5/1/2023]
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NRDC: U.S. Dept. Of Transportation Denies Special Permit For Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail From A Proposed Bradford County LNG Plant; Shipping By Truck Still Allowed
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[5/1/2023]
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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
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[5/1/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Holds May 1 Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability Looking At Natural Gas, Other Generation Failures During Winter Storm Elliot In December
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[5/1/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
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[4/24/2023]
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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
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[4/24/2023]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
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[4/24/2023]
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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
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[4/24/2023]
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Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands
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[4/24/2023]
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Concerned Residents, Advocates Call On DEP For The Opportunity To Comment On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Potter County
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[4/24/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Sets April 24 Hearing On Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; New Bill Restores Authority To Increase Conventional Well Bonding
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[4/24/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/24/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Discovery Of An Unreported Crude Oil Spill Affecting Over 2,400 Feet Of Stream At A Cameron Energy Conventional Well Site In Forest County
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[4/24/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22
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[4/24/2023]
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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
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[4/24/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission May 4 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
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[4/24/2023]
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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
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[4/24/2023]
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Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Significantly Lower Water Flow May Have Long-Ranging Ripple Effect For Aquatic Resources, Recreational Use
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[4/24/2023]
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Intense, Bright White Light From The Shell Plastics Plant Turns Night Into Day For Many Neighbors Of The Beaver County Plant
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[4/17/2023]
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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
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[4/17/2023]
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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
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[4/17/2023]
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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
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[4/17/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/17/2023]
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How Chesapeake Appalachia Created Another New Shale Gas Brownfield In Bradford County; Timberline Energy Plugs Its Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County
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[4/17/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 15
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[4/17/2023]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Meets April 20 On Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
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[4/17/2023]
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The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
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[4/17/2023]
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DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
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[4/17/2023]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts April 19 Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond
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[4/17/2023]
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City & State PA: PA Energy Summit May 11 In Pittsburgh, Featuring Keynote Speaker Acting DEP Secretary Negrin
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[4/10/2023]
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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
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[4/10/2023]
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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
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[4/10/2023]
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Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA
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[4/10/2023]
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Moms Clean Air Force: Strong Proposed EPA Petrochemical Plant Rules Are One Step Closer To Reality; Shell Petrochemical Plant Covered By Separate Proposed Rule
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[4/10/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
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[4/10/2023]
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DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
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[4/10/2023]
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Local Officials, Residents, Advocacy Groups Call On DEP To Conduct A Robust Public Participation Process For Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Applications
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[4/10/2023]
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Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant To Close In Indiana County; Low Price Of Natural Gas, High Price Of Coal, Regulatory Burdens, RGGI Cited As Causes; Solar Project Waiting To Fill Gap
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In March Now Available
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Council Of Professional Geologists Hosts April 20 Webinar Presentation By Manager Of PA State Seismic Network - Basement Structure Of Appalachian Basin In PA
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[4/3/2023]
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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
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[4/3/2023]
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PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines
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[4/3/2023]
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22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells
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[4/3/2023]
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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
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[4/3/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1
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[3/27/2023]
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DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24
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[3/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
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[3/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 25
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[3/27/2023]
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Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County
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[3/27/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
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[3/27/2023]
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PA Senate Hearing: Norfolk Southern CEO: Ignition Of Rail Cars Following Ohio Trainwreck Was A 'Success'
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[3/27/2023]
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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
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[3/27/2023]
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PUC Strongly Encourages Customers To Explore Electric Shopping Options To Help Reduce Size Of Utility Bills
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[3/20/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: New Fortress Energy Reapplying For Wyalusing LNG Natural Gas Plant Permits In Bradford County
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[3/20/2023]
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U.S. DOT Misses Deadline To Suspend Rule Allowing Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail, Including A Proposal In PA
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[3/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
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[3/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 18
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[3/20/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: 75% Of Hazardous Waste Accepted At MAX Environmental Yukon Facility In Westmoreland County Comes From Shale Gas Industry; Sludge Proposed To Be Delisted As Hazardous Waste
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[3/20/2023]
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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
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[3/20/2023]
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Equitrans/DEP In Discussions To Resolve EHB Appeal Of DEP’s Order To Fix Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Area Conventional Access Wells
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[3/20/2023]
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DEP To Submit Letter Of Intent To EPA As Early As This Week For Primacy To Regulate Underground Injection Wells
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[3/20/2023]
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PA Business Groups Urge EPA To Speed Up Approval Of State Primacy Applications For Injection Well Regulation
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[3/20/2023]
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Federal Court Rules Challenge To DEP Air Quality Permit For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Quakertown Compressor Station May Go Forward
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[3/20/2023]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
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[3/20/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Renewals For 7.1 Million Gallons/Day
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[3/20/2023]
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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
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[3/20/2023]
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Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County
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[3/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis
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[3/20/2023]
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March 29 Southeastern PA Town Hall Meeting In Chester County To Focus On Health, Environmental Impacts Of Fossil Fuels
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[3/20/2023]
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EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule
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[3/13/2023]
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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
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[3/13/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Methane Overflight Research Study Resulted In Voluntary Reductions In Oil & Gas, Landfill Facilities; Coal Industry Uncooperative
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[3/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
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[3/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 11
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[3/13/2023]
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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
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[3/13/2023]
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Senate Passes Bill Blocking Local Elected Officials From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change
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[3/13/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 16 On 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses; 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Transfer
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[3/13/2023]
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Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Allowing General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Posts Updated List Of Technical Guidance In Development To Promote Public Involvement
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[3/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania State Actions Responding To Ohio/PA Train Derailment - Week Of March 6
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[3/13/2023]
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House Democratic & Republican Policy Committees Hold March 14 Joint Hearing On Impact Of Ohio/PA Train Derailment In Beaver County
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[3/13/2023]
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Norfolk Southern CEO To Appear March 20 Before PA Senate Committee To Answer Questions About Ohio/PA Train Derailment; Committee Subpoenas Documents
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[3/13/2023]
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Moms Clean Air Force: Impacted Parents From Ohio, PA Will Raise Concerns About Chemical Pollution From The Train Derailment, Petrochemical Industry In The Ohio Valley During U.S. Senate Hearing
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[3/13/2023]
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Sen. Bob Casey Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee On Ohio/PA Train Derailment
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[3/13/2023]
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U.S. Senate Hearing: Energy, Environmental Impacts Of Cryptocurrency Mining In Pennsylvania
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Hosting 6 Regional Engagement Sessions On Climate Action For Environmental Justice Communities Starting April 5
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[3/13/2023]
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Save Our Streams PA Hosting April 28-30 Abandoned Well Weekend Workshop In Bradford County
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[3/13/2023]
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Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosts March 23 TEC Talk On Trends On Industry Decarbonization At Hazleton Campus
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[3/6/2023]
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Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged
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[3/6/2023]
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PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time To Hear Bold Leadership On Oil & Gas In Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Address
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[3/6/2023]
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Better Path Coalition, FracTracker Alliance Release Pennsylvania Is Worth Protecting, A Visual Reminder Of The People, Places & Natural Resources Worth Protecting From Environmental Devastation, Climate Change
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[3/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
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[3/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4
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[3/6/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5% Compared To Last Year
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability: Natural Gas Continues To Have Reliability Problems; Renewables Aren’t Coming Online Fast Enough; Energy Office To Be Proposed
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[3/6/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Study Shows Renewable Energy Sources Not Coming Online Fast Enough To Replace Fossil Fuel Plants; Critical Path Analysis Started To Avoid Grid Reliability Risks
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[3/6/2023]
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Latest PJM Interconnection Electricity Capacity Auction Shows Price Decrease, But Mixed Results In PA
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[3/6/2023]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas
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[3/6/2023]
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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal
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[3/6/2023]
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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
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Republicans, 4 Democrats Pass Resolution Urging Restart Of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Abandoned By Company [BTW Not In PA]
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Committee Meets March 6 On Bill Prohibiting Elected Officials In Local Governments From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change
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[2/27/2023]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Failed To File Annual Production/Waste Generation Reports For 61,655 Wells; Attorney General Continues Investigation Of Road Dumping Wastewater
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[2/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites
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[2/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 25
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[2/27/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Abandoned Responsibility
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[2/27/2023]
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Guest Essay: Forestall Or Foresee - The Energy Transition And The Pennsylvania Legislature
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[2/27/2023]
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PA Supreme Court Sides With Citizens, Landowner Not Sunoco Pipeline On Reimbursing Legal Costs For Lawsuits Won By Citizens
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[2/27/2023]
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DEP Air Quality Committee To Hear Presentation On Methane Emissions Monitoring Overflight Study Of 91 Oil & Gas Facilities, Coal Mines, Landfills On March 9
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[2/20/2023]
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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions
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[2/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 11 to 17
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[2/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 18
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[2/20/2023]
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DEP Approves Permits For Transcontinental Gas Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project in Luzerne, Northampton, Bucks, Chester, Monroe Counties
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[2/20/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 38 Water Use Requests For Shale Gas Well Drilling Pads In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[2/20/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. 21 Webinar On DEP's Federally-Funded Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[2/20/2023]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Court Motion To Prevent Unconstitutional Spending Of DCNR Oil & Gas Revenues For Nonconservation Purposes
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[2/20/2023]
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Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations
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[2/20/2023]
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York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network: 100,000+ Pro-Life Evangelicals Support Strong Oil & Gas Facility Methane Limits
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[2/13/2023]
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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
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[2/13/2023]
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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
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[2/13/2023]
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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
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[2/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/13/2023]
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Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
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[2/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 11
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[2/13/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations
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[2/13/2023]
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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
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[2/13/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Updates From Oil & Gas, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Programs Feb. 14
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[2/13/2023]
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PA Physicians For Social Responsibility Host Feb. 22 Webinar On Radioactive Contaminants From PA Oil And Gas Operations
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[2/13/2023]
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Better Path Coalition To Host Feb. 22 Webinar On How Green Is Blue Hydrogen? Made From Natural Gas
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[2/13/2023]
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Senate Environmental, Consumer Protection Committees To Hold Feb. 27 Hearing On Grid Reliability And Winter Storm Elliot
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[2/6/2023]
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EDF: Conventional Gas Wells In Allegheny National Forest Leaked Over 6 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2019; Conventional Operators Seek To Block Methane Limits
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[2/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 28 to Feb. 3
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[2/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 4
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[2/6/2023]
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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue Shell Chemical For Air Pollution Violations At Its Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[2/6/2023]
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University Of Pittsburgh Hosts Feb. 6 Webinar: Reaping What We Spill, Leak And Spew
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[1/30/2023]
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Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
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[1/30/2023]
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House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
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[1/30/2023]
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DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
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[1/30/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
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[1/30/2023]
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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
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[1/30/2023]
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DEP Releases Bid Solicitation To Plug 19 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Forest County All At Taxpayer Expense
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[1/30/2023]
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PUC: Act 13 Per Well Drilling Impact Fee To Increase For Calendar Year 2022 Nearly 28% For Unconventional Shale Gas Wells
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[1/30/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Seeking Information On Use Of Drones For Environmental Monitoring Work; Feb. 3 Online Meeting Set On Oil & Gas Facility Monitoring Project
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[1/23/2023]
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Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
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[1/23/2023]
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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
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[1/23/2023]
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DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 43 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Clarion County All At Taxpayer Expense, Industry Doesn’t Pay A Dime
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[1/23/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20
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[1/23/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21
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[1/23/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 2 Hearing On A 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Diversion For Ironwood Natural Gas Power Plant In Lebanon County, 6 Other Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses
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[1/23/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Jan. 26 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing On Environmental Impacts From Development Of Unconventional Shale Gas & Oil Reserves
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[1/23/2023]
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York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters
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[1/23/2023]
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Sen. Yaw Looks For Common Ground With New Governor On Energy, Environmental Issues
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[1/23/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Diesel Mining Equipment Bill, Postpones Resolution On Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
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[1/16/2023]
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DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
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[1/16/2023]
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Fish & Boat Commission Investigation Of Pollution From PA General Energy Natural Gas Development Construction Site On Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek Results In Settlement Agreement
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[1/16/2023]
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DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 38 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County At Taxpayer Expense; Average Cost To Plug $95,000
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[1/16/2023]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Diversified Energy, Owner Of Over 22,500 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA, May Be Financially Insolvent
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[1/16/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13
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[1/16/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 14
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[1/16/2023]
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PJM’s Preliminary Review Of Christmas Storm Electric Generation Failures Shows Natural Gas Units Failed To Provide Power At Over Triple The Rate Of Other Generation
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[1/16/2023]
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American Petroleum Institute Unveils Plan To Prioritize U.S. Natural Gas And Oil; Target Northeast U.S. For Pipeline Development
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[1/16/2023]
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EQT, Chesapeake, Equitrans Shale Gas Companies Announce Methane Reduction Initiatives
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[1/16/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Outlines Needed Environmental, Climate Policy Changes For Incoming Shapiro Administration
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[1/16/2023]
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EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Permit In Young Twp., Jefferson County; Feb. 13 Virtual Hearing Tentatively Set
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[1/16/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds
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[1/16/2023]
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Groups Host Jan. 17 Webinar On Climate & Health Impacts Of Methane Gas From Oil & Gas Operations
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[1/9/2023]
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Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Releases Bid Solicitations To Plug 46 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Armstrong, Washington Counties At Taxpayer Expense
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[1/9/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
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[1/9/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 7
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 10 To Hear Overview Of Stream Redesignation Process, Including High Quality, Exceptional Value Streams; But What About Protection?
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[1/9/2023]
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The Feds
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[1/2/2023]
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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
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[1/2/2023]
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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’
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[1/2/2023]
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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
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[1/2/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 24 to 30
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[1/2/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[1/2/2023]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, North American Electric Reliability Corp. To Open Joint Inquiry Into Winter Storm Elliott
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[12/26/2022]
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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
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[12/26/2022]
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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
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice
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[12/26/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long
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[12/26/2022]
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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
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[12/26/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
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[12/26/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/26/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Oil & Gas Development, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Water Withdrawal Requests
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[12/26/2022]
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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]
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[12/26/2022]
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UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints [Request Ended]
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[12/19/2022]
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Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty
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[12/19/2022]
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Republican Herald/Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Professes Unwarranted Faith In Shale Gas Drillers
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[12/19/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Assesses $600,000 Penalty For Illegal Disposal Of Over 1,800 Truck Loads Of Oil & Gas Waste Drill Cuttings In Fayette County
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[12/19/2022]
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Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.
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[12/19/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 10 to 16
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[12/19/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/19/2022]
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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
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[12/19/2022]
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EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions
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[12/19/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Decarbonization Pathway Relies On Zero Emissions Resources, Energy Efficiency, Increased Electrification, Is Less Costly Than Natural Gas, Carbon Capture Options
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[12/19/2022]
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CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’
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[12/12/2022]
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DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions
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[12/12/2022]
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Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
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[12/12/2022]
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DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More
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[12/12/2022]
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Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[12/12/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking
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[12/12/2022]
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Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
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[12/12/2022]
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PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations
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[12/12/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
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[12/12/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/12/2022]
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PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills
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[12/12/2022]
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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
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[12/12/2022]
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Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas, To Power Vehicles
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[12/12/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA
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[12/5/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.
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[12/5/2022]
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EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro
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[12/5/2022]
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Dramatic Video From Carnegie Mellon’s Project Breathe Shows Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County Flaring Natural Gas Due To Malfunction
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[12/5/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
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[12/5/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/28/2022]
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EQB To Meet Nov. 30 To Consider Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
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[11/28/2022]
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EDF Blog: What A Catastrophic Natural Gas Leak In Pennsylvania Means For Our Climate And Health
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[11/28/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
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[11/28/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/28/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Announces 7 Winners Of 2022 Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship; Including PA’s Laurie Barr
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[11/28/2022]
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Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign
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[11/28/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 7 On Shale Gas Fracking Wastewater Regulations
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[11/28/2022]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP's 18-Month Extension Of Air Quality Permit For Construction Of Renovo Energy Center Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Clinton County
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
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[11/28/2022]
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NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds
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[11/28/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry
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[11/28/2022]
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Better Path Coalition Invites Submissions For ‘Worth Protecting’ Photo Book For New Governor, Legislators
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[11/21/2022]
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UPDATED: After 14 Days, Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Apparently Been Successful
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[11/21/2022]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June
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[11/21/2022]
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Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County
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[11/21/2022]
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Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County
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[11/21/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
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[11/21/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk
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[11/21/2022]
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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
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[11/21/2022]
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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
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[11/21/2022]
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Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard
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[11/21/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step
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[11/21/2022]
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PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County
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[11/21/2022]
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DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility
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[11/21/2022]
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PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage
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[11/21/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals
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[11/14/2022]
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What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
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[11/14/2022]
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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
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[11/14/2022]
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NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
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[11/14/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/14/2022]
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DEP Issues Revised Chapter 102 Permit For Mariner East II Pipeline Post Construction Stormwater Management BMPs In Delaware County
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[11/14/2022]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov. 21
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[11/14/2022]
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Reuters: Williams Urges FERC To Approve Regional Energy Access Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Affecting 6 Counties In PA
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[11/14/2022]
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EPA Unveils Proposed Methane Pollution Reduction Standards Covering Oil & Gas Facilities, Including Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[11/14/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov. 14 Webinar On Protected Zones: Setbacks From Oil & Gas Facilities In California, Colorado, PA
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[11/14/2022]
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Interested In Becoming A Master Watershed Steward? Penn State Extension Holding Information Sessions For Areas Across The State Starting In December
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[11/7/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
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[11/7/2022]
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York Dispatch Editorial: Energy Companies Are Reporting Record Profits, PA Lawmakers Don’t Need To Give Them More Tax Breaks
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[11/7/2022]
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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
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[11/7/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[11/7/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
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[11/7/2022]
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On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
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[11/7/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Estimates CY 2022 Drilling Impact Fee Will Generate Record $274.8 Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record
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[11/7/2022]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 9 Webinar On Methane Emission Fees Under New Federal Climate, Energy Act And Impacts On Oil & Gas Industry
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[10/31/2022]
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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
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[10/31/2022]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: State Insists On Paying Polluters
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[10/31/2022]
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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
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[10/31/2022]
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DCNR Leased 176 Acres Of Susquehanna River Submerged Land To SWN Natural Gas Production Company In Susquehanna County For $704,000
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[10/31/2022]
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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group: Potential Impacts Of Shale Gas Development Forest Fragmentation On Tioga State Forest Birds
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[10/31/2022]
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Bill Goes To Governor Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Senate, House Again Fail To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding
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[10/31/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/31/2022]
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A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates
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[10/31/2022]
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Scranton Times/Republican Herald Editorial: Legislators Like Plastics, Expect More
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[10/31/2022]
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Penn State Research: PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Persist Through Wastewater Treatment, May Enter Crops
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[10/31/2022]
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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
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[10/31/2022]
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National Fuel Gas Requests PUC To Approve 9.2% Increase In Base Delivery Charge; Separate Cost Of Gas Up 127.8% Since May 2021
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[10/31/2022]
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Senate Committee OK’d Bills Rebranding Fossil Fuels As ‘Low Emission,’ Eliminating Incentives For EVs; Fails To End Ban On Raising Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Reports Out EHB Nominee Sarah Clark
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[10/24/2022]
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NO SPECIAL PROTECTION: The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek In Lycoming County Is Dammed And Damned
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[10/24/2022]
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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
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[10/24/2022]
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DEP/SRBC Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/24/2022]
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TribLive Editorial: State Fines Should Be Higher Than Tax Cuts To Penalize Environmental Leaks
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[10/24/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: State Lawmakers Should Adopt Rules That Preclude State Taxpayers From Subsidizing Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry
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[10/24/2022]
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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
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[10/24/2022]
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Southwestern PA Grassroots Town Halls Hosts Oct. 24 Virtual Program On Eyes On Shell Ethane Plant Campaign In Beaver County
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[10/24/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. 15-16
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[10/24/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Dangerous Course For Oil & Gas Well Emissions, Obstructionists Should Get Out Of The Way
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[10/24/2022]
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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
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[10/24/2022]
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House Committee Meets Oct. 24 To Consider Gas Royalty, Diesel Engines In Coal Mines Bills
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[10/24/2022]
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Senate Committee To Hold Oct. 27 Hearing On The Role Of LNG In U.S. Energy Security On World Stage
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[10/17/2022]
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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
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[10/17/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/17/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 3 Hearing On Water Withdraws, Including 3 Natural Gas Development Proposals
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[10/17/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Blog: 7 Questions You Should Ask Every Candidate About Shale Gas Development And Public Health
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[10/17/2022]
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U.S. EIA Projects Home Heating Costs Will Increase Most For Natural Gas - 28%, Heating Oil - 27%, Electricity - 10%, Propane 5% This Winter
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[10/17/2022]
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Oct. 25 Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Issued NOVs To Conventional Oil & Gas Companies For Abandoning 55 Wells Without Plugging Them During September Alone, A Dramatic Increase In New Well Abandonments
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[10/10/2022]
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Fall Visitors To Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Urged To Report Illegal Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 Since 2016
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[10/10/2022]
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Environmental Groups Raise Serious Compliance Issues With Olympus Energy-- Over 600 Violations On 13 DEP Permits-- In Comments On Proposed Shale Gas Drilling Pad In Allegheny County
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/10/2022]
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Washington County Community Meeting Updates Residents On PA Health & Environment Studies, Discusses Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Development
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Adds Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 12 EQB Agenda
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[10/10/2022]
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Bills Establishing Incentives For Using Fossil-Fueled Vehicles Introduced In The House, Senate; Eliminates Support For Hybrid, Electric Vehicles
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[10/3/2022]
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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
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[10/3/2022]
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Pitt School Of Public Health, PA Dept Of Health Abruptly Pull Out Of Oct. 5 Public Meeting They Helped Convene On Studies Looking At Links Between Natural Gas Development And Childhood Cancer Rates
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP/Susquehanna River Basin Commission Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Posts First Invitation For Bids For Plugging 79 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Allegheny, Butler, McKean, Potter Counties Under Federally-Funded Program
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[10/3/2022]
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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
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Now Accepting Applications For Cooking In Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchens Rebate Program; 3 Cooking In Energy Efficient Kitchens Webinars
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[10/3/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For 2022 Community Sentinel Awards
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Blog: Is Your Clean Fill Really Clean? Be Aware Of ‘Dirty Dirt’
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[10/3/2022]
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Forbes: U.S. Natural Gas Production Set New Record, But Don’t Expect Relief On Your Heating Bills [LNG Exports Link U.S. To High Prices]
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[10/3/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities For Hydrogen In Appalachia
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Tells Citizens Advisory Council Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Still Does Not Meet Residual Waste Regulations; Remains Illegal
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[9/26/2022]
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Penn State Research Links Groundwater Contamination To Areas Of Unconventional Shale Gas And Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling
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[9/26/2022]
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Study: Industry Data Shows Hazardous Air Pollutants Are ‘Ubiquitous’ In The Natural Gas Transmission System; More Justification For Robust Leak Prevention Programs
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Finalizing First Bid Packages To Plug 249 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Under New Federal Taxpayer Funded Well Plugging Program
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[9/26/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior Notified DEP A Republican Bill Allowed To Become Law In July May Block Funding For New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[9/26/2022]
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House Committee Fails To Address $70 Million In Penalties On Natural Gas Pipelines Or Real Concerns Of People Living Near Gas Production & Distribution Facilities
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/26/2022]
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Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh: News Coverage, Recorded Sessions
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[9/26/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Touts PA's Leadership In Clean Energy Transition At Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh
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[9/26/2022]
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Team Pennsylvania, Co-Chaired By Gov. Wolf, Issues Road Map On Hydrogen Development, Carbon Management In PA
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[9/26/2022]
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PA Environmental Council: Clean Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Can Be Part Of A Comprehensive Decarbonization Strategy: Responsibly Deployed With Environmental Integrity, Accountability And Equity
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[9/26/2022]
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CFA Announces Investment Of $18.2 Million In 130 Recreation, Flood Protection, Environmental Restoration Projects Funded By Act 13 Impact Fee
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[9/19/2022]
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects PA Senate Republican Caucus Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP, Fish & Boat Commission Investigate Multiple, Continuing Water Pollution Discharges From PGE Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Site On Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
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[9/19/2022]
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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/19/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host Nov. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
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[9/19/2022]
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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
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[9/19/2022]
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Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste
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[9/19/2022]
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PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Professional Development Webinar Oct. 18 - Setback Distances For Unconventional Shale Gas Well Pads - How Close Is Too Close?
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[9/19/2022]
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American Lung Association Report Details Health And Environmental Impacts Of Fuel-Burning Appliances At Home
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[9/19/2022]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 19 Info Meeting On Carbon Capture Technology
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[9/12/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Companies Accelerating Pace Of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them Threatening To Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind
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[9/12/2022]
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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
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[9/12/2022]
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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?
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[9/12/2022]
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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
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[9/12/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/12/2022]
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WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas
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[9/12/2022]
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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?
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[9/12/2022]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 5 In-Person, Virtual Public Meeting On PA Health Studies Of Natural Gas Development In Southwest PA
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[9/12/2022]
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New Book Edited By Researchers From 3 Pittsburgh Universities Now Available On The Environmental Impacts From The Development Of Unconventional Oil & Gas Reserves
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[9/12/2022]
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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
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[9/5/2022]
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Only 15 Out Of 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Who Abandoned Wells Without Plugging Them Were Fined By DEP; Small Penalties No Deterrent To Future Abandonments
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[9/5/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021
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[9/5/2022]
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DEP: Wastes Generated By The New Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program Will NOT Be Exempt From Hazardous Waste Regulations, Unlike Wastes From Active Wells
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[9/5/2022]
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Penn State To Hold Cancer And The Environment Symposium Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included
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[9/5/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Monitors Hydrologic Conditions Across The Basin; Including Oil & Gas Operations
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[9/5/2022]
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Environmental Hearing Board Rules Renovo Energy Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Limits On Sulfur Dioxide, VOC Emissions Set Too High
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[8/29/2022]
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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
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[8/29/2022]
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Bay Journal: New Abandoned Wells - More Concerns Emerge Over Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/29/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior Awards PA $25 Million In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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[8/29/2022]
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DEP To Hold Oct. 5 Virtual Hearing On Proposed Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Regional Energy Access Expansion Project In Eastern PA
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[8/29/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Impoundments By Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC In Washington County
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[8/29/2022]
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State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications For Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Funded Emergency Services Grants
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[8/29/2022]
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The Feds
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[8/22/2022]
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PA Supreme Court: Accounting Required For Environmental Rights Amendment Trust Fund Money From State Forest Oil & Gas Drilling
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[8/22/2022]
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Grant Township Charter Banning Drilling Wastewater Injection Wells Struck Down By State Court; Decision Appealed To PA Supreme Court
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[8/22/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment
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[8/22/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Driller Compliance Review Will Go Back At Least 5 Years; Whether It Will Be Public Document Not Decided
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[8/22/2022]
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Yale School Of Public Health Study Found PA Children 2 To 3 Times More Likely To Be Diagnosed With Leukemia If They Live Near Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities
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[8/22/2022]
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Inside Climate News: Q/A With Eliza Griswold Pulitzer Winning Author Of Deep Dive Into Fracking In PA, How Extractive Industries ‘Gut’ Communities
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[8/22/2022]
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New Poll: Strong Majority Of PA Voters Support Climate Action To Cut Carbon and Methane Pollution
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[8/22/2022]
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PA PUC: Cost Of Natural Gas Provided By Major Utilities In PA Increased As Much As 154% Over Last Year
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[8/22/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports Decline In PA Natural Gas Production For 2nd Quarter In A Row For First Time; But An Increase In New Wells Drilled
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[8/22/2022]
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New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React
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[8/22/2022]
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Climate Wire: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Includes New $700 Million Grant Program To Mitigate Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/22/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities For Hydrogen In Appalachia
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[8/15/2022]
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PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 18 On Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater; Methane Regs, Conventional Regs, Well Plugging, More
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[8/15/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Setback Distances And The Regulations We Need To Protect Public Health From Oil & Gas Facilities
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[8/15/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute: 6% Population Loss, 3.3% Job Loss In PA's 'Natural Gas' Counties Show Misplaced Faith In Economic Benefits Of Oil & Gas
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[8/15/2022]
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PUC: 4 Major Electric Utilities Have Double Digit Electric Price Increases Coming Sept. 1 Caused By Spike In Natural Gas, Energy Costs, Hot Weather
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[8/15/2022]
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PA Solar Center Aug. 19 Webinar: A Brighter Future - Solar Energy For PA Schools; Save Millions, Avoid Energy Cost Spikes
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[8/15/2022]
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House Hearing: Development Of Hydrogen Hub In Western PA Offers Benefits, Obstacles
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[8/8/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling: An Industrial Machine Moving Across The PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities & Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes
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[8/8/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Convicted Of Criminal Charges Related To Construction Of Mariner East 2 & Revolution Natural Gas/Liquids Pipelines In PA
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[8/8/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Over 14 Miles Of 16-Inch & 24-Inch Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Project In Susquehanna County
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[8/8/2022]
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DEP Inviting Stakeholders To Participate In Workgroups On New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[8/8/2022]
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TribLive Guest Essay: EPA Must Address Natural Gas Leaks That Are Harming Our Children
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[8/8/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Asthma And Air Pollution From Natural Gas Drilling/Facilities
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[8/8/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Disapprove Final Reg. To Reduce VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities Risking $500 Million In Federal Highway Funds
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[8/8/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Public Health Impacts Of Blue Hydrogen Production, Health, Environmental Protections Needed
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[8/8/2022]
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30+ PA Environmental Advocates Release Shared Vision For Pennsylvania's Environment & Communities As A Guide For Candidates For Governor, Senate, House
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[8/1/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards
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[8/1/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
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[8/1/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Profile: Dr. John Stolz, Duquesne University - Monitoring Impact Of Shale Gas Extraction On Private Water Wells, Groundwater In SW PA
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[8/1/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine
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[8/1/2022]
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16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July
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[8/1/2022]
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Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused By Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Makes It Unsuitable For A Dust Suppressant, Washes Right Off The Road Into The Ditch
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[8/1/2022]
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House Committee Meets Aug. 2 To Disapprove Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Blocking The Rule Will Mean Loss Of Federal Highway Funds
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[8/1/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Harnessing Hydrogen: Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities In Appalachia
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[7/25/2022]
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Gov. Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions
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[7/25/2022]
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DEP Concerned About Impact Of New Law Blocking Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding On New Federal Well Plugging Funds, Regulating Waste Injection Wells
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[7/25/2022]
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IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities; DEP Moves To Avoid Federal Highway Funding Sanctions
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[7/25/2022]
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Natural Gas Producer Olympus Energy Earns Premier Environmental Performance Ratings From Project Canary
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[7/25/2022]
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Guest Essay: Key To Lower Energy Prices And Energy Freedom Is Diversifying Electricity Generation With Solar, Renewable Energy
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[7/25/2022]
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DEP To Hold 2 Hearings On Air Quality Permit For Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Leachate Evaporation System
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[7/25/2022]
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Sen. Yaw To Deny Counties Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue If They Make Only 99% Of Their Land Area Available For Shale Gas Development
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[7/25/2022]
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The Feds
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[7/18/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets July 25 To Hear Presentation On Penn State Study On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[7/18/2022]
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Bradford Era: 24-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Ruptures, Explodes In McKean County Causing Wildfire; Force Majeure Declared In 2 States
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[7/18/2022]
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EQB: DEP Continues Review Of Oil & Gas Well Bonding Petitions; Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reg Coming Soon; Approves Municipal Waste Recycling General Permit
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[7/18/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Approve Letter To IRRC Sets Up Disapproval Of Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Reg. Risking Millions In Federal Highway Funds
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[7/18/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[7/18/2022]
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Guest Essay: Gov. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry
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[7/11/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1 Billion Cleanup Liability For Taxpayers
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council: Without A Veto Of HB 2644, PA's Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Problem May Be All But Permanent
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[7/11/2022]
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DEP Issues 20% More NOVs To Oil & Gas Well Drillers For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2nd Quarter
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council/Environmental Defense Fund + 12 Other Groups: HB 2644 Unjustifiably Limits Bonding For Oil & Gas Wells, Risks Eligibility For Federal Well Plugging Funds
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[7/11/2022]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Urges Senate To Vote Against The HB 2644 Subsidy & Bailout For Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers - ‘Stop Rewarding Industry For Not Being Responsible’
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[7/11/2022]
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At The Request Of The Natural Gas Industry, House, Senate Give Final Approval To Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[7/11/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 19 To Hear Presentations On Carbon Capture/Sequestration, Chapter 105 Regulatory Changes
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In June
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[7/11/2022]
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House Committee Meets July 11 On Letter To IRRC Opposing Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulation
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[7/4/2022]
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Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land
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[7/4/2022]
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Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[7/4/2022]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Testifies In Congress On Need To Require Real Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding Reform, Defend Our Children’s Health & Taxpayers By Fixing Oil & Gas Facility Methane Leaks
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[7/4/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Change To United Refining Company Air Quality Permit Adding Emission Limit For Sulfur Dioxide In Warren
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[6/27/2022]
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Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[6/27/2022]
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New General Assembly-Mandated General Permit Allows Unconventional Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facilities To ‘Pop-Up’ Within 300 Feet Of You Without Notice
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[6/27/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 Million Growth In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Collected In 2023; Lowest Ever Effective Tax Rate Of 0.6%
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[6/27/2022]
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New Muhlenberg Poll Finds 77% Of Pennsylvanians Believe Climate Change Is A Serious Problem; 55% Believe Human Actions Are To Blame
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[6/27/2022]
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Appalachian Voices: Biden Administration Announces Programs Included In The Justice40 Initiative From 4 Agencies To Help Disadvantaged Communities
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[6/20/2022]
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Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House To Take Up Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[6/20/2022]
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EQB Adopts Part I Of Reg. Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; IRRC Considers July 21
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[6/20/2022]
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Post-Gazette Editorial: PA Republican Lawmakers Poised To Cost PA Billions In Highway Funding At Behest Of Oil & Gas Industry
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[6/20/2022]
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Oil & Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Bill Introduced In The House
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[6/20/2022]
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Penn State Beaver Seeking Volunteers For June 23 Focus Group On Energy Development, Groundwater Quality & Public Health In Western PA
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[6/20/2022]
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PUC Distributes $234 Million In 2021 Revenue From Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee; Represents Lowest Effective Tax Rate On Natural Gas Companies On Record - IFO
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[6/20/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Update June 21 On Oil & Gas Advisory Board Activities; Discuss Legacy Issues Report; Transition Paper
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[6/20/2022]
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PA Dept. Of Agriculture Temporarily Suspends Requirement For 2% Biodiesel For Out-Of-State Fuel Sold In PA In Response To Rolling Outages Of Diesel Fuel
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[6/13/2022]
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On-Site Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Disposal Plans Making Hundreds Of Drilling Sites Waste Dumps
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[6/13/2022]
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Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act
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[6/13/2022]
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House Republicans Side With Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers, Against Taxpayers, To Continue Pre-1985 Exemption From Well Bonding, Prevent Any Increase In Plugging Bond Amounts
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[6/13/2022]
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Senate Republicans, At Request Of Natural Gas Industry, OK Bill To Take Away Protections In Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities
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[6/13/2022]
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DEP Releases Final Guidance On Handling Radioactive Waste From Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Operations
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[6/13/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office: Cost Of Gasoline, Energy Utility Bills Up 33% From Last Year
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[6/13/2022]
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AG Shapiro Charges Energy Corporation Of America/Greylock, 2 Employees With Environmental Crimes Involving Leaks At Oil & Gas Well Sites In Clearfield, Greene Counties
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[6/6/2022]
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DEP Advises 18 Municipalities Where Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Occurring The Practice Is Illegal And Considered Waste Disposal
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[6/6/2022]
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Who Is Protecting Taxpayers? House Committee Meets June 7 On Bills To Preempt Any Increase In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts, Give Away Plugging Contracts With No Regard For Cost
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[6/6/2022]
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Senate Committee Meets June 8 On Bills To Change Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities, Deep Mine Safety Requirements
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[6/6/2022]
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Senate Committee Meets June 7 On Bill To Prohibit Communities From Moving To Clean, Cheaper Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[6/6/2022]
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EQB Meets June 14 On Revised Final Regulation Reducing Methane Emissions From Just Unconventional (Shale Gas) Wells, Facilities; Working On Conventional Reg.
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[6/6/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance June 15 Webinar - Proposed EPA Rule Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions
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[5/30/2022]
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New Penn State Study Finds Runoff From Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On Unpaved Roads Contains Pollutants That Exceed Human-Health, Environmental Standards
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[5/30/2022]
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DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority
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[5/30/2022]
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Earthworks, FracTracker Alliance Release New Online Oil & Gas Threat Map; Find Natural Gas Facilities, Wells Near You
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[5/30/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports Lowest Quarterly Natural Gas Production In PA Since 4th Quarter Of 2020, First Decrease In Production Growth Since 2018
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[5/30/2022]
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Pittsburgh International Airport, CNX Announce Strategy To Reduce Emissions, Costs For Transportation, Other Industries
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[5/30/2022]
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Clean Air Council Announces Voluntary Settlement With Energy Transfer Over Air Permits For Marcus Hook Natural Gas Liquids Plant
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[5/23/2022]
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DEP Plans To Present A ‘Narrower Version’ Of Final Oil & Gas Methane Emission Reduction Reg. To EQB At June Meeting
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[5/23/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Aggressive Push To Secure Clean Hydrogen Hub In PA
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[5/23/2022]
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Guest Essay: When People Have To Choose Health Or Jobs, Everyone Loses - The View From Rachel Carson’s Homestead In Allegheny County
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[5/23/2022]
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University Of Houston: Shale Gas Wastewater Could Be Substantial Source Of Lithium
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[5/23/2022]
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House Local Govt. Committee Meets May 25 On Bill To Prohibit Communities From Moving To Clean, Cheaper Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[5/23/2022]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds June 2 Hearing On Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Infrastructure In Allegheny County
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[5/16/2022]
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Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads
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[5/16/2022]
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Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest
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[5/16/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash
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[5/16/2022]
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DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October
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[5/16/2022]
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Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality
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[5/16/2022]
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Clean Air Council Hosts May 18 Webinar On Oil & Gas Threat Map By Earthworks
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[5/9/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Dispose Of Drill Cuttings By ‘Dusting’ - Blowing Them On The Ground, And In The Air Around Drill Sites
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[5/9/2022]
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Post-Gazette: DEP Evaluating Whether To Resubmit Oil & Gas Methane Rule To EQB To Address Concerns About A Separate Conventional Oil & Gas Rule
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[5/9/2022]
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Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Deregulate Oil & Gas Industry, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Open State Forests To Drilling, Withdrawn From RGGI
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[5/9/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 18 To Hear Presentation On DEP’s Expanded Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
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[5/9/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Meets May 18 On Vanadium Standard, Coal Refuse Disposal Regulations
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Latest Penn State Report On Environmental Impact Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater Will Have ‘Immediate,’ ‘Large,’ ‘Intense’ Impact In PA, Nationally
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Draft Updates Coming To Regs. On Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Disposal As Early As July; Waste Reporting Changes Invited
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[5/2/2022]
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Financial Assurance, Plugging Regulations To Be Reviewed To Prevent New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Plugging Program
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Prompting Review Of On-Site Disposal Options For Oil & Gas Well Plugging Wastes; Radioactive Waste Disposal
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP Not Seeing Uptick In Oil & Gas Drilling; Expects $8 Million Deficit In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
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[5/2/2022]
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Physicians For Social Responsibility Release 8th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings On Risks, Harms Of Fracking And Oil & Gas Infrastructure
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[5/2/2022]
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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
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[4/25/2022]
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Attorney General’s Office Reported To Be Investigating Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Illegally Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater
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[4/25/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Continued To Illegally Road Dump Over 580,000 Gallons Of Drilling Wastewater In 2021
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[4/25/2022]
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DEP To Host Online Information Event On Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program April 28
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[4/25/2022]
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DEP Update On United Refining Company Naphtha Storage Tank Roof Failure In Warren
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[4/25/2022]
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EPA Releases White Paper For Comment On Reducing Climate Pollution From New Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation
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[4/18/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Has Spill Reporting, Funding For Well Plugging; Permit Fees; Carbon Capture; New Regs On April 25 Agenda
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[4/18/2022]
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UPDATED with Agenda/Location/Remote Access: DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets April 21 On Conventional Drilling Issues
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[4/18/2022]
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New Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy Lacks Resources To Plug Wells, Including 22,507 Wells In PA
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[4/18/2022]
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DEP Signed 2 Consent Agreements With PBF Petroleum Terminal On The Schuylkill River In Philadelphia For Storage Tank, Clean Streams Law Violations; Penalties Total $1,050,000
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[4/18/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Center For Energy Policy & Management Hosts April 20 Webinar On Hydrogen: The Future Of Clean Energy?
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[4/18/2022]
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Dog Whistles: House Republicans Pass Bills Adding More Bureaucracy To DEP Permits Reviews; Pretending To Increase Natural Gas Production In PA
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[4/18/2022]
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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill Promoting Carbon Capture, Utilization And Sequestration
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[4/11/2022]
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Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them
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[4/11/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Lackawanna Energy Center Gas-Fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County At May 25 Hearing
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[4/11/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host April 20 Webinar On Clean Energy And Energy Independence
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[4/11/2022]
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6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: Number Of New Natural Gas Wells Drilled In First Quarter Declined By Over 25% In PA Compared To 2021, 2020
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[4/4/2022]
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Bay Journal: Ukraine War Triggers Push For More Fracking In Pennsylvania
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[4/4/2022]
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Federal Court Hears Senate Republican Caucus Appeal For Standing In Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Ban On Fracking
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[4/4/2022]
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Republican Chair Of House Environmental Committee Believes Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure Projects ‘Just Need To Be Ignored And Politically Ran Over’
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[4/4/2022]
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Majority Chair Of Senate Committee Calls Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure ‘Radical Environmentalists,’ Arguments By Supporters Of RGGI ‘Hysteria’
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[4/4/2022]
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6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: ‘Drillers Continue To Return Cash To Shareholders… Rather Than Boost Production’
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[4/4/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Move Bills To Unleash Natural Gas Industry In Pennsylvania, Kill RGGI
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[4/4/2022]
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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI
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[3/28/2022]
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A Voluntary Settlement Of An EHB Appeal By All Parties Requires Developers Of A Bradford County Liquified Natural Gas Facility To Apply For New Air Quality Permit
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[3/28/2022]
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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
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[3/28/2022]
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Republican Rep. Fritz Introduces Bills To Unilaterally Amend Delaware River Basin Commission Compact To End Fracking Moratorium
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[3/28/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 30 Webinar On Two Approaches To Reducing Natural Gas Methane Emissions
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[3/28/2022]
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U.S. EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2022 - Renewables Fastest Growing Energy; Falling Costs Means Robust Competition With Natural Gas; Electricity Fastest Growing Energy Source In Buildings
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[3/28/2022]
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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
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[3/28/2022]
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Governor’s Office Posts Updated Agency-By-Agency Agenda Of Regulations In Development
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[3/28/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold March 28 Infomercial On Oil & Gas Byproducts - Could We Live Without Them?
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[3/28/2022]
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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
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[3/21/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Approves Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations; Conventional Drillers Oppose
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[3/21/2022]
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Kurt Klapkowski Serving As DEP Acting Deputy Secretary For Oil & Gas Management
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[3/21/2022]
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6th Oil/Gas Shock: Listen To What Europe Says They Need - Not What The U.S. Oil/Gas Industry Wants
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[3/21/2022]
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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania And Virginia Face Fight Of Their Lives - [What The Coal, Natural Gas Industries Want In PA]
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[3/21/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA Republican Suggestions To Make Us More Dependent On Fossil Fuels Will Not Secure Our Energy Future
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[3/21/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters: Let's Have A Cleaner, Healthier Energy Future For Pennsylvania
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[3/21/2022]
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Vesper Energy Developing 200 MW Solar Energy Project In Lawrence County
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[3/21/2022]
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Community College Of Allegheny County Flipped The Switch On Completed Solar Energy Installation
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[3/21/2022]
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University Of Pittsburgh Announces Climate Action Plan To Go Carbon Neutral By 2037
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[3/21/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold March 28 Hearing: Oil & Gas Byproducts - Could We Live Without Them?
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[3/21/2022]
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Rescheduled: Senate Committees Will Now Hold March 29 Hearing On Economic Impacts Of DEP Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants
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[3/14/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry And Their Politicians Are Pushing Hard To Hook Us To Volatile Foreign Energy Markets Where There Is No Limit On What They Can Charge You
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[3/14/2022]
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New European Commission REPowerEU Plan Does Not Justify Dramatic Increase In Drilling, Gas Infrastructure Build Out PA Natural Gas Politicians Calling For
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[3/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’
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[3/14/2022]
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2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA
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[3/7/2022]
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12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties
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[3/7/2022]
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DEP Budget Hearing: 40% Of Unconventional Natural Gas Well Permits Issued By DEP Were Not Used By Drillers
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[3/7/2022]
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Republican Senators Propose Gas Drilling On At Least 22,000 More Acres Of State Forest, Mining 920 Acres Of Coal Under A State Park To Pay For DCNR Infrastructure Backlog
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[3/7/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Meets March 15 To Consider Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[3/7/2022]
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Penn State Researchers To Study Links Between Fracking, Water Contamination In Southwestern PA; Follows Similar Study In NE PA That Found Water Contamination
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[3/7/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Holding 3 Webinars On Using Maps & Data To Empower Action Starting March 8
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[3/7/2022]
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Register Now For 2022 Shale Network Workshop In State College May 12-13
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[3/7/2022]
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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
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 60 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued 10 NOVs Or More For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In One Year
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[2/28/2022]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 6.8% In 2021
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[2/28/2022]
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True Energy Independence Means More Renewables, Not Letting Foreign Markets Or Despots Dictate What We Pay For Energy
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[2/28/2022]
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U.S. DOE Hosts March 30 Webinar On Repurposing Fossil Energy Assets
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[2/21/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Pay Only $46,100 Of The $10,600,000 It Costs DEP To Regulate That Industry; Taxpayers May Be Asked To Pay The Difference
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[2/14/2022]
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DEP To Prohibit Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers With Unresolved Environmental Violations From Getting Conventional Well Plugging Contracts; 133 Companies Interested In Doing Well Plugging Work
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[2/14/2022]
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Representative Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Compares Their History In PA To The Holy Bible - But He Left Out Some Parts
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[2/14/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts Feb. 15 Webinar On Proposed Increase In Oil & Gas Well Bond Amounts To Protect Taxpayers From Paying To Plug Wells Conventional, Unconventional Drillers Abandon
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[2/14/2022]
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Scott Perry No Longer DEP Deputy For Oil & Gas Management
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6% Deficit, In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program To EQB Feb. 15; Conventional Drillers Only Pay 0.4% Of Their Regulatory Costs
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP Receives First $25 Million From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law For Plugging Oil & Gas Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Sunoco Pipeline LNG Pumping Station Air Permit In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
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[2/7/2022]
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Guest Essay: Environmentalists Say 'No' To Nacero Natural Gas To Gasoline Refinery
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[2/7/2022]
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Joel Burcat To Release Another Environmental Legal Thriller: Strange Fire
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[2/7/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Feb. 16 Webinar On First in the World: An Airport That Generates Its Own Power [Spoiler, It’s Pittsburgh]
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[2/7/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Feb. 9 Webinar On Methane Emissions And Our Health
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[2/7/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold Feb. 7 Information Meeting On DEP’s Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program For Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
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[2/7/2022]
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PA State Treasurer Garrity Calls On Biden To Withdraw Fed Nominee Because She Advocates For Sustainable Investments And Is A Threat To Oil, Gas, Coal Companies
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[2/7/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior: Comments Invited On American Conservation & Stewardship Atlas To Track Stewardship, Restoration Efforts
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[1/31/2022]
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DCNR Bans Use Of Oil & Gas Wastewater On Its Over 6,500 Miles Of Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads
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[1/31/2022]
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Good Samaritan Proposal Would Plug An Oil & Gas Well Abandoned By A Conventional Driller In Westmoreland County
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[1/31/2022]
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At The Request Of The Natural Gas Industry, House Republicans Pass Bill To Stop Communities From Adopting All-Electric Building Codes
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[1/24/2022]
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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds
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[1/24/2022]
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IFO: 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue $233.8 Million; Still Short Of 2018 Revenue Of $251.8 Million
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[1/24/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Adds Feb. 3 Hearing On Proposed Fracking Wastewater Regulations
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[1/24/2022]
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Post-Gazette Editorial: Sale Of Last Coal-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County Good Sign For Post-Coal Economy
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[1/24/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts Jan. 25 Lunch & Learn Program With CMU's Nicholas Muller On Cumulative Impacts Of Shale Gas Boom
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[1/24/2022]
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EPA Invites Proposals On Research Into Drivers & Environmental Impacts Of Energy Transitions In Underserved Communities
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[1/24/2022]
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U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
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[1/17/2022]
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PA Professional Geologists: Feb. 16 Webinar: Dust Suppression With Oil & Gas Produced Water Featuring Author Of Penn State Study Finding Increased Cancer Risks With Road Spreading
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP Proposes New, Limited General Permit For Processing, Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Wastes; No Chemical Concentration Limits Or Public Review Of Individual Permit Uses Are Included
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 7 Orphan Oil & Gas Wells In Warren County
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[1/10/2022]
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DEP Draft Rule Does Not Ban Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Industry Objects To Waste Reporting Provisions
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[1/10/2022]
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Sign Better Path Coalition Petition: DEP - Keep ALL Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Our Roads!
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[1/10/2022]
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Better Path Coalition Presents Jan. 12 Webinar On Road Spreading Drilling Wastewater, Why Hasn't It Stopped?
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[1/10/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Press DEP To Reduce Environmental Safeguards For Drilling And Treat Them The Same As Wind, Solar Energy Facilities
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[1/10/2022]
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. Stands Up To Natural Gas Interests
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[1/10/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Feb. 22 Shale Gas & Public Health: Translating Science Into Policy Public Health Summit
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[1/10/2022]
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Sen. Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050
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[1/3/2022]
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In 2021 Initiatives By The Biden Administration, Congress Make Historic Investments In Cleaning Up PA’s Environment; How To Invest $11 Billion Remains Up In The Air
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[1/3/2022]
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DEP Lists 84 Townships As ‘Waste Facilities’ Where Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Has Been Disposed Of By Road Spreading; Municipalities Need To Do Their Due Diligence
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[12/20/2021]
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Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations
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[12/20/2021]
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Better Path Coalition Report: How To Close The Loophole Allowing Uncontrolled Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater & Fix Oil and Gas Waste Reporting System
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[12/20/2021]
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PA-Based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Keeping Up The Pressure Following Historic Rights Of Nature Victory In Ecuador
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[12/20/2021]
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Now On Demand: Physicians For Social Responsibility-PA Host Virtual Conference On Health Hazards Of Oil & Gas Industry In Pennsylvania
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[12/13/2021]
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DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. 16 On Road Spreading Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Other Issues
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[12/13/2021]
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Now On Demand: Videos From 2021 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference; Including Preliminary Results Of A Penn State Study On Health Risks From Road Spreading Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[12/13/2021]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Disappointed In Final DEP Draft Reg. To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[12/13/2021]
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Bay Journal: Massive Aid On Way To Plug Pollution From Oil, Gas Wells In Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Act
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[12/13/2021]
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FracTracker Alliance, Halt The Harm Network To Honor 4 With Sentinel Awards At Dec. 9 Program
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[12/13/2021]
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Penn State: Switch From Coal To Natural Gas Reducing Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, Can Improve Water Quality In Some Streams
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[12/13/2021]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: Gas Industry Has Succeeded Coal & Railroad Industries In Making PA General Assembly A Nearly Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
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[12/6/2021]
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PA Supreme Court: UGI Can Be Held Liable For Taking Natural Gas Rights Around A Tioga County Natural Gas Storage Field To Form A Proposed 3,000 Acre Buffer
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[12/6/2021]
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Environmental Defense Fund Experts Testify At EPA Hearings On Proposed Federal Rules Reducing Oil & Gas Industry Methane Emissions
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[11/29/2021]
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PUC: Electric Utilities To Increase Cost Of Electricity They Provide To Non-Shopping Customers Dec. 1, Some As High As 50%; Increases Driven By Price Of Natural Gas
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[11/29/2021]
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IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Prices Increased 187.1% In Last Year, Higher Than Henry Hub Price
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[11/29/2021]
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PUC Natural Gas Winter Reliability Reports - Heating Bills Will Be Significantly More Expensive This Winter
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[11/22/2021]
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A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards
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[11/22/2021]
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Preliminary Results From New Penn State Study Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children
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[11/22/2021]
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New Pitt-Duquesne Study Shows Higher Exposures To Radiation In Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater When Appropriate Exposure Scenarios Are Used
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[11/22/2021]
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Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, FracTracker Alliance Call On Citizens To Report Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads
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[11/22/2021]
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Trout Unlimited: What Do Pennsylvania's Dirt And Gravel Roads Have To Do With Trout?
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[11/22/2021]
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The Allegheny Front/Environmental Health News: Pollution’s Mental Toll: How Air, Water And Climate Pollution Shape Our Mental Health
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[11/22/2021]
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EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
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[11/22/2021]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition Challenges EQB Authority To Increase Bond Amounts For Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
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[11/22/2021]
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DCNR Signs Oil & Gas Lease Agreement For 198.5 Acres Of Publicly-Owned Streambeds In Wyoming County For $794,000 + Royalties
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[11/22/2021]
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DRBC Extends Comment Period On Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From Fracking Operations & Ban On Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products
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[11/22/2021]
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WPCAMR: New Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Addresses PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem; Questions About What Projects Can Be Funded
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[11/22/2021]
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Evangelical Environmental Network: Signing Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Good News For Our Children, Communities And Country
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[11/22/2021]
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EPA Sets Nov. 30, Dec. 1 Hearings On Proposal To Cut Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[11/15/2021]
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Bay Journal: Dirt Roads & Drilling Wastewater - Dustup Rises Over Health Issues
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[11/15/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks The PA Supreme Court To Overturn Lower Court Ruling Challenging DCNR's State Forest Plan Allowing Gas Drilling
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[11/15/2021]
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U.S. EIA Short Term Energy Outlook Sees Continued High Energy Costs Into 2022, Decreases Later; Growth Of Renewables; Carbon Dioxide Still Short Of 2019 Levels
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[11/8/2021]
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DEP To Recommend Environmental Quality Board Accept Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding Nov. 16; Also Considers Proposed PFOA/PFOS MCL Standard
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[11/8/2021]
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Guest Essay: Making Sense Of A Volatile Energy Market
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[11/8/2021]
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PJM And Members Prepare To Serve Winter Electricity Demand; Adds Changes Dealing With Coal, Natural Gas Issues
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[11/8/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal Air Permit For Invenergy Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County
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[11/1/2021]
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The Science Says: Spreading Conventional Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads Can Harm Aquatic Life, Poses Health Risks To Humans - And It Damages The Roads
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[11/1/2021]
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DRBC Posts Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From High Volume Hydraulic Fracking Oil And Gas Drilling Operations; Bans Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products
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[11/1/2021]
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Guest Essay: Heed The Warning - A Few Extremists Threaten PA's Energy Leadership
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[11/1/2021]
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Nacero To Build A Natural Gas - Renewable Natural Gas To Gasoline Production Plant in Luzerne County
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[11/1/2021]
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ReImagine Appalachia: Updated Build Back Better Framework Sets Stage For Job-Creating Investment in Healthier, More Prosperous Future for Appalachia
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[10/25/2021]
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How The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry Eliminated Any Restrictions On The Disposal Of Millions Of Gallons Of Its Wastewater On PA’s Dirt & Gravel Roads
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[10/25/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On Plugging Abandoned Well In Potter County
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[10/25/2021]
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PUC Approves UGI Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Project
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[10/18/2021]
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Coalition Launches Initiative To Promote Safer Setback Distances From Oil & Gas Drilling, Infrastructure
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[10/18/2021]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020
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[10/18/2021]
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DOE's Roosevelt Project Case Study Shows How Southwestern PA Can Thrive In A Low-Carbon Energy Future
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[10/18/2021]
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CONSOL Energy Sets Goals Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50% By 2026, Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2040; Coal Mining Produces More GHG Emissions Than Natural Gas Production In PA
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[10/18/2021]
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Senate Committee Meets Oct. 19 To Consider Bill That Prohibits Communities From Promoting Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency
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[10/11/2021]
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17 Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Operators Under Review By DEP To Determine If They Comply With Program Allowing Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[10/11/2021]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites
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[10/11/2021]
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80 Organizations, 1,800+ Concerned Citizens To DEP: Ban Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Dept. Of Health Unaware Road Dumping Is Occurring
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[10/11/2021]
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65+ Groups Ask Biden Administration To Reclassify Oil & Gas Drilling Waste As 'Hazardous' To Prevent Road Dumping Of Wastewater And Other Practices
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[10/11/2021]
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DEP Invites Companies Involved In All Aspects Of Oil & Gas Well Plugging To Take A Survey
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[10/11/2021]
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Independent Fiscal Office Estimates Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Increase By Nearly $75 Million In 2022
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[10/11/2021]
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Sen. Comitta Calls For Hearings On The Failure Of Pennsylvania To Invest In Clean Energy Infrastructure
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[10/11/2021]
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FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship
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[10/4/2021]
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DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept. Not Aware Of All Chemicals In Oil & Gas Wastewater Making Risk Assessment Difficult
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[10/4/2021]
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Health Advocacy Groups Meet With State Dept. Of Health, DEP To Discuss Residents Impacted By Shale Gas Emissions
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[10/4/2021]
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DEP Terminates Proposed Beech Hollow Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant's Air Quality Permit In Washington County At Company’s Request
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[10/4/2021]
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TribLive Editorial: Why Do Pennsylvanians Have To Pay A Higher Price For Natural Gas? For Producing Energy?
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[10/4/2021]
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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
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[9/27/2021]
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More Than 60 Environmental Groups, Green Party Of PA Oppose Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Rural PA Roads
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[9/27/2021]
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Well Done Foundation, Seneca Resources Partner On Orphaned Well Plugging Project In McKean County
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[9/27/2021]
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Senate Committee Meets Sept. 28 On Bills Allocating A Portion Of American Rescue Fund Monies For Local Environmental Improvement Projects + Fake Solution To Nutrient Pollution
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[9/20/2021]
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Environmental Groups Submit Rulemaking Petitions To Environmental Quality Board Asking For Full-Cost Bonding For Oil & Gas Well Plugging
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[9/20/2021]
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Guest Essay: A Modern Civilian Conservation Corps Could Transform PA, Beyond
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[9/20/2021]
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Guest Essay: Carbon Capture And Storage - A False Solution
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[9/20/2021]
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Clean Air Council Appeals Air Quality Permit For Beech Hollow Gas-Fired Power Plant In Washington County
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[9/13/2021]
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DEP Fails To Address Loophole That Continues To Allow Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater; Members Of Public Register Their Opposition To All Road Dumping
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[9/13/2021]
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National Fuel Gas Announces Target Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 25% By 2030
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[9/6/2021]
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Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Million Gallons Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Dumped On PA Roads
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[9/6/2021]
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Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Radiation Monitoring Of Drilling Wastes; More On DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Agenda Sept. 9
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[9/6/2021]
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DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Area Of Review For Unconventional Oil & Gas Drilling Permits
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[8/30/2021]
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Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies: Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Wastewater To Control Dust Is Environmentally Unsound Practice
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[8/30/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal Air Permit Extension For Proposed Liquefied Natural Gas Plant In Bradford County That Would Emit 1 Million Tons Of Greenhouse Gases A Year
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[8/30/2021]
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DEP Proposes Policy On Prioritizing Review Of Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permits
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[8/30/2021]
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DEP Issues Final Guidance On Underground Coal Mining Adjacent To Unconventional Gas Wells
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[8/30/2021]
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IFO Report: Quarterly Natural Gas Production Increases 7.8%, Strongest Growth In Nearly 2 Years
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[8/30/2021]
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Gov. Wolf Unveils State Forest Action Plan To Address Next 10 Years Of Strategic Initiatives In PA Forests; Shale Gas Development Promotes Forest Fragmentation
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[8/23/2021]
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New Penn State Study Shows Road Dumping Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Has Little Dust Suppression Benefit, Contains Pollutants Harmful To Human Health, Agriculture, Aquatic Life
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[8/23/2021]
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DEP To Propose Regulations Allowing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Across PA
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[8/23/2021]
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Now On Demand: Webinar- Radioactivity In Fracking - Too Hot To Handle With Scientist/Author Justin Nobel
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[8/23/2021]
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Guest Essay: FracTracker Response To Marcellus Shale Coalition On Lycoming Creek Watershed Digital Atlas Of Unconventional Gas Drilling Impacts
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[8/23/2021]
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Save PA’s Forests Coalition Hosts Aug. 25 Webinar On Watersheds And Wilderness At Risk From Natural Gas Development
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[8/16/2021]
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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Should Enact Methane Regulations
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[8/16/2021]
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PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 19 To Hear Update On Penn State Study Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Continue Review Of Draft Conventional Drilling Regs.
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[8/16/2021]
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Appalachian Voices: U.S. Senate-Passed Infrastructure Bill Includes Largest-Ever Investment In Reclaiming Coal Lands
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[8/9/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Petition In Court To Order Commonwealth To Return $1.3 Billion In Revenue From State Forest Drilling Unconstitutionally Transferred From Oil & Gas Lease Fund
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[8/9/2021]
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Dept. Of Health Visits Communities And Families Impacted By Shale Gas Development, Hears Firsthand Accounts Of Health Harms
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[8/2/2021]
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Dangers Posed By Oil & Gas Drilling Wastes, Abandoned Wells + Siri Lawson’s Story From Warren County
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[7/26/2021]
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PA Supreme Court Again Declares Transfers From DCNR Oil & Gas Fund Unconstitutional Under Environmental Rights Amendment
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[6/7/2021]
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DEP: Olympus Energy Natural Gas Driller Fined $175,000 For Water Quality Violations In Allegheny County
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[5/30/2021]
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Axios: Republican State Treasurer Garrity Threatens To Withdraw State Funds From Banks Not Lending To Coal & Natural Gas Companies
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[5/30/2021]
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House Republicans Pass Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Wastewater, Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards
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[5/30/2021]
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81 Groups, 3,342 Individuals Express Opposition To Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[5/30/2021]
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Senate Committees Hear New, Proposed Utility Scale Solar Electric Generation Capacity In PA Is Outpacing Natural Gas Generation By Nearly 3 to 1
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[5/30/2021]
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Senate Democrats, AG Shapiro Announce Legislation To Address Issues Raised In Grand Jury Report On Natural Gas Fracking
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[5/30/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Air Quality Permit For Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant In Clinton County
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[5/30/2021]
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IFO: PA Quarterly Natural Gas Production Continues Steady Increase; PA Price Of Gas Increases 64.4%
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[5/24/2021]
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Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Well Wastewater Is Happening Now In Crawford, Erie, Warren Counties As House Prepares To Take Up Bill This Week To Make It Legal
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[5/24/2021]
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EPA Schedules Virtual Listening Sessions In June On Controlling Air Pollution From The Oil & Gas Industry
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[5/24/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets June 17 Virtual Business Meeting
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[5/24/2021]
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Presentation Proposals Now Being Accepted For 2021 Virtual Watershed Congress Sept. 20-24
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[5/24/2021]
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Federal Court Approves DEP, EPA, DOJ Settlement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites, $1.9 Million Penalty
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[5/17/2021]
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Local Governments, Others Oppose Senate Bill That Limits Local Choice In Clean Energy Sources, Locks In Status Quo, Negates Local Democracy, With Overly Broad Language To Address A Problem That Doesn’t Exist In PA
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[5/17/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 6 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Venango County
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[5/10/2021]
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Bay Journal: PA Natural Gas Industry Embarrassed By 3 Environmental Scandals In 15 Months
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[5/10/2021]
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Republicans On House Committee OK Bill To Roll Back Environmental Protections From Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling, Legalize Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[5/10/2021]
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Environmental Defense Fund, PA Environmental Council Say Conventional Drilling Bill Would Result In Dramatic Reductions To Environmental Protection Standards
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[5/10/2021]
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Berks Gas Truth: Thousands Tell House They Don't Want Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[5/10/2021]
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Penn State Center For Agricultural And Shale Law: Agricultural Law Weekly Review
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[5/3/2021]
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House Committee Meets May 4 On Bill To Roll Back Environmental Protections From Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling, Legalize Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[5/3/2021]
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Good Samaritan Proposal To Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Well In Allegheny County
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[5/3/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Online May 6 Hearing, June 17 Business Meeting
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[4/26/2021]
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Commonwealth Financing Authority Announces $15+ Million In Act 13 Funding For 135 Environmental, Water Infrastructure Projects
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[4/19/2021]
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Bucks, Montgomery Counties Join Opposition To PA Senate Republican Caucus Court Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Fracking Ban
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[4/19/2021]
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Muhlenberg Poll Finds Heath Concerns Over Fracking, Climate Change Decline In PA
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[4/19/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Meets April 19 On Benefits Of Conventional Oil & Gas Industry
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[4/19/2021]
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PA Grade Crude (Oil) Development Advisory Council Meets April 22 On Draft Conventional Drilling Rules; Update On Road-Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Study
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[4/19/2021]
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Biden Administration Releases Pennsylvania Infrastructure Needs Report
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[4/19/2021]
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Project Canary, Chesapeake Energy Announce Partnership To Produce Certified Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas
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[4/19/2021]
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EQT Natural Gas Announces Commitment To Seek Independent Natural Gas Certification Under Equitable Origin, MiQ Standards For 200 Wells In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/12/2021]
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Republican Bills Again Seek To Make Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Legal
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[4/12/2021]
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U.S. DOE Announces $35 Million In Grants Available For Technologies To Reduce Methane Emissions In Oil, Gas, Coal Industries
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[4/12/2021]
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DCNR, DEP Begin Plugging 12 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Cornplanter State Forest, Forest County
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[3/29/2021]
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Federal Court Grants Request For 16 PA Senate Democrats To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Caucus Legal Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[3/29/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Proposed Rule, Groundwater Review Policies For Comment, Including New Pre-Drilling Well Site Review Policy
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[3/29/2021]
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DEP, EPA, DOJ Reach $1.9 Million Agreement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites
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[3/22/2021]
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35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking
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[3/22/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Project To Plug Abandoned Well In Allegheny County
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[3/22/2021]
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Clara Township Residents Push Home Rule To Protect Environment From Drilling Waste Injection Well In Potter County
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[3/22/2021]
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DEP Accepting Comments On 64 Applications For General Permit Coverage For Processing, Reuse Of Liquid Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[3/22/2021]
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International Insurance Firm Swiss Re Group Announces Climate Targets-- Exit Coal Business By 2030, Withdraw From Supporting Oil & Gas Production
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[3/15/2021]
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Sen. Yaw: DCNR Should Raise Money By Leasing More State Forest Land For Natural Gas Drilling; Fails To Deal With $1 Billion DCNR Infrastructure Needs
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[3/15/2021]
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16 Members Of PA Senate Democratic Caucus Filed Motion To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Caucus Legal Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[3/15/2021]
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AG Shapiro: $5.3 Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners
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[3/15/2021]
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Sen. Yaw Hosts March 23 'Honest Conservation About Energy, The Economy, The Environment' With State Geologist From Texas
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[3/15/2021]
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Dickinson College Clarke Forum Hosts Renowned Poet, Award-Winning Photographer To Discuss Project Documenting Fracking On March 25
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[3/15/2021]
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Registration Now Open For 2021 Shale Network Workshop May 13-14
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[3/15/2021]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Environmental Health News ‘The Body Burden Of Living Near Fracking’ Reporter In March 24 Webinar
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[3/8/2021]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 3.9% In 2020 Over 2019; Impact Fee, Permit Fee Revenue Takes Hit
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[3/1/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks PA Supreme Court To Stop Unconstitutional Diversions Of Revenue From Gas Drilling On State Forest Land That So Far Has Taken Over $829 Million
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[3/1/2021]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Hydraulic Fracking Drilling Activities In Watershed; Will Develop Regs To Manage Drilling Wastewater
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[3/1/2021]
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Delaware RiverKeeper Approved To Intervene In Federal Lawsuit By PA Senate Republican Caucus Against DRBC Ban On Hydraulic Fracking Gas Drilling
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[3/1/2021]
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Sen. Yaw Introduces Bill To Preempt Local Governments From Requiring New Buildings Use Climate-Friendly Energy Sources
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[3/1/2021]
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Philadelphia Energy Co-Op: Swarthmore Combats Climate Change By Switching To Renewable Natural Gas
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[2/22/2021]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 25 Meeting On Final Rule Banning Certain Fracking Activities In Natural Gas Drilling
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[2/22/2021]
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Environmental Groups, DEP Agree To Open Public Comment Period On 49 Previously Approved Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment & Storage Facility Permits
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[2/22/2021]
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Shale Gas Development In PA Increases Exposure Of Nearby Residents To Air Pollutants, Setback Policies Not Effective
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[2/22/2021]
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Songbirds' Reproductive Success Reduced By Natural Gas Pipeline Compressor Noise
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[2/22/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Holds 2nd Meeting Feb. 24 On Proposed Changes To Chapter 105 Regulations
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[2/15/2021]
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DEP: Range Resources Pays $294,000 Penalty For Delaying The Plugging Of 42 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In 8 Counties
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[2/15/2021]
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Delaware RiverKeeper Files To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Lawsuit To Overturn Moratorium On Drilling In Delaware River Watershed
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[2/15/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 24 On Opportunities For Growing PA’s Natural Gas Economy
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[2/8/2021]
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Good Samaritan Proposal To Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Well In Bradford County
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[2/8/2021]
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PA Environmental Council Renews Call For Pennsylvania To Lead On Climate Change And Reducing Carbon Pollution
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[2/1/2021]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees For Calendar 2020 To Drop; Revenue Falls By $56 Million To Record Low
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[1/25/2021]
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DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 5 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[1/18/2021]
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PA Senate Republican Caucus Files Lawsuit Against Delaware River Basin Commission Over Shale Gas Drilling Moratorium
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[1/18/2021]
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DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 11 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[1/11/2021]
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IFO: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee 2020 Revenue To Drop By Over $55.5 Million; Dropped By Over 42% In Just 2 Years
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[1/11/2021]
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Federal Judge Rules Wayne County Landowners' Lawsuit Over Delaware River Basin Commission Drilling Moratorium Will Continue
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[1/4/2021]
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Gov. Dick Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water
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[1/4/2021]
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Op-Ed: Climate Change Is Affecting Us All In Pennsylvania, Especially In Philadelphia
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[12/28/2020]
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Dept. Of Health Awards $2.5 Million Contract To University of Pittsburgh To Research Health Effects Of Hydraulic Fracturing In PA
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[12/28/2020]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Updates Instream Water Monitoring Website With New Features
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[12/21/2020]
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Grant Twp. Indiana County Defends Itself Against Another Lawsuit By PA General Energy Company Over Its Ordinance Banning Drilling Waste Injection Wells Based On Environmental Rights Amendment
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP Projects Nearly 70% Drop In Revenue Supporting Oil & Gas Drilling Regulatory Program Due To Downturn In Industry; Health Impacts Study Report Due This Month
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP Publishes Final, Revised General Permit For Beneficial Use Of Liquid Waste From Fracking Oil & Gas Wells
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[12/21/2020]
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Nanoengineered Cement Shows Promise For Sealing Conventional, Shale Natural Gas Wells Leaking Climate-Damaging Methane
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[12/14/2020]
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DCNR Completes Online StoryMap On Monitoring Gas Development Impacts In State Forests
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[12/14/2020]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Approves Terminal On Delaware River In NJ To Export PA Natural Gas
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[12/14/2020]
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DEP Hosts Dec. 15 Webinar On Transitioning To New ePermitting System For Oil & Gas Well Permits
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[12/7/2020]
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DEP Starts Draft Conventional Oil & Gas Regulations Thru Development Process; Draft Regs Available
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[12/7/2020]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Update On Permit Fees v. Expenses; Oil & Gas Health Studies; Natural Gas Storage Fields; Reg. Update Dec. 16
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[12/7/2020]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In November Now Available
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[11/30/2020]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Republican Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[11/30/2020]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter Natural Gas Production Increased 2%, Price Declined By 42.4% Over Last 18 Months
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[11/23/2020]
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Senate Republicans Send Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling To Governor
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[11/23/2020]
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COVID Pandemic Delayed DCNR’s Shale Gas Drilling Monitoring Efforts In State Forests
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[11/16/2020]
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Senate Republicans To Consider Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Nov. 16
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[11/16/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Nov. 17 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[11/9/2020]
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PEDF Appeals Court Decision To PA Supreme Court Approving The Diversion Of $110 Million In DCNR Drilling Revenue To Pay Agency Operating Costs
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[11/2/2020]
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PA League Of Women Voters, Pitt School Of Public Health Virtual 2020 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Nov. 17-18
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[11/2/2020]
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Environmental Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Air Pollution From Industrial Flares At Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Gas Processing & Compressor Stations
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[10/26/2020]
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Conservation Districts, Join Wildlife, Environmental Groups In Opposing Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[10/26/2020]
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PEDF: Court Decision Approves Diverting $110 Million In Drilling Revenue From State Forest Land To Pay DCNR Operating Costs, Ignoring PA Supreme Court Decision
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[10/26/2020]
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Groups Launch Effort Asking Legislators And Candidates For State Legislature To Sign Pennsylvania Climate Pledge
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[10/19/2020]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Permit For 2 Natural Gas-Fired Power Blocks At Renovo Energy Center, Clinton County
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[10/19/2020]
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DCNR Invites Comments On Proposed Exchange Of Oil & Gas Rights In Elk And Susquehannock State Forests, Potter County
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[10/12/2020]
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House Democratic Policy Committee Holds Oct. 14 Hearing On Loopholes In Regulating Radioactive, Hazardous Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[10/5/2020]
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Shell Ethane Plant Air Quality Permits For Beaver County Facility
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[9/28/2020]
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Grant Twp., Indiana County Moves To Dismiss Lawsuit Against It By DEP Over Drilling Waste Injection Well
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[9/28/2020]
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EPA Settlement Requires MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Facility To Pay $150,000 Penalty For Air Violations In Butler County
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[9/28/2020]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Oil & Gas Well Plugging Project In Lycoming County
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[9/21/2020]
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DEP Reports Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Had Nearly Twice The Violations Of Shale Gas Wells; DEP To Develop New Conventional Drilling Regs
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[9/21/2020]
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PennDOT Opens P3 Partnership Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Station In Monroe County
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[9/14/2020]
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Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Transportation & Climate Initiative To Share Updates, Opportunity For Input Sept. 16 & 29
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[9/7/2020]
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Premiere Of Mark Ruffalo's 'Invisible Hand' Film About The Rights Of Nature Movement, Including Grant Twp., PA Injection Well Case
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[8/31/2020]
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Sen. Yaw Among State, National Leaders Pledging To Keep Country Dominant Natural Gas Producer
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[8/31/2020]
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Range Resources 2020 Sustainability Report Sets 2025 Goal For Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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[8/24/2020]
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DEP: CNX Gas Company Agrees To Pay $175,000 Penalty For Uncontrolled Methane Leaks At The Shaw Well In Westmoreland County
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[8/24/2020]
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IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 2.8% In Second Quarter Over Last Year, But Over 31% Drop In New Producing Wells
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[8/24/2020]
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AG Shapiro, Environmental Groups File Lawsuits To Block Federal Rule On Transport Of Liquefied Natural Gas By Rail
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[8/17/2020]
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EPA Finalizes Methane Emission Standards For Oil & Gas Industry; Does Not Affect DEP Methane Proposal
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[8/17/2020]
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DEP Publishes New Policy On Replacement, Restoration Of Private Water Supplies Impacted by Unconventional Drilling Operations
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[8/10/2020]
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Senators Yaw, Santarsiero Send Bipartisan Letter To PA Congressional Delegation To Include Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding In Next Federal Stimulus Bill
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[8/10/2020]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[8/10/2020]
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Going Virtual! PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 28-29
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[8/3/2020]
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DEP Unconventional Drilling Well Permit Fee Increase Effective August 1
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[8/3/2020]
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Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Visit Gas Well Servicing Firm In Butler County To Support Trump's Deregulation Agenda
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[7/27/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[7/27/2020]
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Regulation Lowering Sulfur Standard For Heating Oil From 500 To 15 ppm Now Final; Enforcement Suspended Until Feb. 28
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[7/20/2020]
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Senate, House Pass New Tax Credit Program To Encourage Natural Gas Use In Manufacturing; Governor Will Sign
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[7/20/2020]
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CFA Awards Over $1 Million In Pipeline Investment Program Grants In Monroe, Snyder Counties
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[7/13/2020]
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Applicants For Oil & Gas ESCGP-3 Permits Must Submit Applications Thru DEP’s ePermitting System Effective Sept. 9
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[7/13/2020]
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AG Shapiro Joins 15 Other States, EDF Asking Court To Require EPA To Set Methane Pollution Standards For Existing Oil & Gas Operations
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[7/13/2020]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In June Now Available
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[6/29/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Grand Jury Finds Pennsylvania Failed To Protect Citizens During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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Reactions/Comments: Grand Jury Report On Regulatory Failures During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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Independent Fiscal Office Predicts Another $53.4 Million Decrease In Drilling Impact Fee Revenues In 2020 If Natural Gas Prices Remain Low
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[6/22/2020]
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IRRC Unanimously Approves EQB Regulation Increasing Unconventional Gas Well Drilling Permit Application Fee
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[6/22/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Cabot Oil & Gas For Water, Methane Contamination In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[6/22/2020]
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PUC Distributes Over $200 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees; A Sharp Drop Of $51.5 Million From Last Year
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[6/22/2020]
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Better Path Coalition Hosted Virtual Tour Of Gas Drilling Impacts, Other Webinars Coming
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[6/15/2020]
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Reminder: EQB Virtual Hearings On Reg. Controlling VOCs/Methane From Existing Oil, Gas Operations June 23, 24, 25
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[6/15/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro: Range Resources Pleads No Contest To Negligent Oversight Of Natural Gas Well Sites In Washington County; To Pay $150,000 In Penalties, Contributions
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[6/15/2020]
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Shale Gas Drilling Used Over 25 Billion Gallons Of Water Approved By The Susquehanna River Basin Commission Over 10 Years, Now 3rd Largest User Of Water
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[6/15/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Defends Lawsuit Saying DCNR’s Forest Plan Mission To Sell Gas Resources Not Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment
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[6/1/2020]
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House Republicans Pass Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[6/1/2020]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Reschedules Meeting For 4th Time Again Delaying Action On The Final Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase
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[6/1/2020]
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State Fire Commissioner Accepting Applications For Act 13 Fire Company, EMS Grants
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[5/25/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Grants PA Environmental Defense Foundation Request For Oral Argument In Challenge To State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers
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[5/25/2020]
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Sen. Yaw: NY/NJ Rejection Of PA Natural Gas Pipeline Aids Foreign Producers, At Same Time Governor Wants To Join RGGI
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[5/25/2020]
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EQB Invites Comments On Regulations Controlling VOCs/Methane From Existing Oil, Gas Operations
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[5/25/2020]
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EQB Approves Proposed Rule Eliminating Stage II Vapor Controls At Gasoline Stations
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[5/25/2020]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Increased 6.8% In First Quarter Over Last Year
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[5/18/2020]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Holds Virtual Meeting May 19 On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program
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[5/18/2020]
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U.S. EIA Expects Coal-Fired Electric Generation To Fall By 25% In 2020; 11% Increase In Renewables; Natural Gas Flat
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[5/18/2020]
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EDF Analysis Finds PA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Are Double Previous Estimate
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[5/18/2020]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Reschedules Meeting On Final Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase To June 3
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[5/18/2020]
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NRDC Files Brief In Wayne County Landowners Court Challenge To DRBC Authority To Regulate Fracking
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[5/18/2020]
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DCED Awards $3.2 Million In Grants To Extend Natural Gas Service In 5 Counties
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[5/11/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Inflection Energy to Pay $40,000 To Conservation Groups For Polluting Lycoming County Water
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[5/11/2020]
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EQB Considers Proposed Rule Eliminating Stage II Vapor Controls At Gasoline Stations May 19
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[5/11/2020]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Holds May 12 Telephonic Meeting
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[4/27/2020]
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DEP Approves Permit For Underground Injection Well For Drilling Wastewater In Allegheny County
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[4/27/2020]
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DEP Receives Good Samaritan Act Proposals To Plug 2 Abandoned Wells In Wyoming, Venango Counties
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Fines Range Resources $198,920 For Air Quality Violations In Washington County
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Proposes Changes To General Permit Allowing Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Waste To Develop Or Frac Oil & Gas Wells
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[4/13/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[4/13/2020]
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DEP Settlement With CNX For E&S Violations In Greene, Washington Counties Yields $180,000 Streambank, Fish Habitat Project
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[4/6/2020]
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Post-Gazette: PA Faces New Wave Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[3/30/2020]
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IHS Markit Predicts 50% Drop In Demand For Gasoline In U.S.; Demand For Electric Vehicles Will Falter
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[3/30/2020]
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DEP Revokes Drilling Waste Injection Well Permit In Grant Twp., Indiana County After Environmental Rights Amendment Court Ruling
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[3/30/2020]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Giving Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies To Manufacturers Who Use Natural Gas; Veto Override Attempt Coming
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[3/30/2020]
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HealthFirstPA March 31 Webinar On Methane Pollution And Public Health
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[3/23/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[3/23/2020]
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HB 1100 Subsidy Bill For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing Goes To Governor
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[3/16/2020]
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Court: Indiana County Twp. Has Right To Defend Its Prohibition Of A Drilling Wastewater Injection Well Using The Environmental Rights Amendment
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[3/16/2020]
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CANCELED: Senate Appropriations Committee Holds Hearing On Pipeline Investment Program March 24
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[3/16/2020]
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CANCELED: Senate, House Policy Committees To Hold Hearing March 25 On Grow PA Infrastructure, Education, Health Care Innovations
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[3/16/2020]
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Phipps Conservatory To Host April 14-15 One Health One Planet Symposium On Air Quality In Pittsburgh
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[3/16/2020]
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Dueling Press Conferences For/Against Signing Bill Providing Taxpayer Funded Subsidies For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing
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[3/9/2020]
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DEP To Use EPA Grant To Characterize Ambient Concentrations Of Methane In 10 Counties
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[3/9/2020]
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30+ Environmental Groups Will Hold A March 9 Rally Against HB 1100 Giving An Unlimited Subsidy For Natural Gas Use In Manufacturing
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[3/9/2020]
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The Economy As A Complement, Not Detriment To The Environment - Shell Ethane Plant
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[3/2/2020]
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BP America Op-Ed: PA Can Transform America’s Energy Landscape - Again By Joining RGGI
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[3/2/2020]
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DEP Sets April 2 Hearing On Revaluation Of All Sources Of Air Pollution; The Installation Of Ethane Storage Tanks At Sunoco’s Natural Gas Liquids Facility In Delaware County
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[3/2/2020]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 11.4% In 2019; Increases In Production, Number Of Producing Wells Down Significantly
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[2/24/2020]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Business Meeting March 13 In Harrisburg
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[2/24/2020]
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DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate
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[2/24/2020]
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USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas
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[2/17/2020]
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Senate Deliberately Delaying Sending Bill Providing Unlimited Subsidies For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing To Governor
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[2/17/2020]
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Op-Ed: PA Legislators Should Stop Giving Tax Breaks To Fossil Fuel Industry
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[2/10/2020]
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Senate, House Take Final Action On Bill Providing Unlimited Subsidies To Industries Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing; Governor Set To Veto
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[2/10/2020]
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Joint Conservation Committee: Belle Vernon Municipal Authority Taking A Stand Against Pollution From Drilling Waste
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[2/10/2020]
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DEP Hearing Feb. 26 [If Needed] On Chesapeake Energy Request To Waive Setback For Well To Be Drilled In Bradford County
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[2/3/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Submits Brief Continuing Legal Battle To Have DCNR Drilling Revenue Returned To Benefit Conservation
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[2/3/2020]
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Dominion Energy Submits Application To Plug 3 Wells At Oakford Natural Gas Storage Complex In Westmoreland County
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[2/3/2020]
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Twice As Much Methane Is Leaking From Oil & Gas Facilities In Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma As EPA Estimates
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[2/3/2020]
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The Energy Co-op Opens Renewable Natural Gas Program To All PECO, PGW Customers In Southeast
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[1/27/2020]
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CFA Starts Accepting Applications Feb. 1 For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants
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[1/27/2020]
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EQB Approves Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil Regulations
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[1/27/2020]
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195 Groups Oppose SB 790 Reducing Conventional Drilling Environmental Protections, House Set For Final Vote
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[1/27/2020]
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Earthworks: Rolling Stone Article Links Oil & Gas Waste Radioactivity To Worker Cancers, Wastewater Trucks Operating Illegally
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[1/27/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Overturns Rule Of Capture Trespass Decision, But Allows Challenge Of Actual Trespass
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[1/27/2020]
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Senate Transportation, Environmental Committees Hold Joint Hearing Jan. 29 On Regional Transportation Climate Initiative
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[1/27/2020]
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CFA Awards 4 Natural Gas Pipeline Service Extension Grants Totalling $2.3 Million In Chester, Monroe, Northampton Counties
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[1/20/2020]
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Final Vote Expected This Week In House On Bill Reducing Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[1/20/2020]
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PEC, EDF: Senate Bill 790 Includes Dramatic Reductions In Health, Environmental Protections From Impacts Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[1/20/2020]
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Opposition To Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater Grows: 166 Organizations, 1,445 Citizens Call On House To Reject Senate Bill 790
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[1/20/2020]
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DEP Orders Range Resources To Address Methane Leaking Into The Air, 12 Water Wells, Groundwater From A Marcellus Gas Well In Lycoming County Since 2013
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[1/20/2020]
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PA AG Shapiro, 15 Other State Attorneys General Object To Shipping Liquefied Natural Gas By Rail
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[1/20/2020]
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PUC Approves Settlement For Aqua America’s $4+ Billion Acquisition Of The Peoples Natural Gas Companies
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[1/20/2020]
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2020 Shale Network Workshop Set For May 14-15 In State College To Feature Health Effects Presentations
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[1/13/2020]
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IFO: CY 2019 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Drop Sharply By $53.6 Million, Triggers Lower Well Fee
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[1/13/2020]
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EQB Meets Jan. 21 To Finalize Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil
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[1/13/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Jan. 13 On Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[1/13/2020]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Discuss Draft Horizontal Drilling Pipeline Construction Guidance Document, Stakeholder Report
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[1/13/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Accepts PA Environmental Defense Foundation Appeal Of Ruling On Gas Drilling Revenue Transfers To Pay DCNR, General Fund Expenses
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[1/13/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Amended Lawsuit Saying DCNR’s Adopted Forest Plan Mission To Sell Gas Resources Is Not Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment
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[1/13/2020]
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Northeast Regional Transportation & Climate Initiative Invites Comments On Draft Program To Cap Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicle Fuels
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[1/13/2020]
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PUC Releases Winter Reliability Overview Reports From Natural Gas Distribution Companies
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[1/6/2020]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Land Lease Under Allegheny River For Gas Development For $1,162,800 In Armstrong County
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[12/23/2019]
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EQB Approves For Comment Regulations Controlling Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations, Setting Manganese Water Quality Standard
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[12/23/2019]
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DEP Estimates Proposed Methane Regs Approved By EQB Will Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations By 75,000+ Tons/Year
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[12/23/2019]
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Reaction To Methane Proposal: Marcellus Shale Coalition, House Climate Caucus, PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Council, Earthworks
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[12/23/2019]
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PA Housing Finance Agency Invites Comments On Proposed Housing Funding Plan Supported By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees
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[12/16/2019]
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Protect PT Appeals Court Ruling Upholding Westmoreland County Township's Ordinance Allowing Natural Gas Drilling
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[12/9/2019]
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EQB To Consider Regulations Controlling Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations, Setting Manganese Toxic Substances Water Quality Standard Dec. 17
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[12/9/2019]
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In A First, National Natural Gas Supply Assn. Supports Carbon Pricing, Including Major Natural Gas Drilling Companies In PA
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[12/9/2019]
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DEP Air Quality Advisory Committee To Review Final Fee Increase Package, 2019 Air Monitoring Results, Legacy Well Programs Dec. 12
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[12/9/2019]
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IFO PA Natural Gas Production 3rd Quarter Report: 9.1% Increase This Quarter Over Last Year, Projected 11.2% Increase In 2019
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[12/9/2019]
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DCNR Submerged Lands Lease For Oil & Gas Development In Fayette, Greene Counties Yields $943,600
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[12/2/2019]
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Help Wanted: Southwest PA Environmental Health Project Executive Director
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[11/25/2019]
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PA State Seismic Network Has Detected Only 1 Fracking-Inducted Seismic Event, So Far
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[11/18/2019]
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You Are Looking At A Map Of Future Dumpsites For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater If Road Dumping Is Approved By General Assembly
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[11/18/2019]
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Commonwealth Court Upholds Westmoreland County Township’s Ordinance Allowing Natural Gas Drilling
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[11/11/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit Asking Court To Direct DCNR To Manage State Forests Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment To Prevent Drilling Impacts
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[11/4/2019]
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100 Groups, Companies, 1,000 Citizens To Legislators, Wolf: Oppose SB 790 Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[11/4/2019]
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DEP Reaches $650,000 Settlement With Greene County Gas Storage Field Operator For Oil & Gas Act Violations
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[11/4/2019]
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DEP Received Good Samaritan Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Proposal In Tioga County
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[10/28/2019]
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Briefing: Trick Or Treat? Environmental Policies Promoted By Today’s Republicans
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[10/28/2019]
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Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater 26-23 Without Debate
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|
[10/28/2019]
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House Environmental Committee OKs Bill Allowing Longer Shale Gas Drilling Laterals
|
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[10/21/2019]
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Senate Appropriations Committee Meets Oct. 21 To Consider Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
|
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[10/21/2019]
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40+ Groups, 200 Citizens Call On 2 Republican Reps. O’Neal, Ortitay To Investigate Cancers, Call For A Halt To Industry-Friendly Bills
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[10/21/2019]
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DEP Posts Updates To Radiation Monitoring Requirements For Oil & Gas Operations For Comment
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement With CNX On Well Plugging Violations At 141 Conventional Coalbed Methane & Gas Wells, 5 Unconventional Gas Wells In 4 Southwest Counties
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[10/14/2019]
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Sen. Blake, Rep. Mullins To Introduce Bill Setting Minimum Host Community, School District, DEP Fees For Power Plants
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[10/14/2019]
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Op-Ed: House Energize PA Proposal Will Let Taxpayers Holding The Bag
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Suspends Xtreme Energy Natural Gas Well Permits For Failure To Pay Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee
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[10/14/2019]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition Responds To FracTracker Alliance Report On Land Impacts Of Unconventional Gas Drilling In Pine Creek Watershed, Northcentral PA
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[10/14/2019]
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PennFuture To Host Fmr Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard Oct. 22 In Harrisburg For A Discussion On His Book Less Oil Or More Caskets
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[10/7/2019]
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Dept. Of Health To Give DEP Advisory Committee Update On Oil & Gas Production Health Registry Oct. 17
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[10/7/2019]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Lands Drilling Lease In Greene County For $162,400 In Upfront Payments
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[9/30/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater With Little Discussion, Only 3 Negative Votes
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[9/30/2019]
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Penn State Study Recommends Only Using Nontoxic Products Or Highly Treated Drilling Wastewater To Remove Radium, Oil, Metals Before Road Spreading
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[9/30/2019]
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IFO Estimates Landowners Will Be Paid Over $1.6 Billion In Natural Gas Royalties In Tax Year 2018; $9.815 Billion Since 2010
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[9/30/2019]
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Op-Ed: There Is A Sunnier Vision For Pennsylvania That’s An Alternative To The Fossilization Of Our Energy Future
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[9/23/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 24 To Move Bill To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Wells, Make Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Legal
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[9/23/2019]
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Op-Ed: Why Is the General Assembly About To Hurt Us By Authorizing Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Wastewater?
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[9/22/2019]
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House Republicans To Move Bills To Demolish Environmental Permitting, Stop Development For 3-5 Years, Cut Public Out Of Permit Reviews
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[9/22/2019]
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SRBC Water Quality Monitoring Report Again Shows No Adverse Impact From Drilling On State Forest, Other Land In Priority Watersheds
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[9/22/2019]
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Senate, House Lawmakers From Both Parties Call On Wolf To Move Oil & Gas Methane Emission Reduction Rules Without Delay
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[9/22/2019]
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Bipartisan Group Of 30 House Members Urge Wolf To Take Action On Regs To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[9/16/2019]
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Earthworks’ New Report, Interactive Map Tracks Disposal Of 380 Million Barrels Of PA Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Including Road Dumping
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[9/2/2019]
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EPA Proposes Changes To Methane Emission Control Regulations For Oil & Gas Industry; PA Reaction
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[9/2/2019]
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Penn State Researchers Develop Affordable, Less-Intensive Methane Detection Protocol For Water
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[8/19/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Appeals State Court Ruling Saying Law, Not Constitution Directs Use Of State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers
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[8/19/2019]
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FracTracker Alliance Report Catalogs Land Impacts Of Unconventional Gas Drilling In Pine Creek Watershed, Northcentral PA
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[8/12/2019]
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Sen. Yudichak, DEP Secretary Highlight Benefits Of Proposed Restore PA Plan To Turn Brownfield Site Into Recreation Area
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[8/12/2019]
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New Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support For Restore PA Infrastructure Plan; When Will It Translate Into Legislative Votes?
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[8/12/2019]
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DEP Receives 2 Proposed Good Samaritan Gas Well Plugging Project Requests In Bradford, Tioga Counties
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[8/5/2019]
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PEDF Says Commonwealth Court Ruling On State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers Ignores PA Supreme Court Decision
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[7/29/2019]
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Senators Scarnati, Yaw, Baker Who Oppose DRBC Fracking Moratorium Seek To Intervene In Federal Case As Environmental Trustees
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[7/29/2019]
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DEP, Marcellus Shale Coalition Win Some, Lose Some In Preliminary Commonwealth Court Decision On Drilling Regs
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[7/29/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Hears Concerns About Monitoring Impacts Of The Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Site Cleanup
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[7/22/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks Court To Block FY 19-20 Transfers From Oil & Gas Fund To Pay DCNR Operating Expenses
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[7/22/2019]
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DCNR Conservation Advisory Council Set To Discuss Plan To Make Up Land Lost To Drilling, Penn’s Parks For All Plan July 24
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[7/22/2019]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Has A Major Goal In 2019-- To Restore Program To Spread Waste Water From Wells On Roads
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[7/22/2019]
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The AlleghenyVoice.com-- New Source For Environmental News In The Allegheny River Watershed
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[7/22/2019]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $44,150 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
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[7/22/2019]
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CFA Provides Grants To Subsidize Extension Of Natural Gas Service In Butler, Crawford, Northampton Counties
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[7/15/2019]
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DEP Releases Annual Oil and Gas Program Report Covering Activities During 2018
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[7/8/2019]
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EQB Regulation Lowering Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil To 15 PPM Published For Comment
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[7/8/2019]
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Penn State Extension July 18 Webinar On Managing Wastewater From Shale Gas Drilling Operations
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[7/8/2019]
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State Court Finds Butler County Township Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling Does Not Violate Environmental Rights Amendment
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[7/1/2019]
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Column: Desire For Riches Often Comes At The Cost Of Natural Resources
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[7/1/2019]
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PUC Distributes Nearly $252 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue, Largest Amount To Date
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[7/1/2019]
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IFO Projecting Either $9.6 Million Increase In Drilling Impact Fee Revenue In 2019 Or $37.1 Million Decrease
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[7/1/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Bill To Make Report On Impacts Of Deep Coal Mining Optional, And Other Bills
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[6/23/2019]
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Sen. Scarnati Introduces Bill To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Different From House Version
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[6/17/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Advises DCNR Proposal To Replace State Forest Lost To Gas Drilling Does Not Meet Its Obligations As A Public Trustee
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[6/17/2019]
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Rep. Causer Introduces Bill To Turn Back The Clock On Regulating Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling To 1984
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[6/17/2019]
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House Committee Approves 2 Energize PA Natural Gas Use Subsidy Bills
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[6/17/2019]
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EPA Extends Low RVP Gasoline Waiver In Allegheny County, Buckeye Laurel Pipeline Still Not Repaired
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[6/17/2019]
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20th Anniversary Of Natural Gas Competition In PA Highlighted By PUC
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[6/10/2019]
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Restore PA Infrastructure Initiative Introduced With Enough Co-Sponsors To Nearly Pass House, Senate
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[6/10/2019]
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Republican Senators Introduce Restore PA-Lite Proposal Funded By More Drilling On State Forest Land
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[6/10/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Making Fundamental Changes To The Definition Of Water Pollution, Setting Up Costly Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Program
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[6/10/2019]
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Senate, House Legislation Coming To Create New Law To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drilling
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[6/10/2019]
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House Finance Committee Meets June 11 On 2 Energize PA Natural Gas Use Subsidy Bills
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[6/3/2019]
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Analysis: Before More State Forest Drilling, Ask What Happened To The Money The First Time
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[6/3/2019]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition, Lycoming County Leaders: Natural Gas Impact Tax Works for Pennsylvania’s Communities
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[6/3/2019]
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IFO: First Quarter Natural Gas Production Grew 14.7 Percent In Pennsylvania
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[6/3/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Allows Residents Of Other Municipalities To Testify In Local Zoning Cases Involving Drilling Operations
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[6/3/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Bills June 4 To Compensate Gas Rights Owners, Make Changes In Definition Of Pollution
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[6/3/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Holds Info Meeting June 5 On Using Act 13 Impact Fee Monies For Stormwater Management
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[6/3/2019]
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EPA Issues Low-RVP Gasoline Waiver For Allegheny County Due To A Failure In The Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
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[6/3/2019]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Gas Well Plugging Project In Clarion County
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[5/27/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling Allowing Local Zoning Permits For Drilling In Westmoreland County
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[5/27/2019]
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State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications For Unconventional Gas Well Local Emergency Response Grants
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[5/27/2019]
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Range Resources Publishes First Corporate Sustainability Report, Working To Achieve Zero Emissions Across Operations
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[5/27/2019]
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Research: Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Half The Carbon Footprint Of Underground Coal Mining In Pennsylvania
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[5/20/2019]
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At Delaware River Governors' Summit, Gov. Wolf Announces His Support For A Full Ban On Fracking In The Delaware Watershed
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[5/20/2019]
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House Begins Debate On Bill To Compensate Delaware River Watershed Drilling Rights Owners Over $10 Billion If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban
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[5/20/2019]
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New Study Tracks Liquid, Solid Waste From Conventional, Unconventional Oil & Gas Development In PA From Generation To Disposal
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[5/20/2019]
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Muhlenberg Public Health Poll: 51% Say Climate Change Poses Major Risk To Public Health In PA, Radon 43%, Fracking 38%
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[5/19/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Decision Allowing Drilling In All Districts Under A Local Zoning Ordinance As Long As They Meet Standards
|
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[5/13/2019]
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DEP Collected $330,775 In Penalties For Violations At EQT Drilling Sites In Allegheny County
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[5/6/2019]
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House Republican Bills Providing Public Subsidies For Natural Gas Use Creates Political Commission To Set Environmental Standards, Make Individual Permit Decisions
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[5/6/2019]
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DCNR Proposes Replacing Recreational Value Lost From Gas Drilling On State Forest Land Bought With Federal Funds With Property In Chester County
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[5/6/2019]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced
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[5/6/2019]
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DEP Oil & Gas Program Reported 94 Violations At 168 Conventional Well Facilities During 1 Week In April
|
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[4/29/2019]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Held Hearing In Pittsburgh On Methane And Climate Change
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[4/29/2019]
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Opportunities To Bid On DEP Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Mine Reclamation Projects
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[4/29/2019]
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U.S.G.S Releases Study Of Bradford County Private Drinking Water Wells; Nearly 50% Have Coliform Contamination
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[4/22/2019]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds April 23 Hearing On Methane Emissions, Climate Change In Pittsburgh
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[4/22/2019]
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Updates To DCNR’s EDWIN Database Of PA Oil & Gas Well Information
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[4/15/2019]
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DEP Advisory Committee Recommends Moving Ahead With Reg To Control VOC/Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations
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[4/15/2019]
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DCNR Signs 2 Submerged Land Leases For Gas Development Covering 124.2 Acres For $496,800
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[4/8/2019]
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Alliance For Appalachia: A Toolkit For Cleanup & Community Development
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[4/8/2019]
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PUC Safety Engineers Probe UGI Natural Gas Distribution Line Hit In Hershey
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[4/1/2019]
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House Committee OKs Bill To Compensate Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban; Cost A Minimum Of $10 Billion
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[4/1/2019]
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Draft Regulation Controlling VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations Now Available, To Be On April 11 DEP Advisory Committee Agenda
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[4/1/2019]
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EQT Foundation Invites Applications For Higher Ed Scholarships In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/1/2019]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging In Butler County
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[4/1/2019]
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CFA Approves 11 Alternative And Clean Energy Project Grants For Over $12 Million
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[3/25/2019]
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House Committee To Consider Bills To Compensate Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban, Change Well Pad Permitting March 26
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[3/25/2019]
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Op-Ed: Will Our Dirt Roads Again Be Used As Dumping Sites For Oil & Gas Well Wastewater
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[3/25/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties, Voluntary Pooling
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[3/25/2019]
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Presenters Urge House Committee To Support Bill Compensating Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts A Fracking Ban
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[3/25/2019]
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March 27 DEP Meeting On Proposed Drilling Permits At U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant, Allegheny County
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[3/25/2019]
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PJM: Reliability, Fuel Supply Strong In PJM During 2018-19 Winter
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[3/18/2019]
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Rep. Mehaffie Introduces Bill To Prevent Nuclear Power Plant Closures Costing $500 Million Annually
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[3/18/2019]
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PJM Tells 2 House Committees Competitive Electric Markets Significantly Reduced Prices For PA Ratepayers; Grid Will Remain Reliable Into The Future
|
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[3/18/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement On Diversified Gas & Oil Abandoned Conventional Wells
|
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[3/18/2019]
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DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting
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[3/18/2019]
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Commonwealth Court Clears The Way For Attorney General To Pursue Unfair Trade Practices Case Against Chesapeake, Anadarko On Drilling Royalties, Payments
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[3/18/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meets March 19 To Consider Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties
|
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[3/18/2019]
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Court: Injection Well Developer Does Not Need To Wait To Challenge A Local Zoning Decision Until It Has Permits For The Well
|
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[3/11/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Turns Down Conventional Gas Drillers’ Motion To Reconsider Stripper Well Impact Fee Decision
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[3/11/2019]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Increased 14.2% In 2018, Largest Increase Since 2014
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[3/4/2019]
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Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge To Unconstitutional Use Of Oil & Gas Funds Now Includes Recent Proposed Fund Transfers
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[2/25/2019]
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Bill Introduced Again To Require Drilling Rights Compensation If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban
|
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[2/25/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meeting On Forge The Future Energy/Development Plan Turns Into Climate Change Debate
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[2/25/2019]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For UGI LNG Truck Loading Facility In Berks
|
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[2/25/2019]
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Penn State Extension Webinar On How Colorado Prioritizes Oil & Gas Well Inspections
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[2/25/2019]
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Penn State Extension March 14 Webinar On Methane Migration & Changes In Aquifer Properties
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[2/18/2019]
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Conventional Gas Drillers Ask PA Supreme Court To Reconsider Stripper Well Impact Fee Decision
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[2/18/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 20 On Forge The Future Economic Development Report
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[2/18/2019]
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Tribune Review: Environmental Groups Set Feb. 28 Public Meeting On Shale Gas Well Failure In Westmoreland County
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[2/11/2019]
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After 10 Days, Pressure Problem From Fracking Utica Gas Well In Westmoreland County Said To Be Under Control
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[2/4/2019]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Amounts Will Not Change For 2018 Collection Year
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[1/28/2019]
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Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K/Month Without Fee Increase; DEP Wants To Step Up Inspections Of Natural Gas Storage Fields
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[1/28/2019]
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IFO Estimates FY 2018 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue At $247 Million, A Record
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[1/28/2019]
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House Democratic Policy Committee Hears Testimony On Oil & Gas Industry Methane Leakage
|
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[1/28/2019]
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Senate Committee Member Assignments Now Complete With Republicans Naming Their Team
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[1/28/2019]
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PennDOT, Lebanon Transit Open CNG Transit Fueling Station
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[1/28/2019]
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U.S. EIA Energy Outlook: Renewables Share Of Electricity Generation To Almost Double By 2050, Coal Continues To Drop
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[1/21/2019]
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DEP Receives 2 Proposed Good Samaritan Gas Well Plugging Project Requests
|
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[1/21/2019]
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1,485-Megawatt Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Goes Online In Lackawanna County
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[1/14/2019]
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DEP Changes Regional Boundaries, Shifts Workload, Provides Update On e-Permitting, e-Inspections To Improve Permit Review Times, Reduce Costs
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[1/14/2019]
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Gov. Wolf Sets Goal Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 80% By 2050 From 2005 Levels
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[1/14/2019]
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Peoples Gas Commits To Reducing Methane Emissions By 50% In its Pittsburgh Distribution System
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[1/14/2019]
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EHB: Air Quality Permit For Natural Gas Liquids Project At Marcus Hook Refinery Unlawful
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[1/14/2019]
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DCNR Leases Youghiogheny River Streambed Crossing To Chevron For $975,600 In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties
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[12/31/2018]
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Housing Finance Agency Housing Plan Funded By Drilling Impact Fees Out For Public Review
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[12/31/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Overturns Decision Allowing Drillers To Avoid Act 13 Impact Fees
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[12/24/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification For Proposed UGI Liquefied Natural Gas Truck Loading Facility In Berks County
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[12/24/2018]
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2 Natural Gas Power Plants Beginning Operations In Westmoreland, York Counties Have Combined Generating Capacity Of 1.7 Gigawatts
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[12/24/2018]
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Report: Investment In Natural Gas Pipelines, Infrastructure To Remain Strong Through 2035
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[12/24/2018]
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Op-Ed: Conservatives Should Lead The Way On Clean Energy That Creates Jobs, Prosperity
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[12/17/2018]
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Draft DEP Proposal To Cut Gas Well Methane Emissions Exempts Most Conventional Gas Wells Accounting For 50% Or More Of Methane Pollution
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[12/17/2018]
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Penn State Ground And Stream Water Research Reveals Clues To Shale Drilling Impacts
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[12/10/2018]
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Exelon To Retire 3 Landfill Gas Generation Facilities In Pennsylvania
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[12/10/2018]
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Natural Gas Distribution Companies Expect Little Change In Natural Gas Use In PA During Winter Heating Season, Slight Increase In Cost
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[12/10/2018]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 18.5% Over The 3rd Quarter 2017
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[12/10/2018]
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PUC To Livestream Dec. 11 PA One Call Pipeline, Utility Damage Prevention Committee Meeting
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[12/3/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Decision Striking Down Protection Of School Property, Playgrounds, Species Of Special Concern In DEP Drilling Permit Process
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[12/3/2018]
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DEP Advisory Committee Meets Dec. 13 To Discuss Reg Limiting Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations; Update On PA Air Quality
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[12/3/2018]
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Allegheny Institute: Time To Tighten Reporting On How Local Governments Spend Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fee Revenue
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[12/3/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Acid Rain Permit For Jessup Natural Gas Power Plant, Lackawanna County
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[11/26/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Agrees To Review Rule Of Capture Decision Saying Taking Natural Gas Without Permission Is Trespass
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[11/26/2018]
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DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Discuss Mock Drill Pad Restoration Project Nov. 28
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[11/26/2018]
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Penn State Extension Webinar Dec. 13: Unconventional Oil & Gas: Bringing Trusted Science To Decision-Making
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[11/19/2018]
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DEP Fines EQT $294,000 For Release Of 4 Million Gallons Of Abandoned Mine Drainage Into Monongahela River
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[11/19/2018]
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National Fuel Gas Company Accepts EPA Methane Challenge
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[11/19/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[11/12/2018]
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Court Turns Back Challenge To Township Decision Allowing Drilling Based On Storage Of Drilling Wastewater, Environmental Rights Amendment
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[11/12/2018]
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PA League Of Women Voters Shale & Public Health Conference In Pittsburgh Nov. 14
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[11/5/2018]
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Commonwealth Court Upholds Local Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling In All Districts As Long As They Meet Standards
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[11/5/2018]
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DEP Launches ePermitting For Oil & Gas Well Drilling, Related Erosion & Sedimentation Permit
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[11/5/2018]
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PennDOT Announces Opening Of 14th CNG Transit Fueling Station In Indiana County
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[10/29/2018]
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Now Online: WITF Documentary Generations Yet To Come: Environmental Rights In Pennsylvania
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[10/29/2018]
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Aqua America Water/Wastewater Company To Acquire Peoples Gas For $4.2 Billion
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[10/29/2018]
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Penn State: Fracking Wastewater Accumulation Found In Freshwater Mussel Shells
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[10/29/2018]
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PennDOT Announces Opening Of 13th CNG Transit Fueling Station In Adams County
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[10/22/2018]
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Penn State: Agricultural Production And Shale Gas Development Webinar Nov. 15
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[10/15/2018]
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Business Groups Call For PA Energy Czar To Take Advantage Of Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Resources
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[10/15/2018]
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WITF Documentary: Generations Yet To Come: Environmental Rights In Pennsylvania, Oct. 25
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[10/15/2018]
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Gov. Wolf: President Trump Should Stand Up For Pennsylvania Refinery Workers On Ethanol Standard
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[10/15/2018]
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House Environment Committee Meeting Postponed On Natural Gas Royalty Bill
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[10/8/2018]
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POSTPONED-House Environment Committee Set To Meet Oct. 9 On Natural Gas Royalty Bill
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[10/8/2018]
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DEP Announces Revised General Permit Available On Oil & Gas Development Erosion & Sedimentation Control
|
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[10/8/2018]
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PUC Continues On-Site Mutual Aid To Massachusetts In Aftermath Of Natural Gas Line Explosion
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[10/1/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Bill To Weaken Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Standards
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[10/1/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Amends Critical Infrastructure Security Bill To Set Penalties For Intentional Vandalism
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[10/1/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee Hearing: Witnesses Outline What They See As Attempts By Foreign Entities To Stand In The Way Of PA’s Gas Development
|
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[10/1/2018]
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State Senators Again Seek To Intervene To Support Wayne County Landowner Lawsuit On Delaware Watershed Fracking Ban
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[10/1/2018]
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Penn State Extension: Oct. 23 Webinar On Addressing Orphan & Abandoned Wells From DEP, Industry Perspectives
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[10/1/2018]
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PUC Launches Utility Careers Campaign, Encourages Young People To Consider Opportunities With Utilities
|
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[10/1/2018]
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Pittsburgh Hosts SHALE INSIGHT 2018 Conference Oct. 23 - 25
|
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[9/24/2018]
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CFA Funds 359 Projects To Improve Water Infrastructure & Recreation, Restore Watersheds
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[9/24/2018]
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DEP: $469,501 Settlement To Resolve Civil Penalties For United Refining Company Violations In Warren County
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[9/24/2018]
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Waning Days Of Senate, House: Environmental Bills We’re Watching, Good And Bad
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[9/24/2018]
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Bill To Weaken Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Standards On Senate Environmental Committee Agenda For Sept. 25
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[9/24/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 25 On Controversial Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bill
|
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[9/24/2018]
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DEP To Hold Oct. 1 Hearing On Drilling Waste Injection Well In Allegheny County
|
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[9/24/2018]
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CFA Awards $850,000 Grant To Valley Energy, Inc. To Extend Natural Gas Pipeline In Bradford County
|
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[9/24/2018]
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Businesses Showcase Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions For Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions In PA
|
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[9/24/2018]
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Royal Dutch Shell Raises Ambition To Drive Down Methane Emissions To Near Zero By 2025
|
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[9/17/2018]
|
Commonwealth Court Upholds $1.1 Million Penalty Against EQT Drilling For Wastewater Impoundment Leaks
|
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[9/17/2018]
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EPA Proposes New Air Emission Limits On Methane From Oil & Gas Operations; PA Reaction
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[9/17/2018]
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PA Housing Finance Agency Issues RFP For Local Housing Initiatives Funded In Part By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees
|
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[9/10/2018]
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Report: PA Residential, Industrial Consumers Saved Over $30.5 Billion Between 2006 - 2016 From Increased Natural Gas Production
|
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[9/10/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee Sets Sept. 25 Hearing On Foreign Influence On Natural Gas Development In PA
|
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[9/10/2018]
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Help Wanted: Headwaters Charitable Trust Intern, Process For Identifying Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
|
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[9/3/2018]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Violations More Than Triple Between 2015-2017
|
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[9/3/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Decisions Saying Local Zoning Ordinances Do Not Apply To Mariner East Pipelines
|
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[9/3/2018]
|
Penn State Extension: Update On Shale Gas Rule Of Capture Court Decision Webinar Sept. 20
|
|
[8/27/2018]
|
Commonwealth Court Strikes Down Protection Of Common Areas Of School Property, Playgrounds, Species of Special Concern In DEP Drilling Permit Review Process
|
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[8/27/2018]
|
Senate, House Republicans Want Taxpayers, Not Drilling Industry, To Pay Additional Costs For DEP Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
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[8/27/2018]
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Auditor General DePasquale To Review Progress On 2014 Oil & Gas Water Protection Audit Recommendations
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[8/13/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Orders Rehearing Of Challenge To Zoning Permit Allowing Drilling In Butler County Based On Environmental Rights Amendment
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[8/13/2018]
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Penn State Extension Marcellus Shale Landowner Coalitions- Form, Function, Impact Webinar Aug. 23
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[8/6/2018]
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Op-Ed: DCNR Shale Gas Monitoring Report Has Good Information, But Obfuscates Forest Policies
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[8/6/2018]
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UGI Opens CNG Fueling Station In Bethlehem, Touts Advantages of Natural Gas Vehicles
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[7/30/2018]
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DEP Orders Well Operators To Plug 1,058 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
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[7/30/2018]
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DCNR Releases 2nd Monitoring Report On State Forest Shale Gas Drilling
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[7/30/2018]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Project To Plug Gas Wells In Clearfield County
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[7/30/2018]
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Construction Complete On Hummel Station Power Plant Coal To Natural Gas Replacement In Snyder County
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[7/23/2018]
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Gov. Wolf: CFA Awards $3.4 Million In Funding For 5 Natural Gas Pipeline, Alternative, Clean Energy Projects
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[7/23/2018]
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Bay Journal: Environmental Group Warns PA To Protect Forests Or Get Sued
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[7/16/2018]
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EQB Publishes Unconventional Well Permit Fee Increase Regulation For Comment
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[7/16/2018]
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General Permit For Erosion & Sedimentation Control At Oil & Gas Drilling Sites, Related Facilities Available For Comment
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[7/16/2018]
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DEP Provides Notice Of Court-Ordered Compliance Date Changes For Existing Gas Drilling Impoundments
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[7/9/2018]
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Federal Court Overturns Dismissal Of Wayne County Landowner Challenge To DRBC’s Shale Gas Drilling Moratorium
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[7/9/2018]
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Opportunities To Bid On DEP Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Projects
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[7/9/2018]
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PennFuture To Allegheny County: Drilling Revenue Must Benefit Citizens Under Environmental Rights Amendment
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[7/2/2018]
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Op-Ed: The Story Behind Stopping Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Spreading On Dirt Roads
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[7/2/2018]
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IFO Projects Increase In Drilling Impact Fee Revenue In 2018 Under Current Conditions
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[7/2/2018]
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Food & Water Watch Issues List Of 48 New, Planned Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants In PA
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[7/2/2018]
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PUC Hosts First-Ever Exercise On A Large-Scale Natural Gas Distribution Emergency
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[6/25/2018]
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PUC Distributes $209.5 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees, Total Fee Revenue Tops $1.4 Billion
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[6/25/2018]
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House Committee OKs Bills To Fund Natural Gas Service Extensions, Replace Lead Water Service Lines
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[6/25/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Again Cancels Meeting On Bill To Implement Governor’s Oil & Gas Well Permitting Reforms
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[6/25/2018]
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PennDOT: Altoona CNG Transit Fueling Station Opens In Blair County
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[6/18/2018]
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Senate Committee OKs Bills Requiring Compensation For DRBC Fracking Ban, To Form Pipeline Commission, But NOT Conventional Drilling Bill
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[6/18/2018]
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CANCELED: House Environmental Committee Meets June 19 On Bill To Implement Governor’s Oil & Gas Well Permitting Reforms
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[6/18/2018]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Urges DCNR To Manage Drilling In State Forests Consistent With The Environmental Rights Amendment Court Decision
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[6/18/2018]
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Penn State: Bradford County Water Quality Improves, Impacts Rare Near Shale Gas Wells
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[6/18/2018]
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House Committee Meets June 20 On Bills Extending Natural Gas Service, Replacing Lead, Broken Service Lines
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[6/18/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/11/2018]
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House Passes Bill Weakening Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling, Senate Committee Considers Tuesday
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[6/11/2018]
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Senate Committee To Consider House Conventional Oil & Gas Bill, DRBC Eminent Domain, Pipelines, Ethane Hub, Recycling, Trail Bills June 12
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[6/11/2018]
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POSTPONED: House Environmental Committee Meets June 12 On Bill To Implement Governor’s Oil & Gas Well Permitting Reforms
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[6/11/2018]
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Wolf Announces Final General Permits Limiting Methane Emissions From New Unconventional Oil & Gas Operations
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[6/4/2018]
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DEP Loses Appeal Of Unconventional Drilling Regulation Injunction At PA Supreme Court, Case On Merits Continues
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[6/4/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Says Local Governments Must Amend Zoning Ordinances To Specifically Allow For Drilling
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[6/4/2018]
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House Sets Final Vote Tuesday On Bill Weakening Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[6/4/2018]
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Sen. Baker Introduces Bill To Declare DRBC Fracking Ban A Taking Of Property
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[6/4/2018]
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Penn State Study: Using Oil & Gas Well Brine As Dust Suppressant Less Than Ideal
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[6/4/2018]
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Volunteer Training For Shale Gas Stream Monitoring July 7, Allegheny County
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[6/4/2018]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Plugging Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Butler County
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[6/4/2018]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Grows 9.9%, Producing Wells Up 9.1% In First Quarter
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[6/4/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[5/28/2018]
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Conservative Leaders Launch PA Conservative Energy Forum In Support Of Diverse Energy Policy
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[5/28/2018]
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PUC Chairman Gladys Brown Named To DOE Natural Gas Infrastructure Modernization Partnership
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[5/28/2018]
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DCNR Approves Submerged Lands Lease For $340,000 In Lycoming County
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[5/28/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[5/21/2018]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks Court To Declare Elimination Of Oil & Gas Lease Fund, Recent Money Transfers Unconstitutional
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[5/21/2018]
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EHB Upholds DEP Issuance Of Unconventional Gas Well Permits Under Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge
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[5/21/2018]
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EQB OKs Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Review Fees For Public Comment
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[5/21/2018]
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DEP’s Good Samaritan Program Encourages Proposals To Plug Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Treat Mine Drainage
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[5/21/2018]
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U.S. EIA: Northeast Region Slated For Record Natural Gas Pipeline Buildout In 2018
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[5/21/2018]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Land Leases Worth Over $4.6 Million
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[5/14/2018]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Motion To Protect $383 Million In State Forest Drilling Payments
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[5/14/2018]
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U.S. EIA: Pennsylvania To Add 5.2 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generating Capacity In 2018
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[5/7/2018]
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House Republicans Unexpectedly Delay Final Vote On Bill Weakening Standards Protecting The Environment From Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[5/7/2018]
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EQB To Consider Significant Increase In Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Review Fee May 16
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[5/7/2018]
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Gov. Wolf Backs New Bipartisan Severance Tax, Permit Reform, Minimum Royalty Bills; No Dedicated Funding For Environmental Programs
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[5/7/2018]
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New Transit CNG Fueling Station Opens In Crawford County
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[4/30/2018]
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House Committee Meets April 30 To Consider Conventional Drilling Bill Weakening Environmental Protection Standards For Fracking
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[4/30/2018]
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Students See Green: Mock Spill Illustrates Potential Impact Of Wastewater Leak
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[4/30/2018]
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DEP Permits For Brunner Island, Moxie Freedom Natural Gas Power Plants
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[4/30/2018]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Lands Agreement With EQT Drilling Worth $874,200 In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/30/2018]
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Penn State Behrend Campus Will Connect Erie Companies To Shell Ethane Plant Project
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[4/23/2018]
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EQB Approves Final Drinking Water Fee Increases, Now Moves Through Final Review
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[4/23/2018]
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DEP Establishes New Water Quality Project Grant Program With $12.6 Million Mariner East 2 Pipeline Penalty
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[4/23/2018]
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Nuclear Energy Caucus Hearing: The Federal Government Is Not Going To Act In Time To Save Nuclear Power Plants
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[4/23/2018]
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House Republicans List House Conventional Oil & Gas Bill On Voting Schedule For May 1
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[4/23/2018]
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PennFuture: Senate Bill 1088 Would Roll Back Conventional Drilling Rules To 1984 Levels
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[4/16/2018]
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PEC, EDF: Conventional Oil & Gas Bill Will Reverse, Weaken Environmental Protection Standards For Fracking
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[4/16/2018]
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DEP: 2014 Data Shows Less Than 1% Of Unconventional, Conventional Natural Gas Wells Reported Well Integrity Problems That Could Contaminate Fresh Water
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[4/16/2018]
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Sen. Yudichak Circulating Governor’s Natural Gas Severance Tax, Well Permitting Changes For Co-Sponsors
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[4/16/2018]
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Wolf Announces Affordable Housing Funding Supported By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees
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[4/16/2018]
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Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Station Opens At Lehigh/Northampton Transportation Authority In Allentown
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[4/16/2018]
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DEP Awards Funding For 19 Alternative Fuel Programs For Schools, Business, Municipalities
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[4/16/2018]
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PJM Asks FERC To Address Utility Subsidy Requests For Aging Coal, Nuclear Plants
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[4/16/2018]
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U.S. EIA Projects 5% Decline In Coal Production, Another Record Year For Natural Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increase In 2018
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[4/9/2018]
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DRBC: No Timetable For Finalizing Fracking Ban, Makes Comments Available
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[4/9/2018]
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EQB To Consider Final Drinking Water Fee Increases, Review Report On Oil & Gas Drilling Fees April 17
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[4/9/2018]
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PA Superior Court: Taking Natural Gas Without Permission From Neighboring Property Is Trespass, Overturning Rule Of Capture For Unconventional Gas Wells
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[4/9/2018]
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PA Attorney General Joins Other States In Suing EPA Over Controlling Methane Pollution
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[4/9/2018]
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Bay Journal: Brunner Island Power Plant To Convert From Coal To Natural Gas, Will Reduce Water, Air Pollution
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[4/9/2018]
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Susquehanna U. Research Finds Brook Trout Populations Down In Upper Susquehanna Watershed Due To Natural Gas Development
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[4/9/2018]
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Buckeye Now Proposing Bi-Directional Laurel Pipeline Service
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[4/2/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Rules DEP Penalty Against EQT Drilling Not Supported By Clean Streams Law
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[4/2/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On GP-5, 5A General Permits Setting Methane Pollution Limits On Natural Gas Development Operations
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[4/2/2018]
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Administrative Law Judge Recommends PUC Deny Request To Reverse Flow Of Laurel Pipeline
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[4/2/2018]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Orphan Gas Well Plugging Clinton County
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[3/26/2018]
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Senate Hearing On Pipeline Safety Points To Need To Hold Pipeline Companies Accountable For Impacts, Better Communication
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[3/26/2018]
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UPDATED: Senate Committee Takes Conventional Drilling Regulation Bill Off March 27 Agenda, Recreation Bill To Be Considered
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[3/26/2018]
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Senate, House Re-Write Of Oil & Gas Act For Conventional Drillers Turns Back The Clock To 1984
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[3/26/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Permit For APV Renaissance Natural Gas Power Plant, Greene County
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[3/26/2018]
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DEP Holds April 25 Hearing On Water Quality Permit For Brunner Island Power Plant, York County
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[3/26/2018]
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DEP Approves Permit For Underground Drilling Waste Injection Well in Clearfield County
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[3/26/2018]
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IFO Estimates PA Landowners Received Over $5.325 Billion In Natural Gas Royalties From 2012 To 2016
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[3/26/2018]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Extension Of Tri-State Shale Coalition To Maximize Benefits Of Natural Gas Resources
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[3/26/2018]
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EQT Drilling Pays DCNR $1.568 Million For Additional Submerged Land Leased Under Monongahela River
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[3/19/2018]
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PUC Ratifies Emergency Order Suspending Operations Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline
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[3/19/2018]
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Senate Committees To Hold Joint Pipeline Safety Hearing March 20
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[3/19/2018]
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PA Clean Transportation Infrastructure Bill Approved By House Committee
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[3/19/2018]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Berks County Power Plant Natural Gas Pipeline
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[3/12/2018]
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PUC Orders Shutdown Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline After Sinkholes Expose Bare Pipeline In Chester County
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[3/12/2018]
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Sinkholes In Chester County Blamed On Mariner East 2 Pipeline, Exposed Portion Of Operating Mariner East 1 Pipeline
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[3/12/2018]
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DEP Sets 3 Public Hearings On Proposed Shell Ethane Pipeline In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
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[3/12/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Water Quality Certification For Natural Gas Pipelines Under I-79 In Allegheny County
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[3/12/2018]
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DEP, Local Officials Celebrate Arrival Of Pollution-Reducing CNG Buses At River Valley Transit In Lycoming County
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[3/12/2018]
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PA Chapter Of The Assn Of Royalty Owners Meets March 21-23 In State College
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[3/5/2018]
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DCNR Budget Hearing: Senators Recommend More Drilling In State Forests To Fund An Expanded Growing Greener Program
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[3/5/2018]
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CFA Accepting Applications For Act 13 Water-Related, Recreation Grants Until May 31
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[3/5/2018]
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DEP Issues Permits For Construction Of Birdsboro Natural Gas Power Plant In Berks County
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[3/5/2018]
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New CNG Fueling Station On I-80 In Clarion County Will Cut Air Pollution
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[3/5/2018]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Agreement With Sunoco Allowing Restart Of Mariner East 2 Construction, Sue For Breach Of Contract
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[3/5/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Permits For Risberg Pipeline Project In Crawford, Erie Counties
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[3/5/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/26/2018]
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Bay Journal: PA's Environmental Rights Amendment Grows Some Teeth
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[2/26/2018]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Mine Reclamation, Gas Well Plugging Projects
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[2/26/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/19/2018]
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Talen Energy, Sierra Club Agreement Requires Brunner Island To Operate On Natural Gas During Summer Ozone Season, End Use Of Coal
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[2/19/2018]
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Sunoco Satisfies Requirements To Resume Mariner East II Pipeline Construction At Chester County Site
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[2/19/2018]
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DEP Extends Comment Period On Permits For Shell Ethane Pipeline, Hearings To Be Scheduled
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[2/19/2018]
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EDF Report: PA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Nearly 5 Times Higher Than State Inventory
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[2/19/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/12/2018]
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Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Fined $12.6 Million, DEP Allows Construction To Resume
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[2/12/2018]
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Rep. Boback Introduces Marcellus Drilling Health Registry Bill
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[2/12/2018]
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DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board To Discuss More Than Doubling Unconventional Well Permit Fee Feb. 14
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[2/12/2018]
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DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For 1,000MW Renovo Natural Gas Power Plant In Clinton County
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[2/12/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/5/2018]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees To Increase For 2017 Production Wells, IFO: Revenue To Increase $46.1 Million
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[2/5/2018]
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Senate Committee Approves Resolutions Directing Review Of DEP Permit Programs, Ending State Forest Drilling Moratorium
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[2/5/2018]
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DEP Launches Good Samaritan Outreach To Promote Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Projects
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[2/5/2018]
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PSATS Township News: Caught In The Middle, Twps In The Path Of Gas Pipelines
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[2/5/2018]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation, PennFuture Urge Gov. Wolf Not To Lift State Forest Drilling Moratorium
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[2/5/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[1/29/2018]
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Gov. Wolf, DEP Taking Action To Reduce Backlogs, Improve Oversight, Modernize Permit Process
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[1/29/2018]
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Gov. Wolf’s Statement Introducing Plan To Reduce Backlogs, Improve Oversight, Modernize DEP’s Permit Process
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[1/29/2018]
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Senate Committee Meets Jan. 30 On Resolutions On Permit Program Reviews, Ending State Forest Drilling Moratorium
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[1/29/2018]
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Re-Write Of Oil & Gas Act For Conventional Drillers Returns To 1984
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[1/29/2018]
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DEP Hearing March 2, If Requested, On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Pipeline Compressor Station In Perry County
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[1/29/2018]
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U.S. EIA Forecasts Natural Gas To Remain Primary Source For Electricity Generation
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[1/29/2018]
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Opportunity To Bid On Gas Well Plugging, Clinton County; Mine Reclamation, Jefferson County
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[1/22/2018]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks PA Supreme Court To Consider Unconstitutional Oil & Gas Fund Spending Issues Commonwealth Court Won’t
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[1/22/2018]
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DEP Fines Energy Corp Of America $1.7 Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties
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[1/22/2018]
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DEP Advisory Committee To Discuss Reducing Heating Oil Sulfur Limits, RACT For Some Existing Oil & Gas Facility Air Emissions
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[1/15/2018]
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PEDF: Commonwealth Court Effort To Narrow Focus Of Review Of How State Spends DCNR Oil & Gas Payments Without Factual, Legal Support
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[1/15/2018]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Adds 2 Hearings, Extends Comment Period On Proposed Fracking Ban
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[1/15/2018]
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Feb. 23 Hearing On Proposed RACT II Air Quality Plan For NRG Shawville Power Plant, Clearfield County
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[1/8/2018]
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DEP Suspends Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Permits
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[1/8/2018]
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Hearing Set On Emission Credits For Jessup Natural Gas Power Plant Jan. 31, Lackawanna County
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[1/8/2018]
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PA Environmental Council December In Case You Missed It Now Available
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[1/1/2018]
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DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County
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[1/1/2018]
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PEC Blog: Pennsylvania Moving Forward On Oil & Gas Industry Methane Controls
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[1/1/2018]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Well Plugging In Clinton County, Water Line In Clearfield County
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[12/25/2017]
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DEP Will Do An Estimated 2,000 More Oil & Gas Inspections In 2017
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[12/25/2017]
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Gov. Wolf Meets With Opponents Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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[12/25/2017]
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Judge Rejects Challenge To Natural Gas Royalty Case Brought By Attorney General
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[12/18/2017]
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Proponents Again Come Within 1 Vote Of Considering Natural Gas Severance Tax Bill
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[12/18/2017]
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Senate Committee Hears Comments From Both Sides In Dispute Over Reversing Laurel Pipeline
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[12/18/2017]
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DEP On Track To Complete More Oil & Gas Drilling Site Inspections In 2017 Than 2016
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[12/18/2017]
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Environmental Advocates Urge Gov. Wolf To Advance Methane Pollution Standards For Natural Gas Sector
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[12/18/2017]
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DEP Publishes Interim Final Guidance On Drilling Marcellus Wells In Areas With Longwall Coal Mining
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[12/18/2017]
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Westmoreland County Transit Opens CNG Fueling Station
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[12/11/2017]
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PEDF Files Petition Urging Court To Declare New Transfers Of Monies From Oil & Gas Fund Unconstitutional, $1.1 Billion At Stake
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[12/11/2017]
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Effort To Refer Severance Tax Bill To House Committee Fails By One Vote, 1 Week Of Session Left
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[12/11/2017]
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DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County
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[12/11/2017]
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DEP Air Quality Advisory Committee Meets Dec. 14 On Draft Final GPs Controlling Methane From Natural Gas Operations
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[12/11/2017]
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Harrisburg University Hosts The Author Of The Fracking Debate At March 2 Program
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[12/11/2017]
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IFO Natural Gas Report: Production up 4.8%, Producing Wells Up 9.3% Over 2016
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[12/4/2017]
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DEP Releases Draft Final General Permits For Controlling Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Operations
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[12/4/2017]
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DRBC Proposes Rules Prohibiting Fracking Natural Gas Shales In The Delaware Watershed, Sets Hearings
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[12/4/2017]
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PA Housing Finance Agency Proposed 2018 Housing Fund Plan For Drilling Impact Fee, Other Revenue
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[12/4/2017]
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Report On Expanding Access To Natural Gas Service Released By National Task Force
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[12/4/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[11/27/2017]
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House Leaves Town Without Finishing Debate On Natural Gas Severance Tax Bill
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[11/27/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[11/20/2017]
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House Committee To Hold Hearing On Alternative Natural Gas, Electric Ratemaking Nov. 20
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[11/20/2017]
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$15.7 Million In Environmental Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee
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[11/20/2017]
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DEP Secretary Visits Nearly Complete Panda Hummel Natural Gas Power Plant In Snyder County
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[11/20/2017]
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CFA Approves Funding For Wyoming County Pipeline Project
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[11/20/2017]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification To Equitrans Pipeline Project In Allegheny, Beaver
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[11/13/2017]
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AP: West Virginia Signs $38.7 Billion Natural Gas Development Deal With China Energy
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[11/13/2017]
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Associated Petroleum Industries Of PA Adds Jonathan Lutz As Associate Director
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[11/6/2017]
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House Republican Policy Committee Hears Testimony On Proposed Delaware Watershed Drilling Ban
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[11/6/2017]
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PA Grade Crude Oil Advisory Committee To Discuss Legacy Wells, Production Reporting Initiative Nov. 16
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[11/6/2017]
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2017 Shale & Public Health Conference Nov. 13 In Pittsburgh
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[11/6/2017]
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Winter Reliability Reports Now Available From Natural Gas Distribution Companies
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[11/6/2017]
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Sen. Baker’s Natural Gas Pipeline Safety, PA One Call Bill Signed Into Law
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[10/30/2017]
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Senate Sends Natural Gas Pipeline Safety, PA One Call Bill To Governor
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[10/30/2017]
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Senate, House Adopt FERC Coal/Nuclear Electric Pricing Resolutions
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[10/30/2017]
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House Republican Policy Committee Holds Hearing On Delaware Watershed Drilling Moratorium Oct. 31 In Wayne County
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[10/30/2017]
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October Environmental Synopsis Newsletter Available From Joint Conservation Committee
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[10/30/2017]
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Latest Public-Private CNG Transit Fueling Station Opens In Beaver County
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[10/30/2017]
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Agriculture Touts Expanded Biofuel Infrastructure Thru Public-Private Partnership
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[10/30/2017]
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Kleinman Energy Center: Shale Gas Has Saved PA Consumers A Bundle
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[10/30/2017]
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Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Will Dump Coal, Nuclear Regardless Of What FERC Does
|
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[10/30/2017]
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PUC Submits Comments To FERC Opposing DOE Coal/Nuclear Reliability Pricing
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[10/23/2017]
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House Passes Utility, Natural Gas Pipeline Safety PA One Call Bill, Returns To Senate
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[10/23/2017]
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House Finance Committee Reports Out Natural Gas Severance Tax, Nothing For The Environment
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[10/23/2017]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Gas Pipeline Replacement In Greene County
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[10/23/2017]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Discuss Area Of Review Policy, Water Supply Replacement Nov. 1
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[10/23/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[10/16/2017]
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House Finance Committee Cancels Meeting On Natural Gas Severance Tax Bill
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[10/16/2017]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Water Monitoring Again Finds No Impacts From Natural Gas Drilling
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[10/16/2017]
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Nov. 2 Hearing On Air Permit For Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Greene County
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[10/9/2017]
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House Environmental Committee OKs Stormwater Act Exemption Bill, Resolution Against Delaware Drilling Ban
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[10/9/2017]
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House Consumer Affairs Committee OKs Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Bill
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[10/9/2017]
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PUC Pipeline Safety Division Earns High Marks In Annual Federal Review
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[10/2/2017]
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Day 94 Without A Complete State Budget; House Fails To Get Enough Votes For A Severance Tax
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[10/2/2017]
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11 Senators Urge Appropriations Chairs To Devote A Portion Of A Severance Tax To Growing Greener
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[10/2/2017]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Oct. 3 On Stormwater Act Exemption Bill, DRBC Drilling Ban
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[10/2/2017]
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Penn State Extension: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, What’s A Reasonable Estimate? Webinar Nov. 16
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[10/2/2017]
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PennTAP Common Energy Tips For Manufacturers, Steps To Implementation Oct. 11 Westmoreland
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[9/25/2017]
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House Environmental Committee To Again Consider Impact Fee/Severance Tax Bill Sept. 25
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[9/18/2017]
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Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York Approve Resolution To Permanently Ban Fracking In Delaware River Watershed
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[9/18/2017]
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House Environmental Committee Changes Name Of Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee To Severance Tax
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[9/18/2017]
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PUC Invites Comments On Reg To Spur More Competition In PA’s Natural Gas Retail Market
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[9/11/2017]
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PA Responds To Harvey, Western U.S. Wildfire, Irma, Storm Preparedness Tips For Irma
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[9/11/2017]
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House Environmental Committee To Consider 4 Amendments To Severance Tax Bill Sept. 11
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[9/11/2017]
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AP: Source: Delaware River Basin Commission To Propose Permanent Shale Drilling Ban
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[9/11/2017]
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DEP Issues Air Quality Plan Approval For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline In Lancaster County
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[9/4/2017]
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House Environmental Committee To Consider Severance Tax Bill Sept. 11
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[9/4/2017]
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PUC Seeks Comments On Proposals To Spur More Competition In PA’s Natural Gas Market
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[9/4/2017]
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DEP: Natural Gas Facility Methane Emissions Increase 4% With Increase In Gas Production, Number Of Facilities
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[9/4/2017]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Up 3%, Number Of Producing Wells Up 7.6% For Calendar Year
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[9/4/2017]
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Environmental Groups Reach Agreement With Shell On Monitoring Ethane Plant Air Emissions In Beaver County
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[9/4/2017]
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Tyr Energy Begins Construction On Hickory Run Natural Gas Power Plant In Lawrence County
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[9/4/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[8/21/2017]
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EIA: As Pipeline Projects Are Completed, Appalachian Region Natural Gas Prices Are Rising
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[8/21/2017]
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Oil-Natural Gas Industry Poll Shows Opposition To Nuclear Power Plant Subsidies
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[8/14/2017]
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Op-Ed: Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities Seek Loophole In Senate-Passed Admin Code Budget Bill Rider
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[8/14/2017]
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EHB Approves Sunoco, Groups, DEP Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Settlement
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[8/14/2017]
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DEP Accepting Comments On Water Quality Certification For Birdsboro Pipeline, Berks County
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[8/14/2017]
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Dominion Appeals Leak Detection In 2 Pipeline Compressor Station Air Permits In Clinton, Potter Counties
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[8/14/2017]
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Opponents Of Natural Gas Pipeline Construction In Lancaster Vow To Continue Fight
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[8/14/2017]
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DEP: Public Hearing Aug. 14 In Lancaster For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Air Permit
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[8/7/2017]
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PA Environmental Council: Budget Deal, A Bad Solution To The Wrong Problem
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[8/7/2017]
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DEP Mobile App For Oil & Gas Inspections Is Finalist In National Awards Program
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[8/7/2017]
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Help Penn State, Trout Unlimited Identify Potentially Contaminated Drilling Sites
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[7/31/2017]
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Nothing In Senate $970 Million Revenue Package For The Environment, Code Bills Littered With Environmental Riders
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[7/31/2017]
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Senate Environmental Permitting Changes Would Emasculate DEP’s Ability To Regulate Air, Water, Mining, Waste, Radiation, Oil & Gas
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[7/31/2017]
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Environmental Hearing Board Orders Halt On All Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Drilling
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[7/31/2017]
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DEP Takes More Action On Mariner East 2 Pipeline Violations, Statement On EHB Order
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[7/31/2017]
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Gov. Wolf Celebrates Opening Of Shipley Energy CNG Station In York County
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[7/31/2017]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Pipeline Project In Western PA
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[7/31/2017]
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DEP Invites Comments On Draft Guidance For Pipeline Water Quality Certification
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[7/31/2017]
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Groups Deliver Petitions To Gov. Wolf Asking To Continue Delaware Watershed Fracking Ban
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[7/24/2017]
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IFO Projects Increase In Drilling Impact Fee Revenue For Coming Year
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[7/24/2017]
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Gov. Wolf Signs New Law Promoting Use Of Cleaner-Burning Natural Gas In Larger Vehicles
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[7/24/2017]
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DEP Investigating Mariner East 2 Pipeline Existing And Potential Violations During Construction
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[7/24/2017]
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3 Groups Call For Shut Down Of Mariner East 2 Construction Due To Well Contamination
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[7/24/2017]
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Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Results In Another Spill In Delaware County
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[7/24/2017]
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Delaware County Residents Appeal County Zoning Code Ruling On Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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[7/24/2017]
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PSU: Treated Fracturing Wastewater May Pollute Area Water Sources For Years
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[7/24/2017]
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PSU: Shale Gas Development Spurring Spread Of Invasive Plants In PA Forests
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[7/17/2017]
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House Amends Administrative Code Bill With Environmental Riders
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[7/17/2017]
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PEDF Submits Brief To Declare FY17-18 Oil & Gas Fund Transfers Unconstitutional
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[7/17/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[7/10/2017]
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PEDF Petitions Court To Declare 2017-18 General Fund Budget Bill Unconstitutional
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[7/10/2017]
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Op-Ed: PA Supreme Court Has Saved Our State Forests And Parks!
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[7/10/2017]
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Op-Ed: Taking The Public Trust Seriously: The PA Supreme Court's Landmark Decision in PEDF v. Commonwealth
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[7/10/2017]
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Op-Ed: The Impact Of The PA Supreme Court Environmental Rights Amendment Ruling On The Environment
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[7/10/2017]
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Updated: Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule
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[7/10/2017]
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Updated: Bills On Governor's Desk
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[7/10/2017]
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Updated: Senate/House Bills Moving
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[7/10/2017]
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Federal Court Rejects Efforts To Delay EPA Oil & Gas Methane Control Regulations; Mixed Results In Court So Far
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[7/10/2017]
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Delaware County Coalition Responds To Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 Pipeline Pre-Holiday Flyer
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[7/3/2017]
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PEDF Asks Court To Determine If $383 Million Transferred From Oil &Gas Lease Fund Remains In The Public Trust
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[7/3/2017]
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40 Groups Urge Gov. Wolf, DEP To Deny Permits For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline
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[7/3/2017]
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Commonwealth Court Rules In Favor Of Private Lawsuits To Enforce Local Land Development Ordinances
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[7/3/2017]
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PA Benefits From Natural Gas Use; 68,536 Natural Gas Wells, 69 Gas Power Plants
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[7/3/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[7/3/2017]
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Post-Gazette: EQT Drilling Again Challenges The Way DEP Calculates Penalties In $1.1 Million Fine Appeal
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[6/26/2017]
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PA Supreme Court Declares Law Diverting Oil & Gas Lease Funds To General Fund Unconstitutional
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[6/26/2017]
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DEP Authority To Regulate Impact Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells On Public Resources Upheld By PA Supreme Court
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[6/26/2017]
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Post-Gazette: Court Decision Raises Questions On How Legislature Can Spend DCNR Drilling Proceeds
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[6/26/2017]
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PA Attorney General, 13 Others Intervene In Lawsuit Against EPA On Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions
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[6/26/2017]
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Senate Passes PA One Call Pipeline Safety Bill, With Shale Gas, Not Smaller Conventional Gathering Lines
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[6/26/2017]
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Shale Gas Industry Tells House Committee, We Don’t Want Regulatory Relief, We Want Permits On Time
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[6/26/2017]
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June Environmental Synopsis From Joint Conservation Committee Features Oil & Gas Industry
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[6/26/2017]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Permit For Shell Petrochemical Complex In Beaver County
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[6/26/2017]
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Babst Calland Report: Resurgence Of Appalachian Shale Gas Industry, Challenges Ahead
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[6/19/2017]
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PUC Distributes $173 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees, Down $14.5M, More Reductions Ahead
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[6/19/2017]
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EIA: Natural Gas Topped Coal-Fired Electric Generation In Northeast Since Feb. 2011 Due To Competition
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[6/19/2017]
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EPA Proposing To Pause Oil & Gas Methane Emission Control Rule For 2 Years
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[6/19/2017]
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PennDOT Public Private Partnership CNG Refueling Station Now Open In York
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[6/19/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/12/2017]
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Legislation To Encourage Natural Gas-Fueled Vehicles Passes Senate
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[6/12/2017]
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Rep. Quinn Introduces PA Clean Transportation Infrastructure Act
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[6/12/2017]
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Conventional Gas Drillers: We Can’t Afford To Protect Public, Workers From Our Pipelines Exploding
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[6/12/2017]
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PennEast Pipeline Awards Community Grants In Pennsylvania, NJ
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[6/12/2017]
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Commonwealth Court Affirms Lower Court Ruling On Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling
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[6/12/2017]
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Cabot Drilling Has Paid $1.5 Billion In Royalties, Signing Bonuses In Susquehanna, Wyoming Counties
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[6/12/2017]
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New Public/Private Partnership CNG Fueling Station Opens In Donora, Washington County
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[6/12/2017]
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PA Environmental Council: New Website On Controlling Methane Emissions-- CH4nge.com
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[6/5/2017]
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EHB Issues $1.1 Million Penalty Against EQT Drilling In Controversial Penalty Case
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[6/5/2017]
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Natural Gas Industry Spent $1.4 Million To Lobby General Assembly In First 3 Months Of 2017
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[6/5/2017]
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DEP Approves Permit For Drilling Waste Injection Well In Clearfield County
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[6/5/2017]
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Kleinman Energy Center: Natural Gas Driving More Baseload Generation Retirements In PJM
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[6/5/2017]
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Pittsburgh’s Commitment To Sustainability Driving Solutions To Stormwater, Energy Use, Shale Challenges
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[6/5/2017]
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FracTracker Susquehanna River Basin Impacts Project Forums June 6, 14, 15
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[5/29/2017]
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Senate Hearing: Natural Gas Development Has Major Impact On PA Energy Markets
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[5/29/2017]
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Bill To Encourage Natural Gas-Fueled Trucks Passes House
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[5/29/2017]
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DEP Sets 4 Regional Hearings On Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Project Permits
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[5/29/2017]
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$442,274 Pipeline Grant Connects Communities In Susquehanna County To Natural Gas
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[5/22/2017]
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House Democratic Policy Committee Hearing On Natural Gas Severance Tax May 22
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[5/22/2017]
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Court: Jefferson Hills Borough Cannot Block EQT Natural Gas Drilling Pad
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[5/22/2017]
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DEP Issues Air Permit For Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Archbald, Lackawanna County
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[5/22/2017]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Violations Up Nearly 80 Percent In 2016
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[5/15/2017]
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Will Gas Drilling Company Overturn The Way DEP Has Calculated Penalties For Nearly 40 Years? We’ll See
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[5/15/2017]
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Delaware Riverkeeper Files Suit Against Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Failing To Comply With Local Zoning
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[5/15/2017]
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Three Winners Announced For The 2017 Shale Gas Innovation Contest
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[5/15/2017]
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DEP Takes More Steps To Identify Abandoned, Leaking Oil & Gas Wells
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[5/8/2017]
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Sen. Martin Proposes Bill To Impose The Public Costs Of Protests Against Pipelines On The Protesters
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[5/8/2017]
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Senate Resolution Urges Gov. Wolf To End Gas Leasing Moratorium On DCNR Lands
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[5/8/2017]
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State Fire Commissioner: Emergency Response Grants Available Related To Gas Wells
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[5/8/2017]
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Opponents Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline File Lawsuit Against Sunoco To Enforce Delaware County Twp. Ordinance
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[5/8/2017]
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Penn State: Shale Gas Threat To Forests Can Be Eased By Consolidating Infrastructure
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[5/8/2017]
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Reminder: 2 PUC Hearings May 16 On App To Change Direction Of Laurel Pipeline
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[5/1/2017]
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House Hearing: Bill Allows Utilities To Charge All Ratepayers For Gas Service Extensions
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[5/1/2017]
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Seneca Resources Assessed $375K Penalty For Multiple Violations At Drilling Operations
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[5/1/2017]
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Center for Responsible Shale Development Recertifies Shell, CONSOL Drilling Operations
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[5/1/2017]
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Drilling Company, Environmental Group Appeal Indiana County Drilling Waste Injection Well Permit
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[5/1/2017]
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EARTH DAY Op-Ed: Why Yes, Natural Gas Drilling Can Be Done Responsibly
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[5/1/2017]
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Penn State Geologist Terry Engelder Who Calculated Marcellus Gas Reserves To Retire
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[4/24/2017]
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PUC: PA One Call Changes, Drilling Impact Fee Appeal, Act 129 Energy Efficiency Savings, Growth Of Natural Gas
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[4/24/2017]
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Rep. Snyder To Introduce Bill To Fix Language Jeopardizing Drilling Fee Collections
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[4/24/2017]
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First Of 29 Public-Private Partnership CNG Fueling Stations Opens In Johnstown
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[4/24/2017]
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U.S. EIA Expects Natural Gas To Be Largest Source Of Summer Electricity Generation
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[4/24/2017]
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PUC’s John Coleman Co-Chairs National Task Force On Natural Gas Access, Expansion
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[4/24/2017]
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UGI Proposals To Replace Aging Natural Gas Service Distribution Pipelines OK’d By PUC
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[4/24/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[4/24/2017]
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CLICK HERE To View Or Print Entire PA Environment Digest
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[4/17/2017]
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PUC Intends To Appeal Court Ruling Jeopardizing Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Collections
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[4/17/2017]
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Citizens Advisory Council To Host Legislative Forum, Nuclear Power, Seismic Discussions
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[4/17/2017]
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Senate Bill Attempts To Retroactively Influence Decision Protecting Ryerson State Park, Streams From New Mine Subsidence
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[4/17/2017]
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Bill Adding Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines To PA One Call On Senate Committee Agenda April 18
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[4/17/2017]
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Delaware County Refinery Pays $400K In Penalties For 3 Years Of Air Quality Violations
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[4/17/2017]
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DEP: EM Energy Pipeline Assessed $185,000 Penalty For Surface Water, Wetland Impacts
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[4/17/2017]
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DEP: New Marcellus Shale Wells Drilled In First 3 Months Up Over 60 Percent
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[4/17/2017]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Lands Agreements With EQT Drilling Worth Over $2.5 Million
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[4/17/2017]
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Methane Mitigation Fuels U.S Job Creation, Minimizes Waste For Oil & Gas Industry
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[4/17/2017]
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U.S. Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Fell 1.7 percent In 2016, Natural Gas Use Up 1.1%
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[4/17/2017]
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Natural Gas, Oil Square Off Against Nuclear Power Over Potential Bailout
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[4/17/2017]
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PJM Hosts Grid 20/20: Focus On Resilience, Fuel Mix Diversity & Security April 19
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[4/10/2017]
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PA One Call Debunks Myths On The Cost Of Its Pipeline, Utility Safety Program
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[4/10/2017]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Meet April 13 On Area Of Review, Water Supply
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[4/10/2017]
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PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council Sets 3 Meetings In 2017
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[4/10/2017]
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DEP April 19 Meeting/Hearing On Transco Compressor Station In Lycoming County
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[4/10/2017]
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FERC Issues Final PennEast Pipeline EIS Saying It Can Be Built With Minimal Impact
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[4/10/2017]
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Delaware County Residents Give Notice Of Lawsuit To Enforce Local Pipeline Ordinance
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[4/10/2017]
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FirstEnergy Sells Part Of Former Hatfield Power Plant To Natural Gas Power Developer
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[4/3/2017]
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PJM Study: Electric System Reliable Even With Much More Gas, Renewables
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[4/3/2017]
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Sustainable Pittsburgh Calls On Shell For Sustainability Assessment Of Ethane Plant
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[4/3/2017]
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DEP Approves 2 Underground Drilling Waste Injection Wells In Elk, Indiana Counties
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[4/3/2017]
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Center For Rural PA: 2nd Studies On Health, Social, Economic Impacts Of Shale Drilling
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[3/27/2017]
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Judge Throws Out Landowner Challenge To DRBC De-Facto Moratorium On Drilling
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[3/27/2017]
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DEP Reschedules Solid Waste Advisory Committee Meeting For March 27
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[3/27/2017]
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DEP Launches Oil & Gas Electronic Report Review Tool For Accelerated Public Access
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[3/27/2017]
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Joint Conservation Committee: Natural Gas Methane Leaks Impacting Local Air Quality
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[3/27/2017]
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Wolf Releases Report On Enhancing Manufacturing Using Natural Gas Liquids In PA
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[3/20/2017]
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183 Groups From 4 States Tell Delaware River Basin Commission To Enact Fracking Ban
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[3/13/2017]
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Senate Bill Would Regulate Safety Of Over 3,600 Miles Of Gas Pipelines For 1st Time
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[3/13/2017]
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EHB Denies Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits
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[3/13/2017]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
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[3/13/2017]
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Reports: Trump To Tap PUC Commissioner Powelson For FERC
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[3/13/2017]
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Tennessee Gas Orion Pipeline Project In Pike, Wayne Counties Gets DEP Permits
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[3/13/2017]
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IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 10.8 Percent In 2016
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[3/6/2017]
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WPX Energy Assessed $1.2 Million Civil Penalty For Groundwater, Water Supply Impacts
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[3/6/2017]
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PG PowerSource: DEP Defends Authority For Oil & Gas Industry Methane Rules
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[3/6/2017]
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Ohio Finalized General Permits For VOC/Methane Control For Oil & Gas Operations
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[3/6/2017]
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New iPad App Makes DEP Oil And Gas Site Inspections More Efficient
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[2/27/2017]
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EHB Again Denies Temporary Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits
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[2/27/2017]
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Altoona Mirror: PUC Faces Major Decision On Reversing Flow Of Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
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[2/27/2017]
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DEP Extends Comment Period On Oil & Gas Industry Methane Emission Control Permits
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[2/20/2017]
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DEP Approves Environmental Permits For Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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[2/20/2017]
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EHB Denies Supercedeas In Appeal Of Mariner East 2 Pipeline Permits, Hearing March 1
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[2/20/2017]
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PennEast Pipeline Receives DEP Water Quality Certification
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[2/20/2017]
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DEP Documents Connection Between Fracking, Earthquakes In Lawrence County
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[2/20/2017]
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3 Senate Leaders Question Authority For DEP’s Proposed Methane Emission Limits
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[2/20/2017]
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Volunteers Needed To Document Features Along PennEast Pipeline Route, Training Feb. 25
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[2/13/2017]
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Drexel: Methane Levels Have Increased In Shale Region Despite Dip In Well Installation
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[2/13/2017]
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Penn State: Campus Natural Gas Power Plants Pose No Radon Risks
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[2/13/2017]
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FERC OKs Energy Transfer Partners Rover Natural Gas Pipeline From PA To Ontario
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[2/13/2017]
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FERC, DEP Approves Empire Pipeline In McKean County Into New York
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[2/13/2017]
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Trout Unlimited Pipeline Construction Monitoring Training March 18 In Carbon County
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[2/13/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/6/2017]
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Drilling Impact Fees Will Be The Same In 2016, Revenue Down Another $13.1M
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[2/6/2017]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Permits To Regulate Methane From Oil & Gas Operations
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[2/6/2017]
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PEC Opposes Senate Bill Not Allowing PA To Set Its Own Limits On Methane Emissions
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[2/6/2017]
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Fractracker: Introduction To The Susquehanna River Drilling Impacts Project
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[2/6/2017]
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Williams Partners: Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Gets FERC OK
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[2/6/2017]
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PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance Urges DEP To OK Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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[2/6/2017]
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Natural Gas Set To Expand Capacity In Electricity Generation By 8 percent Over 2 Years
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[2/6/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[1/30/2017]
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Natural Gas Impact Fee Revenue Shrinks Another $13.1 Million For 2016
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[1/30/2017]
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Severance Tax Proposals So Far Offer Nothing For The Environment
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[1/30/2017]
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CFA To Accept Apps For Act 13 Water-Related, Recreation Grants Feb. 1 To May 31
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[1/30/2017]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills On Natural Gas Royalty Reform
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[1/30/2017]
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$1 Million CFA Pipeline Investment Program Grant In Elk County For Domtar Paper
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[1/30/2017]
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Building A Resilient, Smart & Sustainable Pittsburgh: The Energy-Water Nexus Feb. 16
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[1/23/2017]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets Jan. 24 On Natural Gas Royalty Reform Bills
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[1/23/2017]
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Sen. Vogel To Reintroduce Bill To Reduce Waste Reporting From Marcellus Gas Wells
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[1/23/2017]
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New DEP Rules For Chapter 105 Environmental Assessments For Pipeline, Multi-County Projects
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[1/23/2017]
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DEP: Study Shows No Changes Needed To Make Gas Drilling In Deep Mining Areas Safer
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[1/23/2017]
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DEP Sets March 1 Hearing For PennEast Pipeline Compressor Station In Carbon County
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[1/23/2017]
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FirstEnergy To Sell Natural Gas, Hydro Assets In PA, VA
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[1/23/2017]
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UGI Penn Natural Gas Requests Service Delivery Increase Of Nearly 11 Percent
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[1/23/2017]
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88 New Jobs Created By Xpress Natural Gas Fueling Station In Susquehanna County
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[1/16/2017]
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PennAg Industries Assn, Sunoco Pipelines Launch Biosecurity Education Program
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[1/9/2017]
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Conventional Drillers Have 5 Times The Violations, 3.5 Times The Enforcement Actions
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[1/9/2017]
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Author Of Bill Killing Conventional Drilling Regs Wants To Rewrite Oil & Gas Act
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[1/9/2017]
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DEP Review Of Drilling Erosion Permits Finds 60% Of Applications Deficient
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[1/9/2017]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Staff Working On Draft Oil & Gas Regs With States
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[1/9/2017]
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PUC Invites Comments On Rules For Changing Natural Gas Suppliers
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[1/9/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[1/2/2017]
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Part III: Environmental, Energy Bills To Be Introduced In January
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[1/2/2017]
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FERC Issues Final EIS For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Project
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[1/2/2017]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition: Natural Gas Development Strengthens PA Communities
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[1/2/2017]
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DCNR Leases Streambeds In Greene County To EQT Drilling For $158,200
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[1/2/2017]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[12/26/2016]
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Proposed Rules To Speed Natural Gas Supplier Switching To Be Published By PUC
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[12/26/2016]
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NRG Completes Conversions Of 2 Power Plants In PA From Coal To Natural Gas
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[12/26/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[12/19/2016]
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Court Prevents DEP From Requiring Drillers To Plug Abandoned Wells Before Fracking
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[12/19/2016]
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DEP Accepting Comments On Shell Ethane Plant Air, Water Permits Until Dec. 26
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[12/19/2016]
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DEP Issues Final Water Quality Cert. For Rover Pipeline, Washington County
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[12/19/2016]
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Fish & Wildlife Service Invites Comments On EIS For Oil & Gas Habitat Plan
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[12/19/2016]
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Final EPA Report: Fracking Can Impact Drinking Water Under Some Circumstances
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[12/13/2016]
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State Court Reimposes Stay On DEP Enforcement Of Certain Sections Of Drilling Regs
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[12/13/2016]
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Auditor General: 24% Of Act 13 Fees Found To Be Misspent By Local Governments
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[12/13/2016]
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DEP Fines Rice Energy Subsidiaries $3.5 Million At 10 Well Sites, 6 Pipeline Locations
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[12/13/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission OKs Penalties On Natural Gas Power Plants
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[12/13/2016]
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EDF: PA Takes First Step To Reduce Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Operations
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[12/13/2016]
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Penn State Extension Webinars: Natural Gas Power Generation; Shale Fluids Trends
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[12/13/2016]
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Penn State: Big Data Approach To Water Quality Applied At Shale Gas Drilling Sites
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[12/13/2016]
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More Bakken Crude Oil Expected To Move By Rail Because Of Dakota Pipeline Decision
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[12/13/2016]
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Apply Now For 2017 Ben Franklin Shale Gas Tech Innovation Contest
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[12/5/2016]
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SRBC Considers $97K Penalties Against 3 Natural Gas Power Plants Dec. 8
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[12/5/2016]
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After 5 Months, Advisory Committee On Conventional Drilling Not Yet Appointed
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[12/5/2016]
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DEP Invites Comments On Columbia Gas Pipeline Replacement Project In Southwest
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[12/5/2016]
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Proposed Tennessee Gas Triad Pipeline Project In Susquehanna County Approved By DEP
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[11/28/2016]
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Dec. 15 Meeting, Hearing On Shell Ethane Plant Air, Water Permit Changes In Beaver
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[11/28/2016]
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Comments Invited On Equitrans Pipeline Replacement Project In Armstrong/Indiana Counties
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[11/28/2016]
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DEP Advisory Committee To Discuss First Details Of Oil & Gas Methane Controls, Ozone Nonattainment Dec. 8
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[11/28/2016]
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PUC Releases Winter Reliability Reports From Natural Gas Distribution Companies
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[11/21/2016]
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Hearing: 60,000+ Miles Of Natural Gas Gathering Lines Should Be Regulated For Safety
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[11/21/2016]
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IFO Projects $500 Million Deficit For Current Fiscal Year, $1.7 Billion In FY 2017-18
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[11/21/2016]
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Not Much Change In Senate, House Leadership For New Session In January
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[11/21/2016]
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Susquehanna River Commission Considers $97,000 In Penalties Against Natural Gas Power Plants Dec. 8
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[11/21/2016]
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PSU Positive Energy Student Group Spruces Up Park, Toured Drilling Company Site
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[11/21/2016]
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Panda Funds Commissions Patriot 829 MW Natural Gas Power Plant In Lycoming County
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[11/21/2016]
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Google, Environmental Defense Fund Use New Tech To Find Methane Leaks In Pittsburgh
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[11/14/2016]
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Commonwealth Court Judge Puts Hold On Some Sections Of DEP Shale Drilling Regulations
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[11/14/2016]
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Senate, House Committees Hold Joint Hearing Nov. 16 On Pipeline Emergency Response
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[11/14/2016]
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PUC Approves UGI’s Distribution System Improvement Charge
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[11/14/2016]
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Pilot Programs By Peoples Natural Gas To Increase Access To Gas OK’d By PUC
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[11/7/2016]
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EPA Issues RFG Gasoline Waiver As A Result Of The Colonial Pipeline Failure
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[11/7/2016]
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Kleinman Energy Policy Forum: Business Case For Sustainable Shale Fracking Nov. 7
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[10/31/2016]
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CFA OKs $14 Million In Act 13 Drilling Fee Funding For 94 Projects
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[10/31/2016]
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EnergyWire: 3 PA Senators Want Court To Lift Drilling Moratorium In Delaware Basin
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[10/31/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hearing On Water Project Applications Nov. 3
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[10/31/2016]
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DEP Fines JKLM Energy $472,317 For Drilling Surfactant Discharge In Potter County
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[10/31/2016]
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Drilling Company Wins Water Well Contamination Case, But Court Says Actions Reckless
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[10/31/2016]
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Panda Power Liberty Natural Gas Power Plant Commissioned In Bradford County
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[10/31/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[10/24/2016]
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Op-Ed: Gas Drillers Need To Work With Our Communities, Not Against Them
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[10/24/2016]
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Op-Ed: Litigation Necessary Last Resort To Protect Job Creators, Marcellus Shale Coalition
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[10/17/2016]
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Marcellus Shale Industry Sues To Block Certain Provisions Of New DEP Drilling Rules
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[10/17/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hearing Nov. 3 On Water Withdrawal Requests
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[10/17/2016]
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PA Housing Finance Agency Awards $6.2 Million In Housing Grants From Drilling Fees
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[10/17/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[10/10/2016]
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DEP Drilling Regs To Take Effect Oct. 8 In Spite Of Challenge By Conventional Drillers
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[10/10/2016]
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DEP Publishes Guidance Related To Implementing Final Drilling Regs For Comment
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[10/10/2016]
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PEC On Final DEP Drilling Regs: (Un)Conventional Thinking Part 2
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[10/10/2016]
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League Of Women Voters 2016 Shale & Public Health Conference Nov. 16 In Pittsburgh
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[10/10/2016]
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Penn State Gathering Takes Aim At State’s Orphan Oil & Gas Well Problem
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[10/10/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[10/10/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[10/3/2016]
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Updated: PA Supreme Court Decision Blocks Disclosure Of Fracking Chemicals
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[10/3/2016]
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Conventional Drillers Attempt To Delay Publication Of Final DEP Marcellus Drilling Regs
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[10/3/2016]
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Analysis: Stage Set To Roll Back Decades-Old Environmental Protection Measures
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[10/3/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Proposes Consumptive Use Mitigation Regs, Policy
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[10/3/2016]
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Pennsylvania Envirothon Receives $50,000 Grant From Shell
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[10/3/2016]
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Natural Gas Power Plants Reviewed By DEP Could Replace All Coal-Fired Plants In PA
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[10/3/2016]
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Oil & Gas Industry Focuses On Need For Pipelines, Infrastructure To Support Production
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[10/3/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[9/26/2016]
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Warning Flags Raised Over House Attempts To Roll Back Environmental Protection
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[9/26/2016]
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DEP Informational Meeting Oct. 5 On Renovo Power Plant In Clinton County
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[9/19/2016]
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Help Wanted: Trout Unlimited Mid-Atlantic Organizer
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[9/12/2016]
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Future Of Pennsylvania’s State Forests Outlined In Updated Resource Management Plan
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[9/12/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Clarify Review Regs For Water Withdrawals
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[9/12/2016]
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PennDOT, Cambria County Transit Break Ground For CNG Fueling Station In Johnstown
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[9/5/2016]
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Commonwealth Court: DEP Can Protect Public Resources In Oil & Gas Permits
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[9/5/2016]
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DEP Offers In-Person Training On Updated Oil & Gas Drilling Regs Sept. 13-14, 27-28
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[8/29/2016]
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House GOP Policy Committee Held Hearing On Conventional Drilling Industry
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[8/29/2016]
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Proposed Water Quality Certification Of PennEast Pipeline Project Out For Public Review
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[8/29/2016]
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DEP Fines Pipeline Companies $174K For Changing Plans Without Approval
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[8/29/2016]
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UGI Starts Construction On Sunbury Pipeline To Serve New Natural Gas Power Plant
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[8/29/2016]
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Tenaska Breaks Ground For 925 MW Natural Gas Power Plant In Westmoreland County
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[8/22/2016]
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Joint Committee Unanimously Directs Final Publication Of DEP Marcellus Drilling Regs
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[8/22/2016]
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DEP To Hold 10 Webinars On Final Chapter 78 Marcellus Shale Drilling Regulations
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[8/22/2016]
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Op-Ed: Time For Shale Industry To Take Lead In Environmental Performance
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[8/22/2016]
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DEP Releases 2014 Air Emissions Inventory For Marcellus Shale Gas Operations
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[8/15/2016]
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AG OKs Final DEP Drilling Regs, Legislative Committee Meets On Publishing Final Rules
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[8/15/2016]
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PECO Natural Gas Conversion Program Brings Gas To Chester County Neighborhood
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[8/15/2016]
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UGI Adds Natural Gas Vehicles To Utility Fleet
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[8/15/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[8/8/2016]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Violations Far Exceed Marcellus Wells Again In 2015
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[8/8/2016]
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DEP Notice Of Intent To Renew Compressor Station Permits In Indiana, Tioga Counties
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[8/8/2016]
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DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 102 Permits For Sunoco’s Mariner II East Pipeline
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[8/8/2016]
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XTO Drilling To Pay $400,000 In Settlement Of Wastewater Dumping Charges
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[7/25/2016]
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DEP: New GIS Application And Tutorial Helps Users Find Oil & Gas Well Information
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[7/25/2016]
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Wolf Holds Roundtable On Economic Impact Of New Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County
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[7/25/2016]
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Trillium CNG Finalizes Contract With PennDOT To Build 29 CNG Fuel Stations
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[7/25/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[7/18/2016]
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Independent Fiscal Office: Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Projected To Decline Thru 2018
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[7/18/2016]
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Allegheny Institute: Shale Gas Impact Fee Collections Dip Sharply
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[7/18/2016]
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PEC: Senate Bill Weakens DEP Marcellus Shale Drilling Regs, Now In House
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[7/18/2016]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule[Updated]/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
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[7/18/2016]
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PEC TV: Abandoned Mines, Oil & Gas Wells Environmental Focus Program Now Online
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[7/18/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Aug. 4 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests
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[7/18/2016]
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Conservation & Natural Resources Council To Hear About Seismic Monitoring July 27
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[7/11/2016]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Sen. Vogel’s 1-Pound Waiver Bill Into Law
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[7/11/2016]
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DEP Sets 5 Public Hearings On Proposed Mariner East II Natural Gas Pipeline
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[7/11/2016]
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Climate Change Advisory Committee Meets July 12 On 2015, 2018 Climate Plan Updates
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[7/4/2016]
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CFA Approves $16.8 Million In Environmental, $23.9 Million In Clean Energy Projects
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[7/4/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Reports Out Oil & Gas Royalties Bill
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[7/4/2016]
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Rep. Maher Announces Intent To Introduce New Conventional Oil & Gas Legislation
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[7/4/2016]
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DISC Infrastructure Improvement Plans Approved For UGI, Peoples Natural Gas
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[7/4/2016]
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PUC Approves Utility Plans To Encourage Natural Gas Competition
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[7/4/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/27/2016]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Into Law Killing DEP Conventional Drilling Regulations
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[6/27/2016]
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Conventional Drillers Score Victory: Blocking Drilling Regs In Allegheny National Forest
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[6/27/2016]
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Republicans Build On No More Stringent Theme: This Time On Methane Limits
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[6/27/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Meets June 27 On Oil & Gas Royalties Bill
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[6/27/2016]
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June 28 Hearing On Injection Well Permit Request In Clearfield County
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[6/27/2016]
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DEP Now Accepting Comments On Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Project Segments
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[6/20/2016]
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Bills Killing Conventional Drilling Regs, On Clean Power Plan Review Go To Governor
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[6/20/2016]
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Gov. Wolf Applauds Approval Of Final Unconventional Drilling Regulations
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[6/20/2016]
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PEC TV: Abandoned Mines/Wells Topic Of June 19 Environmental Focus On PCN
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[6/20/2016]
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PUC Distributes $187.7 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees From 2015
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[6/20/2016]
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PA Housing Authority Accepting Proposals To Improve Housing In Marcellus Shale Areas
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[6/20/2016]
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June 21 DEP Hearing On Cambria County Natural Gas Power Plant Air Permit
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[6/20/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/13/2016]
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Gov. Wolf, House GOP Agree To Make DEP Start Over On Conventional Drilling Regs
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[6/13/2016]
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PA Environmental Council: Much Work To Do To Modernize Conventional Drilling Regs
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[6/13/2016]
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Clean Power Coalition Denounces Action To Stall Climate Change, Gut DEP Drilling Regs
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[6/13/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets June 16 On Water Withdrawals, Fees
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[6/13/2016]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Get Overview Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Sampling
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[6/13/2016]
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Shell To Build Ethane Plant In Beaver, Could Qualify For $1.8 Billion State Tax Credit
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[6/13/2016]
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Penn State: Website Explores Rural Impacts Of Marcellus Gas Development
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[6/13/2016]
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Shale Insight Conference Supported By New Regional Oil & Gas Partnership
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[6/13/2016]
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Talen Energy To Co-Fire Montour Power Plant With Natural Gas, Coal
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[6/13/2016]
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PUC OKs Accelerated Replacement Of PGW Natural Gas Pipelines In Philadelphia
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[6/13/2016]
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Penn State Helps Kick Off University Coalition For Fossil Energy Research
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[6/13/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/6/2016]
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House Could Vote At Any Time To Kill Entire Drilling Reg Package Thru June 13
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[6/6/2016]
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Op-Ed: You Can Be Pro-Environment And Pro-Job Creation
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[6/6/2016]
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PennFuture Challenges Township Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling Everywhere
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[6/6/2016]
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Pamela Witmer Joins UGI Energy Services’ Leadership Team
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[6/6/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[5/30/2016]
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Winners Of 2016 Ben Franklin Shale Gas Innovation Contest Announced
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[5/30/2016]
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IFO Report: Natural Gas Production Up 12.8%, 15.4% Growth In Number Of Gas Wells
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[5/23/2016]
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House Could Vote On Resolution To Kill DEP’s Drilling Regulations At Any Time
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[5/23/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[5/16/2016]
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House Could Vote On Resolution To Kill DEP’s Drilling Regulations At Any Time
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[5/16/2016]
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Op-Ed: Protect Public From Environmental Hazards Of Drilling, Adopt DEP Regulations
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[5/16/2016]
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PA Trout Unlimited: Tell Your Legislators NOW To Let DEP Drilling Regs Move Forward
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[5/16/2016]
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Study: Water Quality Monitoring Inadequate To Detect Drilling Impacts In Susquehanna
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[5/16/2016]
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USGS Study Of Juniata River Shows No Impacts From Drilling, Acceptable Water Quality
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[5/16/2016]
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June 20 Meeting, Hearing On Changes To Air Permit For Lackawanna Gas Power Plant
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[5/16/2016]
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EDF: EPA Finalizes Oil And Gas Methane Emission Limits
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[5/16/2016]
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PEC TV: Methane Emissions Environmental Focus Program Now Online
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[5/16/2016]
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DEP Oil & Gas Staff Participate In Sustainable Energy Workshop In Mongolia
|
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[5/16/2016]
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PA League Of Women Voters Sustainable Energy & Jobs Symposium May 19 Pittsburgh
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[5/16/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[5/9/2016]
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House Committee Takes First Step To Block DEP’s Entire Final Drilling Regulations
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[5/9/2016]
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PA Environmental Council Urges Committee Not To Oppose DEP Final Drilling Regs
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[5/9/2016]
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PA Trout Unlimited: Tell Your Legislators To Let DEP Drilling Regs Move Forward
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[5/9/2016]
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Analysis: Will The Confrontation Over Drilling Regs Kill The Entire Package?
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[5/9/2016]
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Changing DEP’s Drilling Regs May Be At Heart Of Budget Compromises In Harrisburg
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[5/9/2016]
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IFO: Wolf’s Severance Tax Has Highest Rate In Nation, Nothing For The Environment
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[5/9/2016]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Held Hearing On Gas Drilling In Lake Erie Watershed
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[5/2/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Meets May 3 On IRRC Approval Of DEP Drilling Regs
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[5/2/2016]
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Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion In Westmoreland County
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[5/2/2016]
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GOP Amendment Uses DEP Personnel Money To Help Industry Review DEP Drilling Regs
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[5/2/2016]
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PSU Student Michael Cavazza Wins Society Of Petroleum Engineers Regional Contest
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[5/2/2016]
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DEP Begins Study Of Abandoned & Orphan Wells To Determine Climate Impact
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[5/2/2016]
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Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Own Hearings On Proposed PennEast Pipeline
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[5/2/2016]
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Penn State Webinar May 19 On Monitoring Seismic Activity In PA
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[5/2/2016]
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DEP Expands Particulate Matter Air Monitoring Network
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[5/2/2016]
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Meetings Of DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Committees Rescheduled To Joint Meeting June 23
|
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[5/2/2016]
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UGI Natural Gas Utilities Request Increase In Distribution System Improvement Charges
|
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[4/25/2016]
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IRRC Votes To OK Final DEP Drilling Regs., But House & Senate Will Have Their Say
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[4/25/2016]
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PA Supreme Court Denies Appeal Challenging DEP Drilling Regs
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[4/25/2016]
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SRBC: Natural Gas Industry Used 13.4 Billion Gallons Of Water, Most From 4 Counties
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[4/25/2016]
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PUC Adopts New Requirements For Natural Gas Supplier Disclosure Statements
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[4/25/2016]
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Op-Ed: Marcellus Shale Coalition: Natural Gas Enhances Our Environment
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[4/25/2016]
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Sen. Yaw Calls For Senate/House Disapproval Resolution On DEP Drilling Regulations
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[4/18/2016]
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Commonwealth Court Denies Challenge To DEP’s Drilling Regulations
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[4/18/2016]
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Senate, House Environmental Committees Disapprove DEP’s Drilling Regulations
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[4/18/2016]
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COGENT Calls Committee Action To Disapprove DEP Drilling Regs A Travesty
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[4/18/2016]
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IRRC To Consider Final DEP Drilling Regs April 21, Meeting To Be Streamed Live
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[4/18/2016]
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Senate Committee OKs Bills To Kill Conventional Drilling Regs, Delay Clean Power Plan
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[4/18/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Hearing May 4 On Variety Of Issues
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[4/18/2016]
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PEC TV: Methane Emissions Topic Of April 17 PCN Environmental Focus Program
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[4/11/2016]
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Conventional Drillers Tell Court Time Is Now To Decide Whether DEP Violated The Law
|
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[4/11/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Meets April 12 On DEP Drilling Regulations
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[4/11/2016]
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April 12: Senate Committee Considers Drilling Regs, Bill To Delay Clean Power Plan
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[4/11/2016]
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DEP Fines Rice Drilling $393,000 For Violations In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/11/2016]
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Conventional Drillers Respond To Media Reports On Drilling Reg Lawsuit
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[4/4/2016]
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19 House Members Urge IRRC To Approve Final DEP Drilling Reg Update
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[4/4/2016]
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StateImpact: Drilling Slowdown Puts DEP $2.9 Million In Debt
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[4/4/2016]
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Environmental Defense Fund: Wolf Stands Up For Critical Environmental Protections
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[4/4/2016]
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Columbia Gas, Exelon/PECO, UGI Join EPA Methane Challenge Program
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[4/4/2016]
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PennDOT Selects Natural Gas Fueling Stations Public-Private Partnership Team
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[4/4/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[3/28/2016]
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Wolf To Allow GOP Budget Bill To Become Law, But Will Veto Fiscal Code Bill
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[3/28/2016]
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PA Environmental Council Thanks Wolf For Veto, Resource Agencies Need More Funding
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[3/28/2016]
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Reports: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers File Lawsuit To Block Final DEP Drilling Regs
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[3/28/2016]
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DCED Urges House To Keep Incentives For Natural Gas Vehicles In Place
|
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[3/28/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[3/21/2016]
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House Environmental Committee To Review Final DEP Drilling Regulations
|
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[3/21/2016]
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House Committee Held Information Meeting On Natural Gas Royalty Legislation
|
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[3/21/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Meets March 23, Possibly To Discuss Drilling Regs
|
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[3/21/2016]
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Agriculture Extends 1-Pound Waiver To Avoid Gasoline Supply Disruption
|
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[3/21/2016]
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DEP Issues Water Permit For Jessup Gas-Fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County
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[3/21/2016]
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Briefing: Abandoned, Orphan Oil & Gas Wells Means They’re Abandoned And Orphans
|
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[3/21/2016]
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Briefing: DCNR Leasing Of Stream, River Bottoms For Natural Gas Development
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[3/21/2016]
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2 New Members Joint PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance
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[3/14/2016]
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Scranton Times: Jury Awards Dimock Couples $4.24M, Finds Cabot Responsible
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[3/14/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Fines Cabot Oil & Gas $11,000
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[3/14/2016]
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Mariner East 1 Pipeline Shipping To Marcus Hook, Mariner 2 To Be Complete In 2017
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[3/14/2016]
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Auditor General Launches Audit Of PUC’s Administration Of Gas Well Impact Fees
|
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[3/7/2016]
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The Clock Starts: DEP Delivers Final Drilling Regs To House, Senate, IRRC For Review
|
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[3/7/2016]
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DEP Notice Of Proposed Water Quality Approval For 78.4 Mile Tennessee Pipeline Project
|
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[3/7/2016]
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IFO: PA Natural Gas Production Increased 13.4 Percent In 2015
|
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[2/29/2016]
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PUC Asks For Increased Funding For More Rail, Pipeline Inspectors
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[2/29/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Info. Meeting March 15 On Gas Lease Royalty Bill
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[2/29/2016]
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House Dem Policy Committee March 21 Hearing On Incentivizing Use Of Natural Gas
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[2/29/2016]
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DEP OKs Coudersport Water Well Use After Contamination By Drilling Pad Spill
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[2/29/2016]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[2/29/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[2/22/2016]
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DEP Presents Final Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Report To Governor
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[2/22/2016]
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PUC: Key Safety Recommendations From Governor’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force
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[2/22/2016]
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Environmental Funding Dominos Fall As Price Of Natural Gas Drops
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[2/22/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[2/15/2016]
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U.S. Supreme Court Puts EPA Clean Power Climate Plan On Hold, DEP Will Continue
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[2/15/2016]
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Court Rejects Sunoco Challenge To Mariner East Pipeline Opponents’ Lawsuit
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[2/8/2016]
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EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Final Chapter 78, 78a Drilling Regulations
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[2/8/2016]
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Challenge To Use Of Oil & Gas Fund Monies To Be Heard By PA Supreme Court March 9
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[2/8/2016]
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CFA Accepting Applications For Water-Related, Recreation Grants Starting March 1
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[2/8/2016]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov's Schedule/Bills Introduced
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[2/8/2016]
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House Environmental Committee Informational Meeting On 2 Severance Tax Bills Feb. 8
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[2/8/2016]
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Penn State Extension Water Resources Monthly Webinars In 2016
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[2/8/2016]
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DEP Holds Hearing On Proposed Clearfield County Injection Disposal Well Feb. 16
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[2/8/2016]
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Game Commission Receives $14.6 Million From New Natural Gas Leases
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[2/1/2016]
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EQB Will Vote Feb. 3 On Whether To Update DEP’s Drilling Regulations
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[2/1/2016]
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Drilling Impact Fees Drop By $5,000 Per Well In 2015, Revenue Loss Could Be $34 Million
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[2/1/2016]
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PUC Approves Actions To Accelerate PGW’s At-Risk Natural Gas Pipeline Replacement
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[2/1/2016]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[1/25/2016]
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Gov. Wolf Announces New Methane Regulations On Oil & Gas Industry
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[1/25/2016]
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PEC, EDF, Other Groups React To New Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Proposal
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[1/25/2016]
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Associated Petroleum Industries-PA Reacts To Wolf’s Methane Reduction Proposal
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[1/25/2016]
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Op-Ed: Pennsylvania Signals Strong Steps On Methane, PA Environmental Council
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[1/25/2016]
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DEP To Webcast Feb. 3 EQB Meeting On Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Live
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[1/25/2016]
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Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Votes On Recommendations, Final Report Soon
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[1/25/2016]
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UGI Asks PUC For First Base Delivery Rate Increase In 21 Years
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[1/18/2016]
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Rep. Sturla Unveils Natural Gas Severance Tax, Nothing For The Environment
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[1/18/2016]
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Final Meeting Of Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Jan. 20
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[1/18/2016]
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Post-Gazette: EHB Sides With DEP In Regulation Of Oil And Gas Emissions
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[1/11/2016]
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DEP Releases Final Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations For Action By EQB
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[1/11/2016]
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Conventional Oil, Gas Advisory Committee Again Challenges DEP Drilling Regs
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[1/11/2016]
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Marcellus Drilling Advisory Committee Provides Drilling Reg Comments To EQB
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[1/11/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Water Withdraw Reg Changes Take Effect
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[1/11/2016]
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DEP Assesses $745K In Penalties Against Pipeline Company For Storage Tank Violations
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[1/11/2016]
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Township News Feature: Local Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Success Stories
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[1/11/2016]
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Connection For Oil, Gas & Environment In Northern Tier Reviews 2015 Major Actions
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[1/11/2016]
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DEP Hearing On Westmoreland Tenaska Natural Gas Power Plant Air Permit Jan. 26
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[1/4/2016]
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Drillers Win Procedural Ruling On DEP Permit Reviews For Impacts On Public Resources
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[1/4/2016]
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Driller EQT Wins Procedural Ruling Against DEP In Setting Penalties
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[1/4/2016]
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Op-Ed: Sneak Attack On Environmental Protection In Fiscal Code Bill
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[1/4/2016]
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DEP: Natural Gas, Coal Bed Methane Emission Reports Due March 1
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[12/28/2015]
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EPRI: Least Cost Option For PA To Meet EPA Climate Rule Is Natural Gas
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[12/28/2015]
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DEP Issues Air Permit For Gas Power Plant In Lackawanna, Water Permit Hearing Jan. 4
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[12/28/2015]
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Briefing: Underground Natural Gas Storage Fields In Pennsylvania
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[12/28/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[12/21/2015]
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DEP Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Moves Last Meeting To Jan. 20
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[12/21/2015]
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DEP Sets Dec. 22 Meetings Of Oil & Gas Advisory Committees With Limited Public Notice
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[12/21/2015]
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Heinz Endowments: Videos Of Presentations Available From Nov. Oil Train Conference
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[12/21/2015]
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CNX Gas Pays $450K In Penalties For Washington County Water Withdrawal Violations
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[12/21/2015]
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Sen. Yaw: Assistance Available For Chesapeake Leaseholders
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[12/21/2015]
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Penn State: New Drilling Technique Enhances Oil Recovery, Sequesters Carbon Dioxide
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[12/21/2015]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[12/14/2015]
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PA Environmental Council Opposes Budget Bill Killing Conventional Drilling Regulations
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[12/14/2015]
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PennLive.com: Wolf Veto Of Bill Killing Drilling Regs, Delaying Climate Plan A Possibility
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[12/14/2015]
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SRBC Approves Water Withdrawal Requests, Adopts Final Permit Transfer Regulations
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[12/14/2015]
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AG Seeks Millions In Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For Underpaid Lease Royalties
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[12/14/2015]
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Ben Franklin Shale Gas Innovation Center Annual Contest Will Award $80K In Prizes
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[12/14/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[12/7/2015]
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DEP Extends Comment Period On Draft Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Report
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[12/7/2015]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[11/30/2015]
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PA Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Challenge To Use Of Oil & Gas Fund Monies
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[11/30/2015]
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DEP Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Schedules Dec. 16 Meeting
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[11/30/2015]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Business Meeting Dec. 4
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[11/30/2015]
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DEP: Chesapeake Appalachia Fined $1.4 M For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County
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[11/30/2015]
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Bradford Commissioners Set Dec. 2 Forum On Proposed Chesapeake Royalty Settlement
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[11/23/2015]
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Environmental Quality Board Meeting Now Feb. 3 To Consider Final Drilling Regulations
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[11/23/2015]
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DEP Pipeline Task Force To Schedule Extra Meeting To Consider Recommendations
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[11/23/2015]
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50 Groups Call For Hearings On DEP Draft Pipeline Task Force Recommendations
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[11/23/2015]
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PA League Of Women Voters, Pitt Were Host To Shale And Public Health Conference Nov. 18
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[11/23/2015]
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DCNR Advisory Council Urges Strong Protection Of Loyalsock State Forest From Drilling
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[11/23/2015]
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EPA Settles Safety Violations With Gas Processing Facilities In McKean, Warren Counties
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[11/23/2015]
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DEP: Jan. 4 Hearing On Jessup Power Plant Wastewater Discharge Lackawanna County
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[11/16/2015]
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DEP Announces Release Of Draft Pipeline Task Force Report For Public Comment
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[11/16/2015]
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PennFuture: With No Natural Gas Severance Tax, Pennsylvanians Will Pay
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[11/16/2015]
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Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59K For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP
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[11/9/2015]
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DEP Secretary: Drilling Regs. Going To EQB In January, Water Plans Coming Soon
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[11/9/2015]
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Updated: DEP Posts Draft Pipeline Task Force Report For 30 Day Comment
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[11/9/2015]
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Conventional Oil Producers: Time To Recognize There Is Life West Of Susquehanna River
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[11/2/2015]
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Marcellus Drilling Advisory Committee Does NOT Block Drilling Regs Going To EQB
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[11/2/2015]
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Conventional Drilling Advisory Committee Votes To Block Drilling Regs Going To EQB
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[11/2/2015]
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Draft Report Of Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force To Be Available Nov. 6
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[11/2/2015]
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StateImpact: PA Supreme Court To Hear More Arguments On Act 13 Drilling Law
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[11/2/2015]
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Op-Ed: Despite PennLive.com Shale Series, PA Is Protecting Your Air And Water
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[11/2/2015]
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FracTracker, ForestEthics Host Oil Train Response Conference Nov. 13
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[11/2/2015]
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Sunbury Coal Power Plant To Be Replaced With 1,124 MW Natural Gas Plant
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[11/2/2015]
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Penn State Natural Gas Utilization Conference Explored Infrastructure, Demand, Tech
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[10/26/2015]
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House Environmental Committee Postpones Meeting On DEP Drilling Regulations
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[10/26/2015]
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DEP Posts Revised Drilling Regulations, Will Webcast Advisory Committee Meetings
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[10/26/2015]
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DEP To Webcast Oct. 28 Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Meeting
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[10/26/2015]
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Audit, Recommendations Released On Philadelphia Gas Works By PUC
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[10/26/2015]
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Patriot-News Series Looks At Marcellus Shale Development In PA
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[10/19/2015]
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Wolf: PA Signs Cooperative Agreement With West Virginia, Ohio On Shale Gas
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[10/19/2015]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition Releases New Video: The Faces Of Shale
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[10/12/2015]
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Bill To Encourage Reuse Of Mine Water In Drilling Operations Signed Into Law
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[10/12/2015]
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Joint Conservation Committee To Hold Environmental Issues Forum, Hearing
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[10/12/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T: 5 More Small Electric Generating Facilities In Bradford, Tioga Counties
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[10/12/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T: Study: Unconventional Gas Well Drilling Associated With Premature Births
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[10/12/2015]
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EIA: Winter Heating Costs Expected To Be Lower This Season
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[10/12/2015]
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Nearly $8.1 Million In Act 13 Drilling Fee Housing Assistance Awarded
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[10/5/2015]
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Bill Encouraging Reuse Of Treated Mine Water For Fracking Sent To Governor
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[10/5/2015]
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DEP Update On Drilling Chemical Release Into Water Supplies In Potter County
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[10/5/2015]
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Groups: EPA Oil, Gas Methane Rule Good First Step, But Must Do More
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[10/5/2015]
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PECO Plan Approved By PUC To Make Switching To Natural Gas More Affordable
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[10/5/2015]
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DCNR, DEP Increasing Efforts To Monitor Seismic Activity In Pennsylvania
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[9/28/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T.: JKLM Energy Drilling Contaminates Water Wells In Potter County
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[9/28/2015]
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Sen. Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Kill Conventional Drilling Regulations
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[9/28/2015]
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House Environmental Committee Meets On Drilling Regulations Oct. 26
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[9/28/2015]
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PennEast Pipeline Files Application With Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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[9/28/2015]
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Sunoco Mariner East Pipeline Public Forum Sept. 29 In Chester County
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[9/28/2015]
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DEP Held 3rd Meeting Of Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force
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[9/28/2015]
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Groups Demand Wolf Shutdown Pipeline Task Force, Enact Fracking Ban
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[9/21/2015]
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Results Of Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meeting On Sept. 10
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[9/21/2015]
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DEP Issues Air Permit For Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Luzerne County
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[9/21/2015]
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IFO Releases New Natural Gas Production Report
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[9/14/2015]
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August Environmental Synopsis Newsletter Available From Joint Conservation Committee
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[9/7/2015]
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Op-Ed: How A Principled Severance Tax Can Break Budget Stalemate
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[9/7/2015]
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PA TU Coldwater Conservation Corps Training Sept. 12 In Emporium
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[9/7/2015]
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EPA Hearing On Oil & Gas Methane Proposal In Pittsburgh Sept. 29
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[8/31/2015]
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Conventional Drilling Advocates Again Talk Lawsuit Over DEP Drilling Regulations
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[8/31/2015]
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Webcast Live: Sept. 2 Marcellus Drilling Advisory Committee Meets On Drilling Regs
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[8/31/2015]
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On Demand Video: Aug. 26 DEP Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Meeting
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[8/31/2015]
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DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations
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[8/31/2015]
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Ben Franklin Center Releases Study Of Drilling Wastewater Treatment & Disposal
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[8/31/2015]
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Hearing On Waiving Drilling Setbacks By Hilcorp Energy Sept. 16 In Lawrence County
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[8/31/2015]
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Meeting Added Before Sept. 2 Hearing On Natural Gas Power Plant In Lackawanna
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[8/31/2015]
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DEP Returns Application For Clean Earth, Inc. Drill Cuttings Project In Tioga County
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[8/24/2015]
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Gov. Wolf Releases Oil Train Safety Report With 27 Recommendations
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[8/24/2015]
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EPA Proposes New Standards To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[8/24/2015]
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PEC: EPA Announces Important Methane Controls, It’s Time For PA To Do The Same
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[8/24/2015]
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Environmental Defense Fund Statement On Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Rule
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[8/24/2015]
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Nature Abounds Welcomes EPA Methane Regulations Covering Oil & Gas Operations
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[8/24/2015]
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StateImpact: U.S. EIA Reports PA Drilling Revenues Much Lower Than Other States
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[8/24/2015]
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Updated: DEP To Webcast Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force Meeting Aug. 26 Live
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[8/24/2015]
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PEC TV: Environmental Focus Pipeline Task Force Show Now Online
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[8/24/2015]
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70% Of Natural Gas Drillers Do Not Respond To Survey On Use Of Small Businesses
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[8/24/2015]
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PUC Finalizes Rule On Supplier Information On Natural Gas Bills
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[8/24/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[8/17/2015]
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DEP Posts Final Version Of Unconventional, Conventional Drilling Regulation Changes
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[8/17/2015]
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Sept. 2 Hearing On Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant In Lackawanna County
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[8/17/2015]
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Report: Fracking Could Harm Delaware River Basin If Moratorium Lifted
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[8/10/2015]
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Pennsylvania Has Already Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions By Using Natural Gas
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[8/10/2015]
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Post-Gazette: Conventional Drillers Oppose Any DEP Drilling Regulation Update
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[8/10/2015]
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DEP Pipeline Task Force Topic Of Aug. 9 PEC Environmental Focus TV Program
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[8/10/2015]
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DEP Corrects Error In Reporting Air Emission Inventory, No Huge Jump In Pollution
|
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[8/3/2015]
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CBF-PA Supports Severance Tax If It Funds PA Clean Water Efforts
|
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[8/3/2015]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 6 Hearing On Withdrawal Requests
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[7/27/2015]
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PEC To Hold 2nd Environmental Policy Conference In Harrisburg October 13
|
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[7/27/2015]
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DEP Holds First Meeting Of Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force
|
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[7/27/2015]
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New PA Energy Infrastructure Alliance Formed
|
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[7/27/2015]
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DCNR Releases Update To Shale Gas Monitoring Report
|
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[7/27/2015]
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Study Finds Negligible Radiation In Ten Mile Creek, Greene County
|
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[7/27/2015]
|
Op-Ed: Here’s Where We Need To Go Next For Safe Hydraulic Fracturing
|
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[7/27/2015]
|
DEP Regional Citizens' Roundtable Tours New Panda Patriot Natural Gas Power Plant
|
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[7/20/2015]
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DEP To Webcast July 22 Pipeline Task Force Meeting Live
|
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[7/20/2015]
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Environmental Coalition Urges Gov. Wolf To Prevent Drilling In Loyalsock State Forest
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[7/13/2015]
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Wolf Appoints Members To PA Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force, Work Groups
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[7/13/2015]
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DEP: Conventional Wells Had 3 Times The Violations Of Unconventional Wells In 2014
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[7/13/2015]
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SRBC Aug. 6 Hearing On Changes To Water Resources Plan For Susquehanna Basin
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[7/13/2015]
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PA ACLU Warns Butler County Developer Over SLAPP Suit Against Drilling Opponents
|
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[7/13/2015]
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Federal Court: DEP Improperly Withheld Documents From Court In May 2015
|
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[7/6/2015]
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Republicans Vote To Kill Conventional Gas Well Regulations, Wolf Vetoes Bill
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[7/6/2015]
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PA Environmental Council Objects To Bill Killing Conventional Oil, Gas Well Regs
|
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[7/6/2015]
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Growing Greener Coalition: PA Should Enact Natural Gas Severance Tax
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[7/6/2015]
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First Meeting Of DEP Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force July 22
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[7/6/2015]
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SRBC Water Monitoring Network Shows No Water Quality Changes Due To Drilling
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[7/6/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T. Successfully Completes Pipeline Emergency Training In Northern Tier
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[6/29/2015]
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Independent Fiscal Office Report: Drilling Fees Could Decline To $189.6 Million In 2015
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[6/29/2015]
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Conventional Well Drillers File Court Action To Avoid Protecting The Environment
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[6/29/2015]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule[Updated]/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
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[6/29/2015]
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Senate Approves Measure Promoting Beneficial Use of Treated Mine Water
|
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[6/29/2015]
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House Legislation Revived To Protect Natural Gas Royalty Owners
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[6/29/2015]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[6/22/2015]
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DEP: Pipeline Task Force Members By Mid-July, Little Impact From EPA Water Rule In PA
|
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[6/22/2015]
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DEP Assesses $8.9 Million Penalty Against Range Resources For Leaking Gas Well
|
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[6/22/2015]
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Senate Committee Considers Bill On Reuse Of Treated Mine Water June 22
|
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[6/22/2015]
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PA Housing Agency Requests Proposals For Drilling Impact Fee Housing Funding
|
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[6/22/2015]
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PA Land Trust Association Statement Supporting Severance Tax Proposal
|
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[6/22/2015]
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July 7 Hearing On Proposed Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Luzerne County
|
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[6/22/2015]
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PUC Releases Outlook Report For 2014 Natural Gas Markets
|
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[6/15/2015]
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PUC Posts Details On $223.5 Million Drilling Impact Fee Disbursements For 2014
|
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[6/15/2015]
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Senate GOP Leaders Issue Statement On 2014 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Disbursements
|
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[6/15/2015]
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Rep. DiGirolamo Introduces Bipartisan Marcellus Shale Severance Tax Proposal
|
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[6/15/2015]
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Senate Panels Hear Testimony On Efforts To Improve Safety Of Crude Oil Trains
|
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[6/15/2015]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Gov’s Schedule/ Bills Introduced
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[6/15/2015]
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Penelec Projects Support Shale Gas Industry In Central PA
|
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[6/8/2015]
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Hearing Yields Little New On Severance Tax, Except They Don’t Benefit The Environment
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[6/8/2015]
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Twelve Severance Tax Proposals Pending In Senate, House, So Far
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[6/8/2015]
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Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Down Slightly For 2014
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[6/8/2015]
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Sen. Bartolotta Bill Encourages Reuse Of Treated Mine Water For Fracking Gas Wells
|
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[6/8/2015]
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Senate Committees Hold June 9 Hearing On Oil Train Safety
|
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[6/8/2015]
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EPA: Fracking Has Not Lead To Widespread, Systemic Impacts On Drinking Water
|
|
[6/8/2015]
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DEP Fines Chevron Nearly $1 Million For Fatal Greene County Gas Well Fire
|
|
[6/1/2015]
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Gov. Wolf Creates Task Force On Pipelines, Seeks Volunteers
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[6/1/2015]
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Senate Committees Hold June 1 Hearing On Severance Tax Proposals, Watch Live
|
|
[5/25/2015]
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Citizens Advisory Council Hears Presentation From Southwest PA Health Project
|
|
[5/25/2015]
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Confusion Over Governor’s Severance Tax Proposal, Retaining Drilling Impact Fee
|
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[5/25/2015]
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Senate Environmental Committee Sets Hearings On Oil Train Safety, Anthracite Mining
|
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[5/25/2015]
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5 Environmental Groups Submit Joint Comments On DEP Drilling Regulations
|
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[5/25/2015]
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Anti-Fracking, Anti-Drilling Groups Meet With Gov. Wolf
|
|
[5/25/2015]
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Gov. Wolf Sends Letter To Oil Train Companies Urging Additional Safety Steps
|
|
[5/25/2015]
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Drexel Researchers First To Detect Air Quality Effects Of Natural Gas Extraction
|
|
[5/25/2015]
|
Geisinger Medical Systems Seeking Applications For Marcellus Shale Health Studies
|
|
[5/25/2015]
|
Duquesne University Receives $2 Million Alternative, Clean Energy Funding
|
|
[5/25/2015]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Projects In Cambria, Clarion Counties
|
|
[5/18/2015]
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Sen. Brewster, Rep. Davidson Introduce Governor’s Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposal
|
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[5/18/2015]
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CFA Funds $9.8M In New Alternative, Clean Energy Projects
|
|
[5/18/2015]
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UGI To Build LNG Plant In Wyoming County
|
|
[5/18/2015]
|
DEP June 1 Hearing On Reclassifying Production Well To Disposal Well In Indiana
|
|
[5/11/2015]
|
New Techniques Shows Shale Drilling Additives In Drinking Water Taps Near Leak
|
|
[5/11/2015]
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May 12 Forum At Chatham University To Explore Waste From Shale Fracking
|
|
[5/11/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T: DEP’s Drilling Regulations Were Not Developed In A Vacuum
|
|
[5/11/2015]
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PUC OKs Faster Replacement Of PECO Gas At-Risk Natural Gas Lines
|
|
[5/4/2015]
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PA Environmental Council Offers Comments At First Hearing On DEP Drilling Regs
|
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[5/4/2015]
|
House Committee Postpones May 7 Hearing On Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations
|
|
[5/4/2015]
|
Marcellus Gas Industry Campaign Contributions Up 47 Percent
|
|
[5/4/2015]
|
Gov. Wolf Hires Rail Expert To Focus On Oil Train Safety
|
|
[5/4/2015]
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DCNR Signs Gas Leases Covering 282 Acres Of Submerged Lands For Nearly $1 Million
|
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[5/4/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[4/27/2015]
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DEP May Explore Other Funding Options For Oil & Gas Program With Declining Permits
|
|
[4/27/2015]
|
Senate Committees Hold June 1 Joint Hearing On Severance Tax Proposals
|
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[4/27/2015]
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SRBC Holds Hearing On Water Project Applications, Proposed Fee Changes April 30
|
|
[4/27/2015]
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Air Emissions Up From Natural Gas Drilling Operations, Reporting Requirements Expand
|
|
[4/27/2015]
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DEP OKs Air Quality Plan For Easton Compressor Station In Northampton
|
|
[4/27/2015]
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Natural Gas Provides Truck Fleets With Clean Fuel Alternatives In PA
|
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[4/27/2015]
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PUC Publishes Staff Report On Philadelphia Gas Pipeline Replacement Program
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[4/27/2015]
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PUC Proposal To Provide More Natural Gas Supplier Information On Utility Bills
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[4/27/2015]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Projects In Bradford, Cambria, Clarion, Elk Counties
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[4/20/2015]
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DEP Sets Dates, Places For Hearings On Revised Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations
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[4/20/2015]
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Oil And Gas Advisory Committee Meeting April 23 To Review Chapter 78A Drilling Regs
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[4/20/2015]
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House Committee Hearing On Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations Now On May 7
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[4/20/2015]
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House Committee Sets April 22 Info Meeting On Mariner East Pipeline Project
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[4/20/2015]
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Half Crude Oil Trains Bound For Refineries In Philadelphia Region
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[4/20/2015]
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Opportunity To Bid On 36 Well Plugging Projects In McKean County
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[4/20/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[4/13/2015]
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DEP Adds 15 Days, 3 Public Hearings To Solicit Comments On Chapter 78 Drilling Regs
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[4/13/2015]
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Consol Meets All Center For Sustainable Shale Development Performance Standards
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[4/13/2015]
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Updated: House Committee Hearing On DEP’s Handling Of Drilling Regulations Now April 22
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[4/13/2015]
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Auditor General Commends DEP For Implementing Shale Audit Recommendations
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[4/6/2015]
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DEP Opens Comment Period For Proposed Final Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations
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[4/6/2015]
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Analysis: Myth-- Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling Is Benign
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[4/6/2015]
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House Passes Resolution On 195th Birthday Of Col. Edwin Drake
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[4/6/2015]
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House Committee Hearing April 20 On DEP’s Handling Of Drilling Regulations
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[4/6/2015]
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COGENT Blog: Discouraged By Drilling Industry Reaction To Drilling Reg Changes
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[4/6/2015]
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DEP Begins To Collect Monthly Natural Gas Production Data From Shale Wells
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[4/6/2015]
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DEP Meeting, Hearing On Shell Ethane Plant May 5 In Beaver County
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[4/6/2015]
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April 16 Penn State Webinar On Recent Pipeline Developments
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[4/6/2015]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[4/6/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[3/30/2015]
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DEP Names Members Of Conventional Oil And Gas Advisory Committee
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[3/30/2015]
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PEC Blog: Updating Oil & Gas Drilling Rules Is Everyone’s Business
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[3/30/2015]
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PUC Approves Peoples Gas Program To Promote Access To Natural Gas Service
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[3/30/2015]
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Proposed PUC Rules On Natural Gas Supplier Disclosure Going Out For Comment
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[3/30/2015]
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Study: PennEast Pipeline Could Save Consumers In PA, NJ Nearly $1 Billion Annually
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[3/30/2015]
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DEP Sets May 5 Hearing On Air Permits For Shell Ethane Facility In Beaver County
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[3/30/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[3/23/2015]
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Sen. Yaw Pleased With Kane’s Answers On Post-Production Royalty Investigation
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[3/23/2015]
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General Permit For Hydrostatic Testing Of Tanks, Pipelines Proposed By DEP
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[3/23/2015]
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Shell Meets All 15 Center For Sustainable Shale Development Performance Standards
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[3/23/2015]
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DEP Receives Applications For Transcontinental Pipeline In Lancaster County
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[3/23/2015]
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Casey: More Protections Needed For Communities With Natural Gas Drilling
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[3/23/2015]
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Casey Pushes Bill To Provide New Resources, Training For Oil Train Responders
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[3/23/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[3/16/2015]
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Budget Hearing: DEP Forming Task Force To Look At Natural Gas Pipeline Issues
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[3/16/2015]
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Text Of Gov. Wolf’s Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposal Now Available
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[3/16/2015]
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DEP Outlines Major Changes In Final Version Of Chapter 78 Drilling Regulations
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[3/16/2015]
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PEC: DEP’s Revised Natural Gas Regulatory Proposal A Positive Step Forward
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[3/16/2015]
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Environmental Defense Fund Commends Governor On Drilling Reg Changes
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[3/16/2015]
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DEP Announces Voting, Ad Hoc Members Of Oil And Gas Technical Advisory Board
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[3/16/2015]
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DEP Issues Erosion Control, Stream Crossing Permits For Constitution Pipeline
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[3/16/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[3/9/2015]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition: Drilling Industry Already Pays Substantial Taxes
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[3/9/2015]
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DEP Holds Media Webinar March 9 On Chapter 78 Drilling Regulation Changes
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[3/9/2015]
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Senate Committees Hold Hearing On Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Investments
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[3/9/2015]
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Sen. Rafferty, Sen. Dinniman Introduce Pipeline Impact Fee Legislation
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[3/9/2015]
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Gov. Wolf Reverses Tax Increase On Clean Energy Alternative To Diesel
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[3/9/2015]
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Sunoco Withdraws Exemption From Local Zoning For Mariner East Pipeline
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[3/9/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[3/2/2015]
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IFO Estimates Act 13 Drilling Fee Revenue Down In 2014 To $220.4 Million
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[3/2/2015]
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Marcellus Shale Health Panel Bill Advances In Senate
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[3/2/2015]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Bill To Expand Natural Gas Service
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[3/2/2015]
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Rep. Conklin Introduces 2 Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposals
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[3/2/2015]
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Senate Hearing March 3 On Opportunities Created By Act 13 Drilling Fees
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[3/2/2015]
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Wolf Sends Obama Letter Asking For Federal Action To Prevent Oil Train Accidents
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[3/2/2015]
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Allegheny Institute Policy Brief: Governor Pitches Severance Tax Proposal
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[3/2/2015]
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Wall Street Journal: DEP Reviewing Oil & Gas Well Bonding To Prevent Orphan Wells
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[3/2/2015]
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PEC Blog: Avoiding Future Pollution Legacies
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[3/2/2015]
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Center For Sustainable Shale Development Expands Wastewater Treatment Standard
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[3/2/2015]
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FracTracker Introduces Interactive Map Showing Drilling On Public Lands
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[3/2/2015]
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Inaugural Meeting Of DEP Conventional Oil and Gas Advisory Committee March 26
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[3/2/2015]
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UGI Expanded Conservation Requests In Specific Areas
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[3/2/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[2/23/2015]
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DEP To Replace All Members Of The Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board
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[2/23/2015]
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Senate Passes Bill Promoting Conventional Oil Production In PA
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[2/23/2015]
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Sen. McGarrigle Introduces Severance Tax Proposal, Nothing For The Environment
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[2/23/2015]
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Rep. Boback Introduces Bill To Create Marcellus Shale Health Registry
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[2/23/2015]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 24 On Bill To Expand Natural Gas Service
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[2/23/2015]
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Senate Local Government, Environment Committees Set March 3 Drilling Fee Hearing
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[2/23/2015]
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DEP Reschedules Oil And Gas Technical Advisory Board Meeting To March 20
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[2/23/2015]
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DEP Accepting Nominations For Conventional Oil & Gas Advisory Committee
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[2/23/2015]
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C.O.G.E.N.T. Blog Post: Concerned About The Severance Tax? You Betcha!
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[2/23/2015]
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Allegheny Institute Policy Brief: Drilling Impact Fee Benefits Western PA Counties
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[2/23/2015]
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Hundreds Attend Public Meeting On Westmoreland Natural Gas Power Plant
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[2/23/2015]
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Panda Power Funds To Develop 1,000 MW Pennsylvania Power Project In Snyder County
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[2/23/2015]
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UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers In Specific Areas To Consider Voluntary Conservation
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[2/23/2015]
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West Virginia Crude Oil Train Derailment, Explosion Could Happen In PA
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[2/23/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[2/16/2015]
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Wolf Unveils Natural Gas Severance Tax Proposal, Nothing For The Environment
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[2/16/2015]
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CBF-PA: Severance Tax Proposal Should Include Funding Water Quality Cleanup
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[2/16/2015]
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Growing Greener Coalition Renews Case For Environmental Funding In Severance Tax
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[2/16/2015]
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PennFuture Lauds Wolf’s Severance Tax Proposal Even Without Money For Environment
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[2/16/2015]
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Industry Reaction To Wolf’s Severance Tax Proposal
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[2/16/2015]
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Senate, House Reaction To Wolf’s Severance Tax Proposal
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[2/16/2015]
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Analysis: Where Is The Environmental Funding In Gov. Wolf’s Severance Tax Proposal?
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[2/16/2015]
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3 Other Severance Tax Proposals Provide Funding For Environmental Restoration
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[2/16/2015]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 5 On Budget, Projects
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[2/16/2015]
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FirstEnergy Projects Support Western Pennsylvania Shale Gas Boom
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[2/16/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[2/9/2015]
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Motion Denied: Court Reconsideration Of Ruling On Transfer Of Oil & Gas Fund Monies
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[2/9/2015]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees Will Increase For Calendar 2014
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[2/9/2015]
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Rep. DiGirolamo Unveils Severance Tax Proposal, Only 10% For The Environment
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[2/9/2015]
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Senate Democrats Propose 8% Severance Tax, Only 10% For Environment
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[2/9/2015]
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DEP Hearing Feb. 17 On Operating Permit For Sunoco Pump Station In Lebanon County
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[2/9/2015]
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Range Resources Withdraws 3 Well Pad Permits In Washington County
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[2/9/2015]
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UGI Open Houses Feb. 24, 25 On Proposed Sunbury Pipeline
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[2/9/2015]
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PECO Submits Plan To PUC To Modernize Natural Gas Distribution System
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[2/9/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[2/9/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[2/2/2015]
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Wolf Signs Moratorium On All New Oil And Gas Leases In State Forests, Parks
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[2/2/2015]
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Senate/House Bills Moving
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[2/2/2015]
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House Democrats: Pennsylvania Must Work Toward Carbon Neutrality
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[2/2/2015]
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Senate Unanimously Approves Gas Leaseholder Protection Bills
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[2/2/2015]
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Feb. 2 Environmental Issues Forum On Innovative Erosion Control System
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[2/2/2015]
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Penn State Holds Marcellus Shale Volunteer Science Class In Lancaster Feb. 3
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[2/2/2015]
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Marcellus Shale NewsClips
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[1/26/2015]
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Senate/House Bills Moving
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[1/26/2015]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Oil Council, Leaseholder Bills
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