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*  [5/13/2024] We’re Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History
*  [5/13/2024] Moody & Associates Study Finds Discharge Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater To The Ground Surface ‘Not A Viable Management Practice'; Supports Ban On Road Dumping; Onsite Disposal
*  [5/13/2024] Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice
*  [5/13/2024] DEP To Propose Changes To Coproduct Determination Process In Residual Waste Regulations; Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Tried To Use This Process To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater
*  [5/13/2024] Hundreds Of Residents Warn Against Impacts Of Shale Gas Development In Cecil Township, Washington County
*  [5/13/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 4 to 10 - 32 More Abandoned Conventional Well Violations; Failure To Cleanup Spills; Failure To Get Permits
*  [5/13/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 11
*  [5/6/2024] EDF: US House Passes Bill To Locate Orphaned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells, Improve Well Plugging Technology
*  [5/6/2024] The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 27 to May 3 - Hunting Abandoned Quaker State Wells; Conventional Well Dumpster Fire; Multiple Water Withdrawal Violations
*  [5/6/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 4
*  [4/29/2024] Witness At Senate Hearing On Oil & Gas Wastewater Road Dumping Reports Her Home Has Been Surrounded By Dumping; Dumping Again On The Upswing In 2024
*  [4/29/2024] DEP Reports ZERO Shale Gas Well Permits Under Review; DEP May Have Only 20% Of The Revenue Needed To Fund Its Oil & Gas Regulation Program
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 20 to 26 - 2 Venting Shale Gas Wells; 16 More Conventional Abandoned Well Violations, 1 Shale Gas Well Abandonment
*  [4/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 27
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: The Case For An Immediate, Total Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: Penn State Expert: ‘No More Research That Needs To Be Done’ To Justify A Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: First-Hand Account Of Health, Environmental Impacts From Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater 24-Hours A Day’
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: 3.5 Million Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On PA Public Roads Since DEP’s ‘Moratorium’ On Dumping Started 6 Years Ago
*  [4/22/2024] Senate Hearing: DEP Still Evaluating The Data On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Asks Public To Report Road Dumping
*  [4/22/2024] April 25 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Advisory Council Meeting Features Discussion Of Dumping Wastewater On Public Roads; Well Plugging Grant Programs; Regs. Limiting Methane Pollution From Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 13 to 19 - Oil & Gas Well Owners Actively, Repeatedly Ignoring DEP Notices Of Violation; 12 Abandoned Wells
*  [4/22/2024] Commonwealth Court Affirms EHB Ruling Sen. Muth Lacks Standing To Appeal A DEP Permit For Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility
*  [4/22/2024] Protect PT Hosting April 30 Webinar On How Your Municipality Can Protect Itself From The Dangers Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
*  [4/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 20
*  [4/15/2024] Westmoreland County-Based Protect PT Calls For Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; CAC Member Asks For DEP Response
*  [4/15/2024] The Derrick: State Intervenes In Venango Water Case [Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill]
*  [4/8/2024] Road Dumping Continues At Will As Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
*  [4/8/2024] DEP Reports Only 1 Shale Gas Well Permit Under Review Drastically Reducing The Revenue Needed To Run Its Entire Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [4/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 30 to April 5 - 19 Abandoned Well Violations; Venting Gas; Spills; No Containment; Erosion BMP Failures
*  [4/1/2024] Republican Rep. Causer Blames DEP Database For Showing Conventional Oil & Gas Owners Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Owner Responsibility For Their Abandoned Wells
*  [4/1/2024] DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023
*  [4/1/2024] DEP: 86% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Waste Disposal, Production Reporting For 33,505 Wells In 2023
*  [4/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 23 to 29 - Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells, Waste Injection Wells; Failure To Stop Gas Venting
*  [3/25/2024] Spring Road Dumping Season Underway As Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 16 to 22 - Truck Rollover; 12 More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Annual Reports; Another Chewed Wastewater Line Leaking
*  [3/25/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 23
*  [3/25/2024] DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone
*  [3/18/2024] Shapiro Marks Plugging 200th Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Well: These Companies Will Do Anything To Avoid Paying For Plugging; It’s Not Okay Some In The Legislature Are Shielding Them; Text Well Locations
*  [3/18/2024] DEP Cites Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators For Abandoning, Not Plugging 140 More Wells Last Week; Total Now 380 Wells This Year
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 9 to 15 - Home Explosion; 140 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Methane In Water Supply; Porcupine Causes Wastewater Spill
*  [3/18/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 16
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Imposed $422,365 In Penalties On 14 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators In 2023 For Abandoning Wells, Spills, Venting Gas; 93 Operators Cited For Abandoning 271 Wells
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Declares 101 Medina Res Dev Co. LLC Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned, Not Plugged In Crawford, Erie Counties
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 2 to 8 - 119 Conventional Well Abandonment Violations; Pipeline Land Slips; Ignored Orders
*  [3/11/2024] EPA Region III Issues Formal Notice With Instructions On Appealing Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In Allegheny County
*  [3/11/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 9
*  [3/11/2024] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 19 On Drinking Water Supply Impacts From Drilling; New Financial Assurance Strategies To Prevent Abandonment; Draft Spill Policy; Injection Well Primacy; Much More
*  [3/11/2024] US Senators Introduce Bill To Ban US LNG Gas Sales To Any Entity Under The Control Of Communist China To Protect US Jobs; Americans From Price Spikes; EQT Says We Have A ‘Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China; Where Do AMERICAN Interests Lie?
*  [3/11/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: ‘Selling Oil And Natural Gas To China?’ ‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’
*  [3/11/2024] Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Exports Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence
*  [3/4/2024] 40 Individuals File Appeals, Most Handwritten, Of DEP’s Permit For Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County
*  [3/4/2024] EPA Appeals Board Allows Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal Of Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In Allegheny County To Move Forward
*  [3/4/2024] Incomplete Application For CNX Midstream Slickville Fracking Wastewater, Natural Gas Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County Withdrawn By DEP
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 2
*  [3/4/2024] Latest DEP Inspection Shows No Progress By Petro Erie In Cleaning Up The Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County 7 Months Ago
*  [3/4/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 24 to March 1 - 11 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Field Of Leaking Wells; Voluntary Plugging; No Cleanup Progress In Reno Spill
*  [2/26/2024] Penn State: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Fails To Meet Beneficial Reuse Recommendations For Use As A Dust Suppressant
*  [2/26/2024] Citizen Complaint Leads DEP To Breakout Of Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Mud That Contaminated The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County; Sunoco Pipeline Starts Cleanup
*  [2/26/2024] PUC Adopts Final Regulations Strengthening Operation, Construction Requirements For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Environmental Consideration In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
*  [2/26/2024] DEP Issues Chapter 105 Permit Correcting Violations By PA General Energy In Constructing The Shawnee Water Intake On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 24
*  [2/26/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 17 to 23 -- 7 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Defective Casing From 2018; Mariner Pipeline Drilling Mud Breakout; Additional Shell Air Penalties; Water Supply Investigation
*  [2/26/2024] DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order
*  [2/26/2024] Western PA Residents Comment After A Year Of Shell Petrochemical Plant Operations
*  [2/26/2024] Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
*  [2/19/2024] PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Billion Thru 2042; No Regard For Environmental Compliance Record
*  [2/19/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 17
*  [2/19/2024] Penn State Extension March 14 Webinar On Oil & Gas Wastewater Management - Project PARETO
*  [2/12/2024] Just 14 Days: PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 27 to Feb. 9 -- More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells; Spills, Venting Gas, Contaminated Water Supplies
*  [2/12/2024] DEP Begins Emergency Project To Plug Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Scott Twp., Allegheny County; DEP Tried To Get Well Operators To Stop The Leaks For Nearly 9 Years
*  [2/12/2024] Guest Essay: DEP Ignored Abandoned Wells During Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permitting Process
*  [2/12/2024] DEP OKs Cameron Energy Applications For Plugging 3 Orphan Conventional Wells Under Blanket Bond Increase Waiver Program; Denied 1 Plugged Well Leaking Crude Oil
*  [2/12/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 10
*  [2/12/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Narrows, But Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Shale Gas Well Permit Renewals In Westmoreland County To Move Forward
*  [2/12/2024] Liberty Twp., Citizens Group Appeal EHB Decision On Permit For Tri-County Landfill In Mercer County Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste
*  [2/5/2024] Protect PT: Commonwealth Court Vacates Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit, Remanding It To Plum Boro For Additional Fact Finding In Allegheny County
*  [2/5/2024] The Derrick: Aqua Pennsylvania Continues To Operate The Water System Serving The Village Of Reno After A Conventional Well Wastewater Release Contaminated Its Water Supply Last July In Venango County
*  [2/5/2024] What’s That Pink Stuff Spilled At Apex Energy Shale Gas Well Pad In Salem Twp., Westmoreland County?
*  [1/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining? What's That Pink Stuff?
*  [1/29/2024] Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Approves Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County [Jan. 26 Inspection Found Gas Bubbling From Well]
*  [1/29/2024] Environmental Hearing Board Denies Liberty Twp., Citizens Group Appeal Of DEP Tri-County Landfill Permit Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste In Mercer County
*  [1/29/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 27
*  [1/22/2024] 4 Months Later, XTO Energy, Inc. Said They Will Plug 4 Shale Gas Wells DEP Found To Be Abandoned And Not Plugged In September
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow
*  [1/22/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 20
*  [1/22/2024] Better Path Coalition: Norfolk Southern Train Derailment - One Year Later, Feb. 1 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued At Least 512 Violations To 95 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2023; 10 Shale Gas Operators Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued Record 6,860 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators In 2023-- Nearly 52% More Than In 2021; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [1/15/2024] 2023 Shale Gas Operator Compliance Report: 1,310 Violations; Explosions; Pad Fire, Evacuation; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack-Outs; Polluting Water Supply; Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home; More
*  [1/15/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 13
*  [1/15/2024] DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [1/8/2024] DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 30 to Jan. 3 - Saga Of Plugging Nancy 13; Conventional Well Emission Offsets; Venting Since June; Still No Well Integrity Reports
*  [1/8/2024] Saga Continues For DEP Trying To Get A Conventional Operator To Plug Warren County Well Venting Gas Since At Least 2018
*  [1/8/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Disapproves Land Recycling Risk Assessment For Dozens Of Chemicals At American Refining Group Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
*  [1/8/2024] DEP Reviewing Act 2 Cleanup Reports For Trainer Refinery, Delaware County; Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery
*  [1/8/2024] Penn State Extension Hosts Jan. 29 Webinar On Green Infrastructure And Salty Stormwater
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas
*  [1/1/2024] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 30
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Invites Comments On A Permit For A Portion Of The NFG Midstream Covington 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline In Tioga County
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Reviewing Final Act 2 Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Dozens Of Chemicals At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [1/1/2024] DEP Seeking Applicants To Provide Air Quality Small Business Technical Assistance
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Shale Gas Venting, Spills, Plugging Mess
*  [12/25/2023] Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond
*  [12/25/2023] CNX Resources Begins Disclosing General Information On Fracking Chemicals, Air Monitoring Results Online At 2 Shale Gas Well Pads
*  [12/25/2023] AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back
*  [12/25/2023] HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution
*  [12/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 23
*  [12/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests For Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
*  [12/25/2023] PA Enviro Groups File Appeal For Removal Of Coal Ash 'Mountain’ At Stronghold Digital Mining Scrubgrass Cryptocurrency Power Facility In Venango County
*  [12/18/2023] Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations
*  [12/18/2023] Videos Now Available From PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Shale Gas & Public Health Conference; Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts
*  [12/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 9 to 15 - 500 Conventional Abandoned Well Violations; 25 Days Of Shale Gas Water Withdrawals Without Permission; Wastewater Pipeline Spill
*  [12/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 16
*  [12/18/2023] Carbon County Residents Urge DEP To Deny Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. Request To Burn Tires To Fuel Its Cryptocurrency Mining Operation At The Panther Creek Power Plant
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups
*  [12/11/2023] Roulette Oil & Gas LLC Withdraws Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Application In Potter County
*  [12/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 9
*  [12/11/2023] PennEnvironment, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Sue Styropek USA To Stop Plastic Pollution In Raccoon Creek, Ohio River In Beaver County
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Reduction Program; Spill Policy; Chapter 78 Update; Certified Inspector Program; Injection Well Primacy
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 - 13 More Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs; Failure To Report Water Supply Impact In July
*  [12/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 2
*  [12/4/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Mining Damage In Washington County
*  [12/4/2023] Shapiro Administration Provides Update On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response 9 Months After Derailment
*  [11/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 25
*  [11/20/2023] State Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issued At Least 472 Violations To 90 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators; 20 NOVs To 10 Shale Gas Operators For Abandoning Their Wells Without Plugging Them So Far In 2023
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Issues Record 5,653 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators So Far In 2023; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
*  [11/20/2023] Shale Gas Operators On Track To Have More Violations In 2023 - Frozen Gas Infrastructure; Explosion; Pad Fire; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack Outs; Major Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home Highlight 2023 So Far
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 11 to 17 -- 37 Conventional Abandoned Wells; 1,260+ Shale Gas Spill; 1,000 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill In State Park; Rager Mtn Gas Storage Still Not Cleaned Up
*  [11/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Danco Industries Petroleum Contaminated Wastewater Treatment Facility In Venango County
*  [11/20/2023] Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant
*  [11/20/2023] DEP Collects $62,475 Penalty From Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Under Agreement To Correct Violations, Improve Environmental Protections At The Facility
*  [11/20/2023] DEP: Part Of $39,100 Penalty Imposed For Waste Violations Related To Implosion Of Smokestacks At Former Cheswick Power Plant In Allegheny County Will Benefit Community
*  [11/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads
*  [11/13/2023] Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro Must Acknowledge Health Risks Of Natural Gas Development And Take Meaningful Action To Protect The Public
*  [11/13/2023] Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: Gov. Shapiro's Announcement With CNX Does Not Go Far Enough In Protecting Public Health And The Environment From Natural Gas Development
*  [11/13/2023] TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses'
*  [11/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11
*  [11/13/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Columbia County Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Compressor Station Air Quality Permit And Will Hold A Hearing Dec. 19 - If One Is Requested
*  [11/13/2023] DEP To Hold Last 3 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [11/13/2023] Black Appalachian Coalition Urges Allegheny County Health Dept. To Hold US Steel Accountable, Protect Community Health, From Clairton Coke Works
*  [11/13/2023] National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
*  [11/6/2023] House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setback Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts; From Physicians On Health Studies; The Gas Industry On Job Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Sen. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Called Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’
*  [11/6/2023] Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
*  [11/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 - Fire At PA General Energy Shale Gas Well Pad; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Replugging Shale Gas Well
*  [11/6/2023] Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check
*  [11/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4
*  [11/6/2023] University Of Pittsburgh Studies Of Shale Gas Development Health Impacts To Be Discussed At Nov. 14 Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board
*  [11/6/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [11/6/2023] Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force Issues Report On The Best Ways To Increase Exports Of PA's Natural Gas; Minority Report Rebuts Need For LNG Facility, Outlines Impacts
*  [11/6/2023] Protect PT Holds Nov. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County
*  [11/6/2023] PUC Issues Emergency Order To PA American Water To Operate Troubled East Dunkard Water Authority In Greene County; Lawsuit Filed Alleging Water Tainted By Mine Drainage, Shale Gas Operations
*  [10/30/2023] House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Infrastructure Based On Latest Science, Grand Jury Report
*  [10/30/2023] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [10/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator
*  [10/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28
*  [10/30/2023] DEP Adds Details On The 3 Upcoming Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
*  [10/30/2023] House Committee To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On State’s Electronics Waste Recycling Law; Current Program Is Broken
*  [10/23/2023] 9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’
*  [10/23/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 14 to 20 - 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Conventional Gas Migration Incident; Inactive Shale Gas Wells
*  [10/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 21
*  [10/23/2023] EPA, West Virginia Officials Working To Secure Fairmount Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Facility To Prevent Release Of Radioactive, Hazardous Materials
*  [10/23/2023] Encina Fort Union LLC Withdraws Stormwater Permit Application For A Facility That Chemically Recycles Waste Plastics In Northumberland County After It Could Not Respond To Major Deficiencies In 4 Months
*  [10/23/2023] PennDOT, Keep PA Beautiful Name 33 Students As The 2023-24 Young Ambassadors Promoting A Clean And Beautiful Pennsylvania
*  [10/16/2023] Vice Chair Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council Asks DEP To Report On University Of Pittsburgh Study That Found At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Production Waste Sent To Landfills Was Unaccounted For In One Year
*  [10/16/2023] Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Still Fighting To Make Road Dumping Its Wastewater Legal; DEP Introduces Concepts Of A ‘Life Insurance Policy’ For Plugging Wells; Certified 3rd Party Inspectors
*  [10/16/2023] The Derrick: Permanent Alternate Water Supply Being Considered For Village Of Reno, Venango County After Contamination By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
*  [10/16/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
*  [10/16/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14
*  [10/16/2023] Better Path Coalition: Oct. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure
*  [10/16/2023] Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [10/16/2023] DOE Awards Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Hub In Western PA, Renewable/Nuclear Power-Based Hydrogen Hub In Eastern PA; Reactions
*  [10/9/2023] Petro Erie Inc. Again Claims It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s 2nd Order To Cleanup Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County
*  [10/9/2023] Environmental Hearing Board Will Hear Key Arguments On Appeal By A Washington County Family Alleging Shale Gas Drilling Contaminated Their Water Supply With PFAS And Other Chemicals
*  [10/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 -- Company Tries To Limit DEP Investigation; Unauthorized Water Withdrawals; Can’t Pay For Reno Cleanup; Venting Gas Wells; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
*  [10/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 7
*  [10/9/2023] The Allegheny Front: Three Rivers Waterkeeper Citizen Monitoring Finds Plastics Maker Styrenics LLC Discharging Plastic Nurdles Into Ohio River, Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Them
*  [10/2/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?
*  [10/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 30
*  [10/2/2023] Gettysburg Times: DCNR Secretary Dunn Stresses Connection Between Community And Protection Of Natural Resources Giving People ‘A Sense Of Place’ That Makes PA Unique
*  [10/2/2023] Guest Essay: DEP Should Invest $33.6 Million In New Federal Funding Wisely To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Not Reward The Industry For Bad Behavior
*  [9/25/2023] Senators Santarsiero, Comitta To Introduce Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites From 500 To 2,500 Feet, Based On Latest Science
*  [9/25/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 16 to 22 - 2nd Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
*  [9/25/2023] Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals 2nd DEP Order Requiring The Operator To Restore The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply Contaminated By A Spill Of Conventional Oil Well Wastewater In Venango County
*  [9/25/2023] EPA Approves Permit For Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Boro, Allegheny County; 30 Days To File Appeal
*  [9/25/2023] DEP Hears Concerns, Some Support From Water Resources Committee On Draft Reg. On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases
*  [9/25/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 23
*  [9/25/2023] Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 8 Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawals - 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Home To The Hellbender
*  [9/25/2023] Game Commission Board OKs More Shale Gas Drilling In Lycoming County, Home To The Hellbender, And Sullivan County
*  [9/25/2023] Dickinson College Will Host An Evening With Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska On Her Groundbreaking Advocacy Work Oct. 4
*  [9/18/2023] Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week
*  [9/18/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 9 to 15; First Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? Another Leaking Equitrans Storage Well; Plugging Grant Twp. Injection Well
*  [9/18/2023] Environmental Health Project Finds Results ‘Very Concerning’ From University Of Pittsburgh Studies Showing Links Between Natural Gas Development And Lymphoma Cancer, Worsening Asthma Conditions, Lower Birth Weights
*  [9/18/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 16
*  [9/18/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For A Texas Eastern Pipeline Project Going Under The Schuylkill River In Chester, Montgomery Counties
*  [9/11/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 2 to 8; Equitrans Issued NOVs For Failing To Provide DEP Inspectors Access To Facilities As Requested
*  [9/11/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 9
*  [9/11/2023] State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
*  [9/11/2023] DEP Provides Oil & Gas Advisory Board With Updates On Well Plugging Financial Assurance; Pitt Health Studies; Funding Options For Program; Civil Penalty Policy
*  [9/4/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Proposed Permit Fee Changes; Well Plugging Financial Assurances To Prevent Abandonments; Environmental Justice Policy; Injection Well Primacy
*  [9/4/2023] Between The Lines Podcast: Pediatrician Dr. Ned Ketyer Explains The Results Of New Studies Of The Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Development On Children And Adults
*  [9/4/2023] The Center Square: State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
*  [9/4/2023] EQT Shale Gas Wastewater Truck Rolls Over Spilling More Than 4,600 Gallons Of Wastewater In Lycoming County
*  [9/4/2023] Do Not Consume Water Advisory Lifted In Village Of Reno; Petro Erie, Inc. Barely Begins Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Site That Contaminated The Water Supply In Venango County
*  [9/4/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 26 to Sept. 1-- Uncontrolled Venting Of Shale Gas Well; 4,600 Gallon Spill Of Shale Gas Wastewater; Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Barely Begins
*  [9/4/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 2
*  [8/28/2023] Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals DEP’s July Field Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill Contaminating Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County; 2nd Appeal May Be Coming
*  [8/28/2023] DEP Finds 2 More Petro Erie, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Tanks With A Pipe Leading To A Discharge Area In A Ditch In Sugarcreek Boro, Venango County
*  [8/28/2023] Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Cambria County Storage Facility Was Caused By Corrosion In Conventional Gas Well Casing
*  [8/28/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 19 to 25 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Gas Frack-Out; More Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Equitrans Cleanup Continues
*  [8/28/2023] Republican Rep. Krupa To Introduce Bill To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
*  [8/28/2023] Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation Of Oil & Gas Development
*  [8/28/2023] 150+ Residents Of Chester Opposed To An LNG Natural Gas Export Facility Proposed In Their Community Let Their Feelings Be Known To The House Philadelphia LNG Export Task Force
*  [8/28/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 26
*  [8/28/2023] On Demand: ReImagine Appalachia Faith In Action: Environmental Justice For All - Ensuring Equity And Benefits Across Our Most Climate-Impacted Communities
*  [8/28/2023] Funding Now Available For Energy Efficiency, Farm Conservation Projects Thru DEP’s Small Business Advantage Grant Program
*  [8/21/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Studies Find Shale Gas Wells Can Make Asthma Worse; Children Have An Increased Chance Of Developing Lymphoma Cancer; Slightly Lower Birth Weights
*  [8/21/2023] State Dept. Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’
*  [8/21/2023] Post-Gazette Editorial: Who Pays For Natural Gas Development’s Harm? Pennsylvania Should Acknowledge The Clear Fact That Fracking Has Hurt People, Specifically Children
*  [8/21/2023] The Derrick: DEP Issues Order To Petro Erie, Inc. To Restore Village Of Reno Water System, Cleanup Contamination Caused By Its Conventional Well Wastewater Release; 1 Month Without Clean Water
*  [8/21/2023] DEP Investigating Other Possible Sources Of Methane As Part Of Response To Plum Borough Home Explosion, Including Nearby Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [8/21/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 12 to 18; DEP Orders Restoration Of Water Supply; Conventional Wells Abandoned; Leaking Methane, Fluids
*  [8/21/2023] DEP, SRBC Invite Comments On New Permits For PA General Energy Shawnee Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal On The Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County After Failure To Comply With Its First Permit
*  [8/21/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 19
*  [8/14/2023] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
*  [8/14/2023] Mayor Of Sugarcreek Asks For Donations To Refill Village Of Reno Water Tank After Contamination In Venango County; Emergency Water Distribution Resumes; Contamination From Conventional Oil Wastewater Tanks Suspected
*  [8/14/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence
*  [8/14/2023] EPA: G2 STEM LLC Withdraws Application For Oil/Gas Wastewater Underground Injection Well Permit In Fayette County
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Comment Period On Proposed Roulette Oil/Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County To Sept. 7
*  [8/14/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 12
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. 2025
*  [8/14/2023] DEP Starts Taxpayer-Funded Hazardous Sites Cleanup Process For American Biodiesel Site In Erie County; Hearing Sept. 21
*  [8/7/2023] New Penn State Study: Brine Water Pumped From Played-Out Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Used As Dust Suppressants, Winter Road Treatments Exceed Environmental, Health Standards, Just Like Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Water
*  [8/7/2023] Guest Essay: Take A Deep Breath! Now Think What You Just Inhaled. If You Live Along A Dirt Road You Could Be Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [8/7/2023] DEP Investigates Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Leak As Possible Source Of Village Of Reno Water Supply Contamination In Venango County; Customers Under Do Not Consume Advisory For 2+ Weeks
*  [8/7/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills
*  [8/7/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 5
*  [8/7/2023] Eureka Resources Extracted 97% Pure Lithium Carbonate Used In Making Lithium-ion Batteries From Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [7/31/2023] Comments Submitted On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County By Save Our Streams PA Show Principals Have Been Involved In Abandoning 8 Previous Injection Wells
*  [7/31/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 15 to 22; 8 More New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/31/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 22 to 28
*  [7/31/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 29
*  [7/24/2023] Marcellus Drilling News/The Allegheny Front: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Fracking Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In One Year; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream Sediments
*  [7/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 22
*  [7/24/2023] Governor’s Regulatory Agenda: DEP To Propose Annual Permit Fee For Unconventional Shale Gas Operations; Updated Waste, Other Regulations Covering Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Coming
*  [7/24/2023] PennVEST Invests $116.9 Million In 22 Drinking Water, Wastewater, Nonpoint Source Projects; And An Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility
*  [7/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells
*  [7/17/2023] DEP: Risk Assessment Did Not Prove Chemicals Polluting Soil & Groundwater At American Refinery Group’s Bradford Petroleum Refinery Met Safe Environmental Cleanup Standards
*  [7/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 15
*  [7/17/2023] 2nd Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update Conference Aug. 9 In Pittsburgh On Managing Shale Gas, Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Rejects MarkWest Act 2 Cleanup Notification For 10,000 Gallon Natural Gas Condensate Spill At Compressor Station In Robinson Twp., Washington County, Notice Is Re-sent
*  [7/10/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Draft Shale Gas Well Emergency Response, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plan Guidance
*  [7/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 1 to 7; New Brownfield Cleanups; Shale Gas Well Plugging Picks Up; New Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [7/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 8; New Brownfield Cleanups Increase
*  [7/3/2023] House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On Bills Increasing Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities, Cryptocurrency Permit Moratorium
*  [7/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
*  [6/26/2023] 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station
*  [6/26/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional Wells; Frack Out Investigation
*  [6/26/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 24
*  [6/26/2023] House Environmental Committee Holds June 27 Meeting On Bills Increasing Setback Distances From Natural Gas Infrastructure, 2-Year Moratorium On Cryptocurrency Air Permits
*  [6/26/2023] DEP To Hold July 25 Hearing On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County
*  [6/26/2023] EPA Issues Permit For Class IID Oil & Gas Waste Underground Injection Well In Jefferson County
*  [6/19/2023] Casey, Fetterman Announce $5.5 Million In Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells In The Allegheny National Forest
*  [6/19/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 10 to 16 -- Leaking Conventional Wells; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Using Tape To Repair Containment Liner
*  [6/19/2023] Robinson Twp., Washington County Seeks Answers To Cleanup Of MarkWest Liberty Midstream 10,000 Gallon Spill Of Natural Gas Condensates After Company Sends Notice To Wrong Municipality
*  [6/19/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 17
*  [6/19/2023] DEP Posts Solicitation For Bids To Plug 23 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Injection Wells Owned By ARG Resources, Inc. And Pennzoil Company In Elk County
*  [6/12/2023] MarkWest Liberty Midstream Files To Clean Up 10,000 Gallon Natural Gas Condensate Spill Caused By December’s Winter Storm Elliot Freeze In Washington County
*  [6/12/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 3 to 9: Plugged Conventional Well Frack-Out; 10 More NOVs For Abandoning Conventional Wells
*  [6/12/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 10
*  [6/12/2023] Better Path Coalition: June 22 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Laurie Barr On Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells
*  [6/12/2023] Inside Climate News: Abandoned Conventional Oil/Natural Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens, Other Harmful Pollutants In PA, Study Shows
*  [6/12/2023] EPA Invites Comments On Proposed Oil/Gas Waste Underground Injection Well In Fayette County; July 11 Virtual Public Hearing Set
*  [6/12/2023] Federal Court Declines To Prohibit PA Environmental Hearing Board From Hearing Appeals Of DEP Permits Issued For Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline Project
*  [6/12/2023] Residents, Environmental Groups Rally Against Shell Petrochemical Plant's Pollution In Beaver County
*  [6/5/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3
*  [5/29/2023] Conventional Oil/Gas Industry Bothered By DEP Records Showing They Receive NOVs For Abandoning An Average Of 561 Oil/Gas Wells A Year
*  [5/29/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 20 to 26; DEP Issues More NOVs For Conventional Well Abandonments
*  [5/29/2023] Democrats On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year
*  [5/29/2023] Citizens Voice Editorial: Renew Bonds To Close, Cleanup Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
*  [5/29/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 27
*  [5/29/2023] 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]
*  [5/29/2023] Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Industry]
*  [5/29/2023] 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
*  [5/29/2023] EPA/DEP: Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc. To Pay $2.4 Million Penalty For Multiple Environmental Violations In Allegheny County
*  [5/22/2023] 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
*  [5/22/2023] Citizens Voice Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling
*  [5/22/2023] 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
*  [5/22/2023] PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 13 to 19: Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well
*  [5/22/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
*  [5/22/2023] Environmental Groups Launched Effort May 4 Asking For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities, So Far No Response
*  [5/22/2023] Zefiro Methane Corp. Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets
*  [5/15/2023] PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County
*  [5/15/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13
*  [5/15/2023] Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads
*  [5/8/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
*  [5/8/2023] Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills
*  [5/8/2023] Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA
*  [5/8/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6
*  [5/8/2023] Environmental Groups Circulate Petition Asking Dept. of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [5/8/2023] DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. of Health, CDC Launch Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
*  [5/8/2023] Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
*  [5/8/2023] House Committee Moves First PA Bill Setting New Rail Safety Requirements In Response To Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [5/8/2023] Three Rivers Waterkeeper Seeking Volunteers For 3 Rivers Watch, Training Starts For Pollution Patrols; Other Upcoming Events
*  [5/1/2023] House Hearing: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells
*  [5/1/2023] EDF: Pennsylvania Has 55,000 Oil/Gas Wells At High Risk Of Being Abandoned; 51,000 Wells At Risk Of Being Transferred To Low Solvency Owners; Current Conventional Well Owners Abandon 561 Wells A Year, On Average
*  [5/1/2023] Guest Essay: Conventional vs Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells - Not As Different As You Might Think
*  [5/1/2023] House Committee Meets May 2 On Bill To Restore Authority To Review Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging Bonding Amounts; Help Prevent Routine Abandonment Of An Average Of 561 Wells A Year
*  [5/1/2023] Republican Herald Editorial: Implement Reforms For Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking
*  [5/1/2023] Delaware River Basin Commission Clarifies New Regulations On Oil/Gas Fracking Wastewater Bans Road Spreading, Disposal From Conventional Wells
*  [5/1/2023] DEP Tentatively Sets May 18 Online Public Conference On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County; Opponents Again Call For Robust Public Participation Process
*  [5/1/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
*  [5/1/2023] Citizen Complaint Results In Finding 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells Owned By Prosperity Oil Co. Continuing To Vent Natural Gas In Washington County
*  [5/1/2023] Chesapeake Appalachia: DEP Inspections Find Violations For Spills, Releases, Continuing Defective Casing/Cementing At Shale Gas Well Pads In Bradford, Susquehanna Counties
*  [5/1/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 29
*  [5/1/2023] 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
*  [5/1/2023] Eyes On Shell Reports Shell Petrochemical Plant Fenceline Monitors Found Benzene Emissions Above Toxic Substances Limits; No Timeline For Restarting Plant; DEP Issued Another NOV For Air Violations
*  [5/1/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
*  [5/1/2023] DEP Posts Soil, Water Sampling Results Related To Monitoring PA For Impacts From Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [4/24/2023] New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study
*  [4/24/2023] PA Supreme Court Upholds DEP’s Authority To Protect Public Resources, Playgrounds From Adverse Impacts Of Shale Gas Well Operations; Do Not Mistake This Win For Adequate Protection
*  [4/24/2023] Concerned Residents, Advocates Call On DEP For The Opportunity To Comment On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Potter County
*  [4/24/2023] House Environmental Committee Sets April 24 Hearing On Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; New Bill Restores Authority To Increase Conventional Well Bonding
*  [4/24/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/24/2023] 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
*  [4/24/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22
*  [4/17/2023] Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
*  [4/17/2023] Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas; Same Facility Plagued Community With Blowdowns 3 Times A Day, 7 Days A Week For Nearly 10 Years Until Criminal Charges Brought Against CNX
*  [4/17/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
*  [4/17/2023] How Chesapeake Appalachia Created Another New Shale Gas Brownfield In Bradford County; Timberline Energy Plugs Its Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County
*  [4/17/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 15
*  [4/17/2023] The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
*  [4/17/2023] DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
*  [4/17/2023] City & State PA: PA Energy Summit May 11 In Pittsburgh, Featuring Keynote Speaker Acting DEP Secretary Negrin
*  [4/10/2023] House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report
*  [4/10/2023] New University Of Chicago Medical Study Connects Natural Gas Development In PA To Real, Serious Human Health Outcomes And Should Be A Call To Action For Policy Makers
*  [4/10/2023] Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA
*  [4/10/2023] Moms Clean Air Force: Strong Proposed EPA Petrochemical Plant Rules Are One Step Closer To Reality; Shell Petrochemical Plant Covered By Separate Proposed Rule
*  [4/10/2023] PennWest University California To Host April 13 In-Person/Online Program Ask The Expert: Environmental Disasters On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
*  [4/10/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
*  [4/10/2023] 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
*  [4/10/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
*  [4/10/2023] Local Officials, Residents, Advocacy Groups Call On DEP To Conduct A Robust Public Participation Process For Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Applications
*  [4/10/2023] 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
*  [4/10/2023] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant, Westmoreland County
*  [4/3/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands
*  [4/3/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1
*  [4/3/2023] Guest Essay: A Conservative Argument For Clean Energy -- Follow The Market, Fossil Fuels Are No Bargain
*  [4/3/2023] Better Path Coalition Hosts April 26 Webinar: No Miracles Needed - How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate, Clean Our Air
*  [4/3/2023] Penn State Hosts May 22-23 Climate Solutions Symposium
*  [3/20/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
*  [3/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 18
*  [3/20/2023] 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
*  [3/20/2023] DEP To Submit Letter Of Intent To EPA As Early As This Week For Primacy To Regulate Underground Injection Wells
*  [3/20/2023] PA Business Groups Urge EPA To Speed Up Approval Of State Primacy Applications For Injection Well Regulation
*  [3/20/2023] Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
*  [3/20/2023] March 29 Southeastern PA Town Hall Meeting In Chester County To Focus On Health, Environmental Impacts Of Fossil Fuels
*  [3/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
*  [3/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 11
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 13 To Hear Updates On Regulation Of Natural Gas Storage Areas, Chapter 78 Regs; Federal Well Plugging Program, Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Development
*  [3/13/2023] Pennsylvania State Actions Responding To Ohio/PA Train Derailment - Week Of March 6
*  [3/13/2023] House Democratic & Republican Policy Committees Hold March 14 Joint Hearing On Impact Of Ohio/PA Train Derailment In Beaver County
*  [3/13/2023] Norfolk Southern CEO To Appear March 20 Before PA Senate Committee To Answer Questions About Ohio/PA Train Derailment; Committee Subpoenas Documents
*  [3/13/2023] 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
*  [3/13/2023] Sen. Bob Casey Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee On Ohio/PA Train Derailment
*  [3/13/2023] U.S. Senate Hearing: Energy, Environmental Impacts Of Cryptocurrency Mining In Pennsylvania
*  [3/13/2023] DEP Hosting 6 Regional Engagement Sessions On Climate Action For Environmental Justice Communities Starting April 5
*  [3/6/2023] Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged
*  [3/6/2023] PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time To Hear Bold Leadership On Oil & Gas In Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Address
*  [3/6/2023] 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
*  [3/6/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
*  [3/6/2023] Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5% Compared To Last Year
*  [2/27/2023] 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
*  [2/27/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites
*  [2/27/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 25
*  [2/27/2023] Scranton Times Editorial: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Abandoned Responsibility
*  [2/20/2023] 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
*  [2/20/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 11 to 17
*  [2/20/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 18
*  [2/20/2023] DEP Approves Permits For Transcontinental Gas Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project in Luzerne, Northampton, Bucks, Chester, Monroe Counties
*  [2/20/2023] 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
*  [2/20/2023] Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. 21 Webinar On DEP's Federally-Funded Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
*  [2/20/2023] 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
*  [2/13/2023] Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High
*  [2/13/2023] DCED Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting Agenda Includes Discussion Of Poor Compliance Record Of Industry, Status Of Regulations Updates, Challenge To VOC/Methane Regs
*  [2/13/2023] Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Pipeline Explosions, Uncontrolled Releases Put Spotlight On Public Health, Safety Threats Posed By Petrochemical, Natural Gas Industrial And Pipeline Infrastructure In PA
*  [2/13/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [2/13/2023] Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
*  [2/13/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 11
*  [2/13/2023] PA Physicians For Social Responsibility Host Feb. 22 Webinar On Radioactive Contaminants From PA Oil And Gas Operations
*  [2/6/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 4
*  [1/30/2023] Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
*  [1/30/2023] House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
*  [1/30/2023] DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
*  [1/30/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 21 to 27
*  [1/30/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units Up To 100 Million Btu/Hour; Benefits Oil & Gas Industry
*  [1/30/2023] Damascus Citizens For Sustainability Files Lawsuit Challenging The Delaware River Basin Commission Fracking Wastewater Rule Generally And For Allowing Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Creating Widespread Pollution
*  [1/30/2023] DEP Releases Bid Solicitation To Plug 19 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Forest County All At Taxpayer Expense
*  [1/30/2023] EPA Proposes To Deny Permission For Continued Operation Of 6 Coal Ash Disposal Areas, Including The Conemaugh Generating Station In Westmoreland County
*  [1/23/2023] Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
*  [1/23/2023] DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
*  [1/23/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20
*  [1/23/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21
*  [1/23/2023] 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
*  [1/16/2023] FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds
*  [1/9/2023] Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
*  [1/9/2023] DEP Releases Bid Solicitations To Plug 46 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Armstrong, Washington Counties At Taxpayer Expense
*  [1/9/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
*  [1/9/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 7
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industry Has Record Year: Cost, Criminal Convictions Up; $3.1 Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts
*  [1/2/2023] DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’
*  [1/2/2023] Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County
*  [1/2/2023] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 24 to 30
*  [1/2/2023] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/26/2022] Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry
*  [12/26/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
*  [12/26/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/26/2022] League Of Women Voters, Partners Host Jan. 12 Webinar On LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety
*  [12/19/2022] Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty
*  [12/19/2022] Republican Herald/Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Professes Unwarranted Faith In Shale Gas Drillers
*  [12/19/2022] AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
*  [12/19/2022] DEP Assesses $600,000 Penalty For Illegal Disposal Of Over 1,800 Truck Loads Of Oil & Gas Waste Drill Cuttings In Fayette County
*  [12/19/2022] Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
*  [12/19/2022] Presentations Now Available From Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov. Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health
*  [12/19/2022] EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions
*  [12/19/2022] CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’
*  [12/12/2022] Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
*  [12/12/2022] Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking
*  [12/12/2022] Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
*  [12/12/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
*  [12/12/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/5/2022] DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro
*  [12/5/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
*  [12/5/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [12/5/2022] DEP Invites Comments On NPDES Water Quality Permit Renewal For Little Blue Run Coal Ash Disposal Area In Beaver County
*  [11/28/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
*  [11/28/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/28/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Announces 7 Winners Of 2022 Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship; Including PA’s Laurie Barr
*  [11/28/2022] Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign
*  [11/28/2022] Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 7 On Shale Gas Fracking Wastewater Regulations
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
*  [11/28/2022] FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
*  [11/28/2022] NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds
*  [11/28/2022] Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry
*  [11/21/2022] 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
*  [11/21/2022] Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Invites Comments On Texas Eastern Pipeline Replacement Projects Affecting Cambria, Fayette, Huntingdon, Indiana, Lebanon Counties
*  [11/21/2022] Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
*  [11/21/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk
*  [11/21/2022] Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities
*  [11/21/2022] IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
*  [11/21/2022] Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard
*  [11/21/2022] U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years
*  [11/21/2022] DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County
*  [11/14/2022] What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
*  [11/14/2022] Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
*  [11/14/2022] Observer-Reporter: Ongoing Water Donation Drive Helping Dozens Of Greene County Families Who Haven’t Had Clean Drinking Water Since June Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site
*  [11/14/2022] NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
*  [11/14/2022] PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
*  [11/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
*  [11/7/2022] York Dispatch Editorial: Energy Companies Are Reporting Record Profits, PA Lawmakers Don’t Need To Give Them More Tax Breaks
*  [11/7/2022] Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Again Fails To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding; Fails To Report On Bonding Petitions; Or Issue Conventional Drilling Compliance Report
*  [11/7/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [11/7/2022] Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
*  [11/7/2022] On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
*  [11/7/2022] Independent Fiscal Office Estimates CY 2022 Drilling Impact Fee Will Generate Record $274.8 Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record
*  [10/31/2022] Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
*  [10/31/2022] Citizens Voice Editorial: State Insists On Paying Polluters
*  [10/31/2022] Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group: Potential Impacts Of Shale Gas Development Forest Fragmentation On Tioga State Forest Birds
*  [10/31/2022] Bill Goes To Governor Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Senate, House Again Fail To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding
*  [10/31/2022] DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
*  [10/31/2022] A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates
*  [10/31/2022] Scranton Times/Republican Herald Editorial: Legislators Like Plastics, Expect More
*  [10/31/2022] Penn State Research: PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Persist Through Wastewater Treatment, May Enter Crops
*  [10/31/2022] PUC Approves 9% Increase In The Basic Monthly Bill For Typical PECO Natural Gas Division Customers; On Top Of An 103.2% Increase In Cost Of Natural Gas
*  [10/31/2022] Clean Air Council Appeals DEP Waste Permit Exemption For Plastics Processing Facility In Northumberland County
*  [10/24/2022] Republican Herald Editorial: Dangerous Course For Oil & Gas Well Emissions, Obstructionists Should Get Out Of The Way
*  [10/10/2022] 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
*  [10/10/2022] 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
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Tells Citizens Advisory Council Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Still Does Not Meet Residual Waste Regulations; Remains Illegal
*  [9/26/2022] Penn State Research Links Groundwater Contamination To Areas Of Unconventional Shale Gas And Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling
*  [9/26/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/19/2022] PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host Nov. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
*  [9/19/2022] University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
*  [9/19/2022] Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste
*  [9/19/2022] DEP Bans Sale Of Electronic Devices Made By 4 Manufacturers Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law
*  [9/19/2022] PennEnvironment, PA Resources Council Host Sept. 21 Webinar On A Plan To Reduce Waste, Improve Recycling Efforts, And Meet Modern Waste Challenges
*  [9/12/2022] 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
*  [9/12/2022] House Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 20 ‘Wellhead To Stovetop’ Hearing On Natural Gas In PA; Will They Mention $70 Million In Pipeline Penalties Assessed So Far?
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
*  [9/12/2022] Explainer: So Why Does A Susquehanna County Gas Company Have To Raise Rates 33.2% When Susquehanna County Is The #1 Shale Gas Producer In PA?
*  [9/12/2022] New Book Edited By Researchers From 3 Pittsburgh Universities Now Available On The Environmental Impacts From The Development Of Unconventional Oil & Gas Reserves
*  [9/12/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Sept. 20 To Hear Waste Program Overview, State Water Plan Update And Discuss A Transition Paper For Incoming Governor
*  [9/5/2022] 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
*  [9/5/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021
*  [9/5/2022] 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
*  [9/5/2022] DRBC: Microplastics Pervasive In Waters Adjacent To Delaware River’s Population Centers
*  [8/29/2022] EPA To Hold Aug. 30 Hearing On Proposed Drilling Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
*  [8/22/2022] Grant Township Charter Banning Drilling Wastewater Injection Wells Struck Down By State Court; Decision Appealed To PA Supreme Court
*  [8/22/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment
*  [8/22/2022] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Driller Compliance Review Will Go Back At Least 5 Years; Whether It Will Be Public Document Not Decided
*  [8/22/2022] 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
*  [8/22/2022] New Poll: Strong Majority Of PA Voters Support Climate Action To Cut Carbon and Methane Pollution
*  [8/22/2022] PA PUC: Cost Of Natural Gas Provided By Major Utilities In PA Increased As Much As 154% Over Last Year
*  [8/22/2022] New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React
*  [8/22/2022] Climate Wire: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Includes New $700 Million Grant Program To Mitigate Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
*  [8/15/2022] PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 18 On Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater; Methane Regs, Conventional Regs, Well Plugging, More
*  [8/15/2022] Environmental Health Project: Setback Distances And The Regulations We Need To Protect Public Health From Oil & Gas Facilities
*  [8/8/2022] Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling: An Industrial Machine Moving Across The PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities & Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes
*  [8/8/2022] DEP Collects $100,000 Penalty From Harsco Corp. For Improperly Disposing Of 375,618 Tons Of Metal Slag In Armstrong County
*  [8/1/2022] Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
*  [8/1/2022] AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine
*  [8/1/2022] 16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July
*  [8/1/2022] 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
*  [7/25/2022] Gov. Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions
*  [7/25/2022] DEP Concerned About Impact Of New Law Blocking Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding On New Federal Well Plugging Funds, Regulating Waste Injection Wells
*  [7/25/2022] Natural Gas Producer Olympus Energy Earns Premier Environmental Performance Ratings From Project Canary
*  [7/25/2022] DEP To Hold 2 Hearings On Air Quality Permit For Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Leachate Evaporation System
*  [7/18/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets July 25 To Hear Presentation On Penn State Study On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
*  [7/18/2022] Guest Essay: Gov. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry
*  [7/11/2022] Gov. Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1 Billion Cleanup Liability For Taxpayers
*  [7/11/2022] PA Environmental Council: Without A Veto Of HB 2644, PA's Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Problem May Be All But Permanent
*  [7/11/2022] DEP Issues 20% More NOVs To Oil & Gas Well Drillers For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2nd Quarter
*  [7/11/2022] 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
*  [7/11/2022] 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’
*  [7/4/2022] Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land
*  [7/4/2022] Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
*  [7/4/2022] 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
*  [7/4/2022] EPA Awards Villanova University Innovative Solutions Student Research Grant Related To PFAS Stabilization In Soils
*  [6/27/2022] New General Assembly-Mandated General Permit Allows Unconventional Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facilities To ‘Pop-Up’ Within 300 Feet Of You Without Notice
*  [6/20/2022] 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
*  [6/13/2022] On-Site Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Disposal Plans Making Hundreds Of Drilling Sites Waste Dumps
*  [6/13/2022] 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
*  [6/13/2022] AG Shapiro Charges Energy Corporation Of America/Greylock, 2 Employees With Environmental Crimes Involving Leaks At Oil & Gas Well Sites In Clearfield, Greene Counties
*  [6/6/2022] DEP Advises 18 Municipalities Where Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Occurring The Practice Is Illegal And Considered Waste Disposal
*  [5/30/2022] New Penn State Study Finds Runoff From Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On Unpaved Roads Contains Pollutants That Exceed Human-Health, Environmental Standards
*  [5/30/2022] DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority
*  [5/30/2022] Earthworks, FracTracker Alliance Release New Online Oil & Gas Threat Map; Find Natural Gas Facilities, Wells Near You
*  [5/23/2022] Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds June 2 Hearing On Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Infrastructure In Allegheny County
*  [5/16/2022] Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads
*  [5/16/2022] Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest
*  [5/9/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Dispose Of Drill Cuttings By ‘Dusting’ - Blowing Them On The Ground, And In The Air Around Drill Sites
*  [5/9/2022] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 18 To Hear Presentation On DEP’s Expanded Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Latest Penn State Report On Environmental Impact Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater Will Have ‘Immediate,’ ‘Large,’ ‘Intense’ Impact In PA, Nationally
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Draft Updates Coming To Regs. On Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Disposal As Early As July; Waste Reporting Changes Invited
*  [5/2/2022] Financial Assurance, Plugging Regulations To Be Reviewed To Prevent New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Plugging Program
*  [5/2/2022] DEP: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Prompting Review Of On-Site Disposal Options For Oil & Gas Well Plugging Wastes; Radioactive Waste Disposal
*  [5/2/2022] DEP Not Seeing Uptick In Oil & Gas Drilling; Expects $8 Million Deficit In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
*  [4/25/2022] Attorney General’s Office Reported To Be Investigating Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Illegally Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater
*  [4/25/2022] Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Continued To Illegally Road Dump Over 580,000 Gallons Of Drilling Wastewater In 2021
*  [4/18/2022] DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Has Spill Reporting, Funding For Well Plugging; Permit Fees; Carbon Capture; New Regs On April 25 Agenda
*  [4/18/2022] UPDATED with Agenda/Location/Remote Access: DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets April 21 On Conventional Drilling Issues
*  [4/18/2022] Environmental Health News: Public Health In PA Ignored During Fracking Rush - Report
*  [3/28/2022] AG Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Pike County Man For Illegally Disposing Of At Least 60 Tons Of Sewage Sludge Waste
*  [2/28/2022] DEP OKs Coal Ash Use For Structural Fill To Build Data Mining Operation At Coal Waste-Fired Scrubgrass Power Plant In Venango County
*  [1/31/2022] DCNR Bans Use Of Oil & Gas Wastewater On Its Over 6,500 Miles Of Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads
*  [1/17/2022] DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
*  [1/17/2022] 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
*  [1/17/2022] 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
*  [1/17/2022] EPA: West Penn Power To Pay $610,000 Penalty In Federal-State Settlement Over Coal Ash Landfills Discharge Violations In Allegheny, Washington Counties
*  [1/10/2022] DEP Draft Rule Does Not Ban Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Industry Objects To Waste Reporting Provisions
*  [1/10/2022] Sign Better Path Coalition Petition: DEP - Keep ALL Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Our Roads!
*  [1/10/2022] Better Path Coalition Presents Jan. 12 Webinar On Road Spreading Drilling Wastewater, Why Hasn't It Stopped?
*  [1/3/2022] 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
*  [12/20/2021] Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations
*  [12/20/2021] 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
*  [12/13/2021] DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. 16 On Road Spreading Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Other Issues
*  [12/13/2021] 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
*  [11/22/2021] 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
*  [11/22/2021] Preliminary Results From New Penn State Study Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children
*  [11/22/2021] New Pitt-Duquesne Study Shows Higher Exposures To Radiation In Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater When Appropriate Exposure Scenarios Are Used
*  [11/22/2021] Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, FracTracker Alliance Call On Citizens To Report Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads
*  [11/22/2021] Trout Unlimited: What Do Pennsylvania's Dirt And Gravel Roads Have To Do With Trout?
*  [11/22/2021] 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
*  [11/22/2021] DRBC Extends Comment Period On Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From Fracking Operations & Ban On Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products
*  [11/15/2021] Bay Journal: Dirt Roads & Drilling Wastewater - Dustup Rises Over Health Issues
*  [11/8/2021] 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
*  [11/1/2021] 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
*  [10/11/2021] 17 Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Operators Under Review By DEP To Determine If They Comply With Program Allowing Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
*  [10/11/2021] DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites
*  [9/13/2021] 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
*  [9/6/2021] DEP Approves Methods For Land Application Of Food Processing Residual Waste From Clinton County Meat Processor
*  [3/8/2021] Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper, Talen Energy Agreement To Close Montour Power Plant Coal Ash Disposal Site, Donate 805 Acres, $1.2 Million For Conservation Efforts
*  [12/23/2019] Covanta Environmental Solutions, LLC Pays DEP $400,000 Penalty To Resolve Waste Violations In Lawrence County
*  [11/4/2019] 100 Groups, Companies, 1,000 Citizens To Legislators, Wolf: Oppose SB 790 Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
*  [11/4/2019] Lackawanna County Company Pays DEP $75,000 Penalty For Environmental Violations
*  [11/4/2019] DEP Publishes Final Management Of Fill Technical Guidance
*  [10/28/2019] Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater 26-23 Without Debate
*  [10/21/2019] DEP Posts Updates To Radiation Monitoring Requirements For Oil & Gas Operations For Comment
*  [9/30/2019] Penn State Study Recommends Only Using Nontoxic Products Or Highly Treated Drilling Wastewater To Remove Radium, Oil, Metals Before Road Spreading
*  [5/20/2019] New Study Tracks Liquid, Solid Waste From Conventional, Unconventional Oil & Gas Development In PA From Generation To Disposal
*  [11/12/2018] DEP Invites Comments On Revised Management Of Fill Policy
*  [7/2/2018] Senate Republican Policy Committee Holds July 9 Hearing On Clean Fill, Abandoned Quarries In Northampton County
*  [7/2/2018] June Environmental Synopsis Now Available From Joint Conservation Committee