 [12/2/2024]
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Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties
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[12/2/2024]
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DEP Determines Rulemaking Petition Submitted By Environmental, Health Groups To Adopt More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Is An Action The Environmental Quality Board Has Statutory Authority To Take
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[12/2/2024]
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DEP Discovers Evidence Of Continuous Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Release At McKean County Well Site During Routine Inspection
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[12/2/2024]
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CNX Gas Company Reports It Did Not Stop Pumping Shale Gas Wastewater Through A Punctured Pipeline For 24+ Hours During An Incident In Morris Township, Greene County In May
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[12/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 23 to 29 - 3 Wastewater Pipeline Releases; More Abandoned Shale Gas, Conventional Wells; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
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[12/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 30
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[12/2/2024]
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Public Citizen: LNG Gas Exports Could Cost Pennsylvanians Up To $16 Billion More In Energy Costs
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[12/2/2024]
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PUC Encourages Consumers To Prepare For Dec. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Decrease To 31.2% Increase
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[12/2/2024]
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PUC Invites Stakeholder Comments On The Issue Of The Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania
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[11/25/2024]
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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Lands
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[11/25/2024]
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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations
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[11/25/2024]
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DEP So Far In 2024: 6,907 Violations Issued To Owners Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - 153% More Than In 2021; 833 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells -- Exceeding All Of 2023
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[11/25/2024]
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Oil & Gas Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Injection Well In Warren County Went Unreported For 109 Days; More Contamination Discovered Along Related Wastewater Pipeline Route
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[11/25/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 16 to 22 - $5.257 Million In Penalties; Conventional Well Owners Issued More Violations Than All Of 2023; More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Shale Gas Reports
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[11/25/2024]
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DEP Prints Corrected Notice Inviting Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022
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[11/25/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 23
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[11/25/2024]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Emissions Reduction; Federal Plugging Program; Injection Well Primacy; Financial Assurance; Drilling & Permitting Activity Impacts On DEP Budget
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[11/25/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 12 On New Fee Schedule; Water Withdrawals, Including 4 Shale Gas; New General Permit For Into-Basin Diversions
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[11/25/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 42 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In October; 274 General Permits So Far In 2024
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[11/25/2024]
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PUC To Host Nov. 25 Technical Conference On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania
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[11/18/2024]
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Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania
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[11/18/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Issues Temporary Supersedeas To Stop The Opening Of Catalyst Energy, Inc. Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas
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[11/18/2024]
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FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec. 4
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[11/18/2024]
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Moms Clean Air Force: Pennsylvanians Call On State Leaders For Protection From Fossil Fuel And Plastic Industry Expansion
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[11/18/2024]
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Guest Essay: Our Children’s Health Isn’t Partisan, Pennsylvania Needs Strong Pollution Protections From Fracking Now
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[11/18/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 9 to 15 - Failed Well Pluggings; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells; More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[11/18/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 16
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[11/18/2024]
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Low Streamflow Conditions Prompt Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Advise Shale Gas Drillers, Water Systems, Companies With Water Withdrawal Approvals To Plan For Alternative Operations
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[11/18/2024]
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DEP Will No Longer Accept New Chapter 102 Erosion & Sedimentation ePermit Applications During ‘Pause’; Oil & Gas E&S Applications Not Affected
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[11/18/2024]
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DEP Extends General Permits: Oil & Gas Erosion & Sedimentation [ESCGP-3]; Beneficial Use Of Biosolids By Land Application [PAG-07 + PAG-08]; Beneficial Use Of Residential Septage [PAG-09]
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[11/18/2024]
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Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp: Natural Gas Electric Generation Is Threatened This Winter By Ongoing Concerns About Gas Production, Delivery In Extreme Weather Conditions
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[11/18/2024]
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The Feds - New Administration
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[11/11/2024]
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Cecil Township Supervisors In Washington County Adopt 2,500 Setback From Shale Gas Well Pads From Homes, Businesses, 5,000 Foot Setback From Hospitals, Schools
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[11/11/2024]
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PA Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Punish Local Elected Officials Who Want To Protect Their Constituents From The Documented Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Development
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[11/11/2024]
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Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County
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[11/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 2 to 8 - 8,800 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; Failure To Comply With Plugging Order; Spills, Releases, Gas Leaks
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[11/11/2024]
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66 Water Withdrawals Now Restricted In Susquehanna River Basin Due To Low-Flow Water Conditions, Most Shale Gas-related
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[11/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 9
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[11/11/2024]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 25 Webinar On Private Water Supply Testing, Education; Helpful To Those In Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Which May Impact Water Wells
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[11/11/2024]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Dec. 12 Learn How To Effectively Advocate For Change Workshop In Washington County
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[11/4/2024]
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Low-Flow Water Conditions Trigger Big Jump In Susquehanna River Basin Water Withdrawal Restrictions, Most Shale Gas-related
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[11/4/2024]
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DEP Discovers Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Warren County During Routine Inspection
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[11/4/2024]
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Bradford Era: 7-Part Series Details Concerns Residents Of Cyclone, McKean County Have With Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well
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[11/4/2024]
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PUC Approves Emergency Order Appointing Aqua Pennsylvania Temporary Operator For 6 Rhodes Estate Water Companies As Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County
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[11/4/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[11/4/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On New Air Pollution Permit For Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant In Washington County; Plant Suffered Major Explosion, Fire In 2022
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[11/4/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 2
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[11/4/2024]
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Joint Meeting Of DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Nov. 12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs
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[10/28/2024]
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Widener Law Emeritus Professor John Dernbach Receives American Bar Association Distinguished Achievement Award In Environmental Law And Policy
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[10/28/2024]
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Dr. Susan L. Brantley Named A Distinguished Daughter Of Pennsylvania For Her Research On Water, Geology And The Environmental Impacts Of Natural Gas, Oil Extraction
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[10/28/2024]
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Environmental, Health Groups Submit Petition To Environmental Quality Board For More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells For Schools, Daycares, Hospitals, Buildings, Drinking Water Wells, Surface Water
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[10/28/2024]
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DEP Plugs Conventional Gas Well Orphaned By The Well Owner That Contaminated A Clarion County Family's Drinking Water Well; Conventional Well Owners Continue To Abandoned Their Wells - 814 Violations So Far In 2024 - 2 New Plugging Grant Programs
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[10/28/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 19 to 25 - DEP Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Top 814; Conventional Owner Ignores Order; Gas Leaks & Spills
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[10/28/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26
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[10/28/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 20 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In September; 232 General Permits So Far In 2024
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[10/28/2024]
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Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget
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[10/28/2024]
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EDF: New Report Shows 22% Growth In PA's Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Mitigation Industry In 3 Years
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[10/28/2024]
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DEP Extends Air Quality Permits For Temporary Operation Of Shell Petrochemical Plant; No Schedule Posted Yet For Considering Full Title V Air Quality Permit
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[10/28/2024]
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PJM CEO Expresses Concern About Electric Generating Capacity: Higher Prices Have Incentivized Some Generators, But Building Gas Generators Has Slowed, Permitting, Supply Chain Issues Hamper Renewables
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[10/28/2024]
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Educators Invited To Southwest PA Environmental Literacy Coalition Online Meetings Dec. 12, Feb. 19, April 25
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[10/28/2024]
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Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania
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[10/21/2024]
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Ohio River Valley Institute: Pennsylvania Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Regulations On Fracking, New Poll Finds
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[10/21/2024]
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Saint Vincent College Study Finds Counties With Shale Gas Fracking Wells Using Chemicals That Target Certain Hormones Have Greater Incidence Of Pre-Term Births, Low Birth Weights
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[10/21/2024]
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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions
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[10/21/2024]
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Observer-Reporter Letter: There’s Another Side To The 'Shale Gas Revolution'
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[10/21/2024]
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Beaver County Residents Invited To Join An Oct. 23 In-Person Tour Of Shale Gas Fracking Sites & Infrastructure In Washington County And Discover Its Costs
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[10/21/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 5 to 18 - Conventional Well Owners Issued 767 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells - So Far, More Than Double Number In 2019; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
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[10/21/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC Judge Issues Emergency Order Appointing Aqua Pennsylvania As Temporary Operator For 6 Rhodes Estate Water Companies [Serious Community Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Spill In Venango County]
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[10/21/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 9 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[10/21/2024]
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DEP Begins Accepting Applications For New Methane Reduction Grants To Plug Conventional Oil, Gas Wells Oct. 16
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[10/21/2024]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov. Shapiro, DEP In Support Of Strong Oil & Gas Industry Methane Emission Controls
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[10/21/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 19
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[10/21/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 12
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[10/21/2024]
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Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Receives Grant To Strengthen Communications and Community Engagement Initiatives
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[10/21/2024]
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EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited
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[10/21/2024]
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Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Urges EPA To Move Forward With Strong Regulation Of Vinyl Chloride Under Federal Toxic Substances Control Act, While Calling For A Ban
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[10/21/2024]
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PJM Interconnection Winter Outlook: Adequate Power Supplies Available Under Normal Conditions; PJM Delays Next Power Auction After Prices Spike
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[10/21/2024]
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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas
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[10/7/2024]
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DEP Begins Accepting Grant Applications Oct. 9 To Plug Orphan Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners
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[10/7/2024]
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DEP Advisory Group To Hear How DEP Proposes To Implement New Federal Methane Reduction Rule For Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Wells, Infrastructure Oct. 10
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[10/7/2024]
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State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications From Local Fire, Emergency Services For Training, Equipment To Respond To Shale Gas Infrastructure Fires, Emergencies
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[10/7/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 7 Shale Gas Drillers For Failure To Submit Monthly Waste Generation, Disposal, Production Reports - 1 Company For 3 Years; 2 More Drillers Fail To Disclose Fracking Chemicals
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[10/7/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 - Five More Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations; Failure To Disclose Fracking Chemicals; Failure To Report Waste Generation & Disposal; Lawnmower Causes Conventional Pipeline Gas Leak
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[10/7/2024]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development
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[10/7/2024]
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No Decision Posted Yet From DEP On Whether Flare Gas Chemical Makeup, Volume At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Is Confidential Business Information
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[10/7/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 5
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[10/7/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Oct. 30 Hearing On The Proposed 2025 Fee Schedule; Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 4 Supporting Shale Gas Development
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[10/7/2024]
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Sen. Yaw Introduces Bill To Prohibit State Government From Owning Any Clean Energy Credits; Would Force The Use Of More Taxpayer Money To Plug Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned By Conventional Well Owners
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[10/7/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 8 On Hydrogen Hubs, Data Centers, Food Processing Residuals, PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Regulation
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[10/7/2024]
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Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Receives $75,000 West Penn Energy Fund Grant For Solar Energy Array; Will Save $2 Million Over 25 Years; Power Renewable Gas Facility
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[10/7/2024]
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House Environmental Committee Moves Solar Energy Facility Decommissioning Best Practices; Food Processing Waste Bills
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[10/7/2024]
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PennFuture: Lawmakers Move Bill To Require Clean Solar Energy Facilities To Have Bonds; But Fail To Have Adequate Plugging Bonds For Dirty Oil & Gas Wells Leaving Taxpayers To Pick Up The Cost
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[10/7/2024]
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No False Solutions PA Coalition: 2nd Carbon Dioxide Leak Reported At ADM Carbon Capture Plant In Illinois, Delay In Notifying Public Should Give PA Pause On Carbon Capture Storage
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[9/30/2024]
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Physicians For Social Responsibility PA’s Dr. Ned Ketyer Shares Summary Of Studies Of Shale Gas Development Impacts On Human Health
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[9/30/2024]
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US DOE: China Is Biggest Destination For US LNG Gas Exports; PA Shale Gas Industry Says We Have ‘Duty’ To Export Gas To China, Our Military, Economic Competitor
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[9/30/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 3 Shale Gas Drillers For Failing To Report Fracking Chemicals, Including At EQT’s Lumber Well Pad In Greene County
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[9/30/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 21 to 27 - Gas Storage Areas Wells Leaking; Failure To Comply With Orders, Failure To Report Fracking Chemicals; Bubbling Conventional Pipeline Leak
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[9/30/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 28
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[9/30/2024]
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Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community, Partners Release New Disability-Centered Guidance For Transportation Accidents, Petrochemical Plant Spills, Releases
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[9/30/2024]
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PUC: No Evidence Allegheny County Home Explosion Where 2 Died Related To Columbia Gas Facilities
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[9/23/2024]
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Cecil Township, Washington County Posts Proposed Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads Of 2,500 Feet From Homes, Businesses; 5,000 Feet From Schools, Hospitals; Nov. 4 Hearing, Meeting Set
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[9/23/2024]
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Environmental Health Project: State Dept. Of Health Progress On Implementing Recommendations After Pitt Health Studies Show Impacts From Shale Gas Development ‘Extremely Limited’
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[9/23/2024]
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Del-Chesco United For Pipeline Safety: Texas Explosion Shows Communities In PA With Energy Transfer's Mariner East Pipeline And Other Pipelines Are Vulnerable To The Same Unmitigated Risk From Unsecured Pipeline Valves
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[9/23/2024]
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Exploding Water Well Shed Triggers DEP Investigation Of 59+ Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Cyclone, McKean County; Highlights Limits On Providing Temporary Water For Well Owners Impacted
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[9/23/2024]
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Homeowner Complaint Results In DEP Emergency Plugging Of A Penn Resources, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Leaking Gas, Oil, Wastewater In McKean County
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[9/23/2024]
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DEP Discovers Wastewater Spill From Conventional Oil/Gas Well That Could Be Seen From Google Earth In Armstrong County As A Result Of A Complaint
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[9/23/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 14 to 20 - Seeing Conventional Wastewater Spill From Google Earth; Emergency Well Plugging; Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Leaking Gas Well Next To Baseball Field
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[9/23/2024]
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Protect PT: Westmoreland Landfill Surrenders Air Quality Permit For An Evaporator System To Dispose Of Leachate Wastewater Impacted By Shale Gas Drilling Waste
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[9/23/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 21
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[9/23/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 24 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In August; 212 General Permits So Far In 2024
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[9/23/2024]
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Allegheny Institute For Public Policy: Counties, Municipalities Need To ‘Begin Lowering Their Expectations’ On The Support From Shale Gas Industry Drilling Impact Fee
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[9/23/2024]
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Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp Sounds Alarm Over Maintaining Sufficient Winter Natural Gas Supplies To Address Extreme Winter Conditions; PA Gas Producers Cutting Production, Pulling Drill Rigs
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[9/23/2024]
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No False Solutions PA Coalition Releases New Too Infrequently Asked Questions About Carbon Capture And Storage
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[9/23/2024]
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Master Watershed Stewards Continue Great Partnership With Dickinson’s ALLARM Stream Team Water Monitoring Program
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[9/23/2024]
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Call For Presentations! Bucknell University 2024 River Symposium Nov. 8-9
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[9/23/2024]
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Southwestern PA Water Network Hosts Sept. 28 Confluence At Mingo Creek - A Celebration Of Watersheds In PA's Ohio River Watershed
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[9/16/2024]
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Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov. 4
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[9/16/2024]
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WESA: New Freeport, Greene County Residents File Lawsuit Against EQT Gas Drilling Company Over Contaminated Water Supplies
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[9/16/2024]
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Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Finds Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Sprayed & Leaked 12,600+ Gallons For Nearly 3 Hours In Gilmore Twp., Greene County
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Reports Subsurface Release Of An Estimated 1,000 Gallons Of Wastewater At Hebron Gas Storage Field Conventional Well In Hebron Twp., Potter County; Water Supplies Impacted, Report Well Problems To DEP Near This Facility
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To Apex Energy (PA) LLC For Failure To Submit List Of Fracking Chemicals For 37 Shale Gas Wells Over 6 Years In Westmoreland County
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[9/16/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 7 to 13 - 12,600+ Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Release; 1,000 Gallon+ Subsurface Conventional Wastewater Spill; 28+ Abandoned Wells; Stray Gas Investigation In Elk Viewing Area
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Declares 21 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Owned By Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. Abandoned, Not Plugged In Erie, McKean Counties
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[9/16/2024]
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Senate Hearing: Landowner Concerns About Liability For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells May Be Impediment To Plugging Leaking Wells; Need To Make Plugging Programs More Effective To Deal With ‘Growing Problem’
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[9/16/2024]
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Groundbreaking Initiative Using Drones To Locate Orphan, Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania Kicks Off
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[9/16/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 14
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[9/16/2024]
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House Committee Sets Sept. 17 Hearing On PA One Call Underground Utility Notification Program Reauthorization; Almost All Conventional Gas/Oil Pipelines Specifically Excluded
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[9/16/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 7 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[9/16/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests - Including 8 For Shale Gas Development; Total Of 23 In 2024
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[9/16/2024]
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Ohio River Valley Institute: $55 Million Federally-Funded Tenaska Carbon Geologic Sequestration Project Expected To Permanently Employ 4 People, According To A WV University Study
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[9/9/2024]
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Abandoned Well Citizen Expert Laurie Barr, University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Jennifer Wilcox Recognized On The Grist 50 List
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[9/9/2024]
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Sen. Comitta: New PUC Pipeline Safety Regulations To Be Published As Final This Month For Public Utility Hazardous Liquid Pipelines
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[9/9/2024]
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Environmental Health Project: CNX Resources Claims Shale Gas Drilling Poses No Public Health Risks Are ‘Misleading, Irresponsible, Dangerous’
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[9/9/2024]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept. 24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure
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[9/9/2024]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 2nd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped To Lowest Level Since 2020; Number Of PA Drilling Rigs Drop By Nearly 25% In 2 Weeks As A Result Of Drillers Trying To Raise The Price Of Gas
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[9/9/2024]
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US Dept. Of Interior Approves $76.4 Million To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania; 1,234 Violations For Abandoning Conventional Wells In Last 20 Months
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[9/9/2024]
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Environmental Defense Fund, Moms Clean Air Force To Hold Public Meetings In 3 Northwest PA Counties On A Project To Test New Methods Of Locating Abandoned Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
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[9/9/2024]
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Source Of 19-Day-Old Oil Discharge Into Allegheny River In Venango County Still A Mystery; Recreators Asked To Avoid The Area
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[9/9/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 - Mystery Oil Leak Into Allegheny River; Holes In Shale Gas Casing; 65 Days Late In Plugging Conventional Well
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[9/9/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 7
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[9/9/2024]
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PUC Invites Comments On Accelerated Removal, Replacement Of Older Plastic Pipe In Natural Gas Distribution Systems
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[9/9/2024]
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Center for Coalfield Justice Blog: Update On Underground Longwall Coal Mining In Greene, Washington Counties; Next DEP Report On Longwall Impacts Due… Soon
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[9/2/2024]
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Sept. 19 Webinar: A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From Natural Gas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies?
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[9/2/2024]
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DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Strategies To Prevent Well Abandonments; Injection Well Primacy; Tracking Water Contamination; Other Topics
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[9/2/2024]
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State, United Mine Workers Announce First-In-PA Registered Apprenticeship Program To Plug Oil And Gas Wells Abandoned By Conventional Well Owners; DEP Issued 722 Violations For Well Abandonment So Far In 2024
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[9/2/2024]
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Range Resources Shale Gas Water Pipeline Suffers Blowout In Washington County
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[9/2/2024]
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9-Year-Old Drives Tractor Into Conventional Well Causing Gas Leak
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[9/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 24 to 30 - Water Pipeline Blowout; 9-Year-Old Hits Conventional Gas Well; 5 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells
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[9/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 31
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[9/2/2024]
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Appalachian Regional Commission Selects Job Training, Revitalization Groups For Communities Impacted By Coal, Power Plant Closures; Underserved, Marginalized Communities; 5 In PA Serving Coal, Oil & Gas Counties
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[9/2/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Sept. 10 On Hydrogen, Food Processing Residuals
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[9/2/2024]
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Pittsburgh Works Together Releases New Report: The PJM Grid In Peril: What Will Keep The Lights On?
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[9/2/2024]
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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bills To Establish PA Baseload Energy Development Fund Based On Texas Model; And Have One Permit For Power Plants
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[9/2/2024]
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Washington & Jefferson College To Host Pittsburgh Regional Carbon Capture Conference Oct. 22 In Washington County
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[9/2/2024]
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Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Hosts Sept. 12 In-Person, Online Connecting Communities In The Fight Against Industrial Pollution
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[8/26/2024]
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Eureka Resources Shuts Down Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility; DEP Wastewater, Waste Violations Continue From Feb. 2023
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[8/26/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Eureka Resources Plans To Close/Sell 2 Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants In Williamsport: Not Enough Wastewater Volume To Keep Plants Open
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[8/26/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 17 to 23 - Failure Of Casing During Fracking; 46 Day Delay In Water Compliant Notice; Closing 3 Wastewater Treatment Facilities; 40 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[8/26/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 24
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[8/26/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 33 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In July; 188 General Permits So Far In 2024
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[8/26/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Sept. 12 On Water Withdrawal Requests - Including 8 Shale Gas Development, Gas Power Plant; Budget; Procurement Regulations
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[8/26/2024]
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DEP Designates Renewal Of Marcus Hook Terminal Air Quality Permit Subject To Environmental Justice Enhanced Public Participation; Stormwater Permit Also Pending
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[8/26/2024]
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Southwestern PA Water Network To Host Confluence At Mingo Creek - A Celebration Of Watersheds Sept. 28 In Washington County
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[8/26/2024]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Sept. 11 Webinar On Corrosive Water Issues
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[8/19/2024]
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Attorney General Henry Announces Greylock Shale Gas Driller Will Pay $140,000, Plead No Contest To Multiple Criminal Charges For Environmental Violations In Greene County
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[8/19/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 16 Owners Of 5,374 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells For Failing To Submit Annual Production, Waste Generation/Disposal, Well Integrity Reports
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[8/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 10 to 16 - Failure To File Critical Annual Report Violations Sent To Owners Of 5,300+ Conventional Wells; Failure To Fix Leaking Wells
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[8/19/2024]
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US Dept. Of The Interior Announces Pennsylvania Eligible For Up To $152.6 Million In Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/19/2024]
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DEP To Hold Information Sessions On New Orphan Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Grant Program Aug. 26, 27 & 30
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[8/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 17
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[8/19/2024]
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CNX: 'Natural Gas Development Is Safe And Poses No Public Health Risks,' Based On CNX Air Quality Monitoring From 14 Sites, Most For Just 4 To 24 Weeks
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[8/19/2024]
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Penn State, Shell Petrochemicals, Shell Pipeline Company Announce Collaboration Focused On Energy And Sustainability
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[8/19/2024]
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Briefing By US Dept. Of Energy On Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Previewing Future Engagement Opportunities Featured Comments Expressing Concerns About The Project
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[8/12/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; 700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations
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[8/12/2024]
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Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State
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[8/12/2024]
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Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County
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[8/12/2024]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 20 In-Person Program On Investigations Into Rare Childhood Cancers In Washington County
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[8/12/2024]
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Environmental Health Project Contributes To New Book On Sustainable Development & Rural Public Health - From Fossil Fuels To Greener Futures
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[8/12/2024]
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FracTracker Alliance, Halt The Harm Network Invite Nominations For 2024 Community Sentinel Awards
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[8/12/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 10
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[8/12/2024]
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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Be Able To Keep All The Lights On In Four Years
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[8/5/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To D & B Gas Prod LLC For Abandoning, Not Plugging 110 Conventional Gas, Coalbed Methane Wells In Indiana County; Total Abandonment NOVs 697 In 2024
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[8/5/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 27 to August 2 - 120 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 3rd Pipeline Construction Spill; 1,260 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill
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[8/5/2024]
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PA US Sen. Casey Cosponsors Bill To Find, Clean Up Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Improve Detection, Plugging Tech
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[8/5/2024]
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Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP
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[8/5/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 3
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[8/5/2024]
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AG Henry/Gov. Shapiro: Federal Settlement Over Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Does Not Help Enough Pennsylvanians Impacted By The Incident
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[8/5/2024]
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PJM Electricity Auction Price 9 Times Higher Than Previous Auction-- $269.92/MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor
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[8/5/2024]
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Natural Resources Defense Council: The Cost Of Slow-Walking Clean Energy Can Be Seen In Latest PJM Electricity Prices
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[8/5/2024]
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Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: The High Price Of Failing To Transition To Clean Energy In PJM Footprint; Next PJM Auction Is In December
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[7/29/2024]
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No One Warned A Cameron County Family Their Water Well Was Contaminated By A Seneca Resources Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Rupture
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[7/29/2024]
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Penn State Extension Aug. 21 Webinar - Water Testing Through Penn State's Ag Analytical Lab
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[7/29/2024]
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Learn How You Can Qualify For Free Well Water Testing During Aug. 22 Penn State Extension Webinar
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[7/29/2024]
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Shell Petrochemical Plant Asks DEP To Classify Chemical Makeup, Flow Rate Of Gases Going To Be Burned Off By Flares, Air Pollution Sources, Control Equipment Operating At The Plant Confidential Business Information
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[7/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 20 to 26 - Abandoned Well Violations To Owner Of 727 Conventional Wells ‘Returned To Sender,’ More Wastewater Pipeline Spills; 2nd Attempt To Plug Shale Gas Well
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[7/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 27
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[7/29/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 22 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In June; 155 General Permits In 2024
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[7/29/2024]
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Gov. Shapiro Signs Bipartisan Solar For Schools And Geologic Sequestration Of Carbon Bills Into Law
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[7/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 13 to 19 - Pipeline Construction Spill; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
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[7/22/2024]
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PUC Investigation Concludes No Evidence 2023 Plum Boro Home Natural Gas Explosion In Allegheny County Caused By Gas Utility Equipment
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[7/22/2024]
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The Derrick: Are Rate Increases In The Future For Rhodes Estate Water Companies In Venango County? [Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Contamination Of Water Supply]
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[7/22/2024]
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DEP Sets Aug. 21 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Equitrans LP Compressor Station In Union Twp., Washington County
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[7/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 20
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[7/22/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Aug. 1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests For Amazon Data Center, Luzerne County; 8 Shale Gas Development, Gas Power Plant Withdrawals
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[7/22/2024]
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Fayette County Republican Rep. Krupa Will Keep Fighting Carbon Capture, Other Environmental Injustices
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[7/22/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts Aug. 1 Training Session On Using Its App To Report Problems At Oil & Gas Infrastructure Sites
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[7/15/2024]
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House, Senate Send Bill Authorizing Geologic Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide To The Governor
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[7/15/2024]
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Federal Court Again Says Groups Have A Right To Appeal Permits For Gas Pipelines To State Environmental Hearing Board, Overruling Transco, DEP Objections
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[7/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 6 to 12 - Double Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Failure; 19 + 12 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Draining Water Impoundment By Spraying
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[7/15/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Water Encroachment Permit For A Beech Resources, LLC Project To Construct 3 Pipelines On A Right-of-Way Impacting An Exceptional Value Stream, EV Wetlands In Lycoming County
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[7/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 13
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[7/15/2024]
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State Health Plan Identified Oil & Gas Development As Health Risk Last Year; Environmental Health Indicators Map Is Now Available To Show Potential Risks Near You
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[7/15/2024]
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PUC's Pipeline Safety Program Recognized For Exemplary Standards & Impact On Residents, Businesses; State Agencies Lack Authority To Act On Pipeline Issues
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[7/15/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC To Hold Second Hearing July 15 On Venango Water Company [Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Contamination Of Water Supply]
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[7/15/2024]
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Now On Demand: PublicSource.org - Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia
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[7/8/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Carbon Sequestration-Hydrogen Hub Pipelines; Critical/Rare Earth Mineral Recycling At July 9 Meeting
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[7/8/2024]
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Federal Judge Halts Biden’s Pause On New LNG Gas Export Facility Permits; EQT, PA Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Plan To Ship PA Gas To China To Support Its Economy
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[7/8/2024]
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PublicSource.org: July 9 Learn The Story Behind The Story - EQT's Gas Play In Pennsylvania, West Virginia
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[7/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 29 to July 5 - Lots Of Conventional Wells Venting Gas; 12 + 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[7/8/2024]
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DEP Issues Air Quality Permit For Frontier LNG Gas Facility In Clinton County
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[7/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - July 6
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[7/8/2024]
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DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Application Complete, Now Posted On DEP's Website; Comment Period Opening Soon
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[7/8/2024]
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DEP Approves Final Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Shell Petrochemical Plant Site In Beaver County
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[7/1/2024]
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House Committee Told Governor’s Energy Plan Diversifies Energy Generation, Avoids One-Fuel Dependence, Improves Grid Reliability, Lowers Consumer Costs, Generates Jobs; Or Upends Competitive Markets And Is A ‘Death Wish’ For Our Economy
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[7/1/2024]
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Sen. Camera Bartolotta: PA Should Be Producing 4 Times The Gas We Are Now, Exporting It Around The World: ‘We Just Need To Get Government The Hell Out Of The Way’
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[7/1/2024]
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Independent Fiscal Office Projects Another Drop In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue In 2024 By As Much As $114 Million From 2022
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[7/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 22 to 28 - 12 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Soliciting Bids For Plugging 20 Conventional, Abandoned Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Pennzoil In The Allegheny National Forest
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[7/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 29
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Revised Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permit (ESCGP-4)
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permits For Installation Of A 5.8 Million Gallon Gasoline/Naphtha Storage Tank At The United Refining Company Refinery In Warren, PA
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[7/1/2024]
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Comments Invited By DEP On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For American Refining Group Facility In Bradford, McKean County
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Operating Permit Application For Administrative Completeness
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[7/1/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawals, Including 7 More For Shale Gas Development In June; Total Of 15 In 2024
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[7/1/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved, Renewed 33 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In May; 133 General Permits In 2024
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[7/1/2024]
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US Dept. Of Energy Awards Funding For Projects Repurposing Existing Energy Facilities, Including 4 In PA Promoting Reuse Of Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Mine Pools, Abandoned Mine Lands
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[7/1/2024]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts July 17 Meeting In Washington County On How To Protect Your Families' Health Living Near Shale Gas Facilities
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[6/24/2024]
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State Budget: PA Environmental Council Sends Budget, Policy Recommendations To PA House, Senate Members
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[6/24/2024]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Drops $100 Million From Last Year’s Record To $179.6 Million; Puts Hole In State, Local Budgets
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[6/24/2024]
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IRRC Approves Final Revised PUC Regulations Strengthening Rules For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines; Gas Pipelines Fined Over $71 Million, Have Worst Compliance Record Of Any Industry, Including Criminal Charges
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[6/24/2024]
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DEP To Hold July 2 Virtual Hearing On PA General Energy Project To Construct 3.7 Miles Of Shale Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
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[6/24/2024]
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PUC To Hold July 15 Prehearing Conference On Future Of Venango Water Company, Related Companies As Follow-Up To Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County
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[6/24/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 15 to 21 - More Failed Shale Gas Well Plugs; Landslides; Venting Gas; Injection Well Issue?
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[6/24/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 22
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[6/17/2024]
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House Committee Reports Out Bills To Ban Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Prohibit Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals’ In Consumer Products
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Bill Banning Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater, Prohibiting Its Use As Coproduct Under Residual Waste Regulations
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Penn State Expert Says ‘Pennsylvania Should Ban Road Spreading Of Oil & Gas Wastewater;’ Contaminants Exceed Health, Environmental Standards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies Says Road Spreading Oil & Gas Wastewater Is Not An Effective Dust Suppressant, Does Not Meet Environmental Testing Standards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Protect PT - Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater ‘Is Disproportionately Responsible For Negative Impacts On Human Health,’ Especially From Radioactive Radium
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘We Studied This For Nearly 30 Years And The Conclusions Are The Same - The Wastewater Contains Harmful Contaminants’
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: PA State Assn. Of Township Supervisors Opposes Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Saying It’s Only Affordable Option For Dust Suppression [Plain Water Works Just As Well]
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Trade Groups Oppose Bill Banning The Road Dumping Their Wastewater Saying It’s ‘Effective And Safe’
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[6/17/2024]
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PA Environmental Council Supports Bill To Ban Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[6/17/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 8 to 14 - Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Now Top 512, Equaling All Of 2023
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[6/17/2024]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Must Be In Compliance With PA Environmental Laws & Regulations To Be Eligible For New Federally-Funded Well Plugging Grants
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[6/17/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 15
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[6/10/2024]
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House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11
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[6/10/2024]
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Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They Dispose Of Their Waste
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[6/10/2024]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment
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[6/10/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 1 to 7 - 38 Conventional Wells Evaluated For Plugging; Spills; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Failure To Notify DEP Of 121 Conventional Well Owner Transfers
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[6/10/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 8
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[6/10/2024]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports Drop In PA Shale Gas Production From 4th Quarter
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[6/10/2024]
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DCNR To Hold Virtual Town Hall Event June 12 On Draft Plan For The Future of Pennsylvania Forests - Forests for All
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[6/3/2024]
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Week 10: Illegal Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues Unabated On Paved, Dirt Roads, Before It Rains, It Doesn’t Matter In Warren County
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[6/3/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC Judge Orders 7 Rhodes Estate Water Companies To Secure Counsel For Hearings On Their Future [More Fallout From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County]
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[6/3/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 25 to 31 - Shale Wastewater Pipeline Spill; Drill Cuttings Violations; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[6/3/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 1
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[6/3/2024]
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Penn State Research Traced Radioactive Radium In Freshwater Mussels To Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[6/3/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts 4 Virtual Workshops On How To Protect Yourself If You Live Near Shale Gas Facilities Starting June 11
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[6/3/2024]
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Evangelical Environmental Network, Partners Host June 5 Webinar On Pipeline Methane Leaks - Causes, Impacts, Solutions
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[6/3/2024]
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Protect PT Lunch & Learn Online Program - Frac-Enomics, Is It Worth It? Now On Demand
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[6/3/2024]
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Natural Resources Defense Council Releases Recommendations To US DOE On LNG Gas Export Facility Impact Analysis
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[6/3/2024]
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50+ Appalachian Groups Call On US DOE To Suspend ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Project
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[6/3/2024]
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PUC: Prepare For June 1 Electric Price Changes, UGI Electric Only Utility Increasing Rates; Explore Possible Summer Savings
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[6/3/2024]
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Pennsylvania Joins Federal-State Initiative To Make America’s Power Grid More Reliable, Able To Deliver Clean Power At Reduced Cost
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[6/3/2024]
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DEP Extends Temporary Air Quality Permits For Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Shell Said It Will Submit Full Title V Air Permit Application By June 21 Deadline
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[6/3/2024]
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News From PA House & Senate
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[5/27/2024]
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Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities
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[5/27/2024]
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Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility? Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater
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[5/27/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 18 to 24 - 3 Abandoned, Plugged Shale Gas Wells Still Leaking Gas; 480 Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs
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[5/27/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 25
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[5/27/2024]
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DEP Issues Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit To PA Well Development LLC In Young Twp., Jefferson County
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[5/27/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Waste Transfer Permit For 5 Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Bear Lake Properties In Warren County
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[5/27/2024]
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EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit Renewal For Seneca Resources Company, LLC In Elk County
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[5/27/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission June 13 Business Meeting To Consider Water Use Requests Including 7 Shale Gas Drilling Uses In Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[5/27/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 100 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In First 4 Months Of 2024
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[5/27/2024]
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Pennsylvanians Realized $500+ Billion In Public Health Benefits By Eliminating Coal-Fired Power Plants, Switching To Natural Gas
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[5/27/2024]
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Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania
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[5/20/2024]
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DEP Imposed $2.2 Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018
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[5/20/2024]
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Rep. Vitali To Introduce Bill Banning The Disposal Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater By Dumping It On Public Roads; Rep. Causer To Introduce Bill Legalizing It
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[5/20/2024]
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Illegal Wastewater Dumping Continues, Even on Mothers Day, Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners’ Campaign Of Intimidation Of Senate Witness; Now Dumping Before It Rains, On Paved Roads
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[5/20/2024]
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National Energy Technology Lab, University Of Pittsburgh Say Oil & Gas Wastewater Can Be Major Source Of Lithium For Rechargeable Battery Production
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[5/20/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Clears Away More Attempts By Olympus Energy To Block Shale Gas Permit Appeal By Protect PT In Westmoreland County; Olympus Fails To Provide Info On PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Use
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[5/20/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC To Hold May 21 Prehearing On Future Of Venango Water Company; Water Source Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
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[5/20/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 11 to 17; Lots Of Spills Week; 3 More Abandoned Shale Well NOVs; Well Shut In To Prevent Frack-Out
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[5/20/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 18
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[5/20/2024]
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Penn State Extension May 30 Webinar On Landowner Role In Conventional Orphaned, Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells
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[5/20/2024]
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DEP: $5 Million In Grants Recommended To Support Mitigation Projects In Beaver County Related To Shell Petrochemical Plant Environmental Violations + Shell Paid Total Penalties Of $7,606,027.75
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[5/13/2024]
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We’ve Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History
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[5/13/2024]
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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
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[5/13/2024]
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Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice
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[5/13/2024]
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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
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[5/13/2024]
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Hundreds Of Residents Warn Against Impacts Of Shale Gas Development In Cecil Township, Washington County
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[5/13/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 4 to 10 - 32 More Abandoned Conventional Well Violations; Failure To Cleanup Spills; Failure To Get Permits
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[5/13/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 11
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[5/13/2024]
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PUC Approves Settlement In Peoples Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Failure That Damaged Hundreds Of Furnaces, Water Heaters
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[5/13/2024]
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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill To Punish Counties That Seek To Protect Their Residents From Impacts Of Natural Gas Thru Lawsuits
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[5/13/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments, Sets Hearings On Air Quality Permits For 3 Power Plants-- Clearfield County- Shawville; Montour County- Montour; Venango County- Scrubgrass
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[5/13/2024]
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PJM Interconnection: Concerns Remain On Grid Reliability With Final EPA Rule Setting Tougher Air Pollution Standards On New Gas, Existing Coal-fired Power Plants
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[5/6/2024]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host May 29 Webinar On Understanding Gov. Shapiro's New Energy/Climate Plans
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[5/6/2024]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Says It’s A ‘Terrific Lie’ To Say It Is Responsible For Abandoning Thousands Of Wells; Industry To Change Definition So They Can Avoid Responsibility
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[5/6/2024]
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EDF: US House Passes Bill To Locate Orphaned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells, Improve Well Plugging Technology
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[5/6/2024]
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The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry
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[5/6/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 27 to May 3 - Hunting Abandoned Quaker State Wells; Conventional Well Dumpster Fire; Multiple Water Withdrawal Violations
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[5/6/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 4
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[5/6/2024]
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Senate Republicans Pass Bill Authorizing An Authority To Take Over Permitting Large-Scale Energy Projects; Eliminating Public Comment; Waiving Any Regulation; Providing Immunity From Prosecution; Barbers Reviewing Permits?
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[5/6/2024]
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Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy
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[5/6/2024]
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PJM Interconnection Anticipates Adequate Electric Generation Resources To Meet Summer Demand Under 'Anticipated Conditions'
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[4/29/2024]
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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
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[4/29/2024]
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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
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[4/29/2024]
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Clean Air Council/Sierra Club: PA Falling Behind In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding; Burden Falls On Taxpayers
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[4/29/2024]
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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
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[4/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 27
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[4/22/2024]
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Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution
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[4/22/2024]
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Senate Hearing: The Case For An Immediate, Total Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[4/22/2024]
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Senate Hearing: Penn State Expert: ‘No More Research That Needs To Be Done’ To Justify A Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[4/22/2024]
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Senate Hearing: First-Hand Account Of Health, Environmental Impacts From Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater 24-Hours A Day’
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[4/22/2024]
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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
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[4/22/2024]
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Senate Hearing: DEP Still Evaluating The Data On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Asks Public To Report Road Dumping
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[4/22/2024]
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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
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[4/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 13 to 19 - Oil & Gas Well Owners Actively, Repeatedly Ignoring DEP Notices Of Violation; 12 Abandoned Wells
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[4/22/2024]
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Commonwealth Court Affirms EHB Ruling Sen. Muth Lacks Standing To Appeal A DEP Permit For Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility
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[4/22/2024]
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Protect PT Hosting April 30 Webinar On How Your Municipality Can Protect Itself From The Dangers Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
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[4/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 20
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[4/22/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds May 2 Hearing On Water Use Requests, Including 7 Shale Gas Drilling Uses In Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[4/22/2024]
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PA Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Doubles-Down On Support For Exporting PA Natural Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor
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[4/22/2024]
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Guest Essay: Claims That Only Thermal Energy Resources Can Ensure Electric Grid Reliability Don’t Pass The Laugh Test
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[4/22/2024]
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CFA Accepting Applications For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants
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[4/22/2024]
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Registration Open! Pennsylvania Groundwater Symposium, May 23 In Harrisburg
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[4/15/2024]
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Act 14: Little Known State Law Gives Municipalities, Counties First Chance To Comment On DEP Permits Before Applications Are Submitted; Critical First Step In Public Involvement
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[4/15/2024]
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DEP Issues $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County
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[4/15/2024]
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Westmoreland County-Based Protect PT Calls For Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; CAC Member Asks For DEP Response
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[4/15/2024]
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The Derrick: State Intervenes In Venango Water Case [Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill]
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[4/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 6 to 12 - Rain Causes Multiple Landslides; Ignored Request To Clean Up Spill; Venting Gas
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[4/15/2024]
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New Penn State Study Shows Continuous Radioactive Radium Exposure From Oil & Gas Wastewater Poses A Threat To Aquatic, Human Health As It Accumulates In Aquatic Species
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[4/15/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Allows 2nd Appeal Of Tri-County Landfill Permit To Move Forward Over Threats Posed By Birds, Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste
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[4/15/2024]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts April 19 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Justin Nobel On His New Book About Radioactive Waste From The Oil & Gas Industry
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[4/15/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Double 24-Inch, 14 Mile Long Gas Pipelines In Westmoreland County
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[4/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 13
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[4/15/2024]
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CNX Completing $20 Million Fresh Water Pipeline To Serve Future Shale Gas Drilling, And Potentially Local Communities As An Alternative To The Westmoreland Municipal Authority
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[4/15/2024]
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CNX Expands Air Pollution Monitoring To More Shale Gas Well Pads, Compressor Stations Under The Collaborative Agreement With State
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[4/15/2024]
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Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Official Joins Pittsburgh-based EQT In Saying We Have A 'Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor
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[4/8/2024]
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Spotlight PA: Little Information Made Public About Free Water Testing Ordered As Part Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Settlement To Criminal Charges By Attorney General
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[4/8/2024]
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Road Dumping Continues At Will As Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
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[4/8/2024]
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DEP Reports Only 1 Shale Gas Well Permit Under Review Drastically Reducing The Revenue Needed To Run Its Entire Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
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[4/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 30 to April 5 - 19 Abandoned Well Violations; Venting Gas; Spills; No Containment; Erosion BMP Failures
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[4/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 6
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[4/8/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets April 9 On ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Proposal; DEP Guidance On Building Pipelines
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[4/1/2024]
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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
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[4/1/2024]
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DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023
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[4/1/2024]
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DEP: 86% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Waste Disposal, Production Reporting For 33,505 Wells In 2023
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[4/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 23 to 29 - Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells, Waste Injection Wells; Failure To Stop Gas Venting
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[4/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 30
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[4/1/2024]
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CFA Awards Over $1 Million In Grants To Extend Natural Gas Service In Susquehanna, Warren Counties
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[4/1/2024]
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Residents Express Concerns At US DOE's Listening Session On ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Proposal In PA, WV, OH
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Reports The Number Of Methane Contaminated Water Supplies From Oil & Gas Drilling Is Up ‘Across The Board,’ ‘Not A Good Trend’
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP: Shale Gas Drilling Resulted In 54 Incidents Of New Wells Interfering With Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Water Wells Or Other Shale Gas Wells In Last 8 Years
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Pursuing Federal Funding To Further Define Human Health Impacts Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[3/25/2024]
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Spring Road Dumping Season Underway As Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Get Rid Of Their Wastewater
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[3/25/2024]
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Fayette County Commissioners Unanimously Pass Ordinance Restricting Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
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[3/25/2024]
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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
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[3/25/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 23
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[3/25/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 8 Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawals, Adopts New General Permit For Cooperative Fish Nurseries
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone
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[3/18/2024]
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Gov. Shapiro Unveils Cap-And-Invest PA Climate Emissions Reduction Initiative To Reduce Carbon Pollution From Power Plants; Update Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards To Diversify Electric Generation, Improve Reliability
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[3/18/2024]
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Gov. Shapiro Joins Industry, Labor, Environmental, Consumer Leaders To Highlight New Energy Plan To Create Jobs, Lower Costs For Pennsylvanians
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[3/18/2024]
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Gov. Shapiro On Republican Reaction To His Energy Plan: They’ve Done Nothing And Power ‘Plants Have Closed On Their Watch;’ They’re ‘Used To Doing Nothing;’ ‘Doing Nothing Is Not Acceptable’
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[3/18/2024]
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Senate Republicans Reject Gov. Shapiro’s Offer To Work On Legislation To Make The Electric Grid More Reliable, Diversify Our Energy Sources, Lower Energy Costs For Ratepayers, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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[3/18/2024]
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Pennsylvania’s Electric Grid Is Dependent On One Fuel To Generate 59% Of Our Electricity; Market Moving To Renewables + Storage
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[3/18/2024]
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US EIA Report Shows How Winter Storms Have Reduced US Natural Gas Production, But Disruptions Can Happen Any Time Of The Year
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[3/18/2024]
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EPA: Pennsylvania One Of 45 States, MSAs To Submit Priority Climate Action Plans As Part Of $5 Billion Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Changes To General Air Quality Permit Authorizing Coal Mine Methane Flares
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[3/18/2024]
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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
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Cites Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators For Abandoning, Not Plugging 140 More Wells Last Week; Total Now 380 Wells This Year
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[3/18/2024]
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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
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To Blackhill Energy, LLC Shale Gas Driller For Contaminating Groundwater, 3 Water Supplies With Methane In Springfield Twp., Bradford County
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[3/18/2024]
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The Derrick: Public Utility Commission Starts Investigation Into Possible Order For Another Utility To Permanently Acquire Venango Water Company Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Spill
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Withdrawing Over 1.8 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission
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[3/18/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 16
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[3/18/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 30 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[3/18/2024]
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Penn State Extension: April 8 Webinar On Private Water Supply Education And Water Testing
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[3/18/2024]
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Clean Air Council, Moms Clean Air Force, Earthworks Host March 20 Webinar On Federal Waste Oil & Gas Emission Charges
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[3/11/2024]
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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
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[3/11/2024]
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DEP Declares 101 Medina Res Dev Co. LLC Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned, Not Plugged In Crawford, Erie Counties
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[3/11/2024]
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New Reporting On The Uncontrolled Impacts Of Shale Gas Industry: The ‘Poisons Are Still Going Through My System;’ Roar, Fire From Gas Flares; Nothing Has Changed In 15 Years
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[3/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 2 to 8 - 119 Conventional Well Abandonment Violations; Pipeline Land Slips; Ignored Orders
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[3/11/2024]
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EPA Region III Issues Formal Notice With Instructions On Appealing Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In Allegheny County
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[3/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 9
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[3/11/2024]
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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
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[3/11/2024]
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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?
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[3/11/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: ‘Selling Oil And Natural Gas To China?’ ‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’
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[3/11/2024]
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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
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[3/4/2024]
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DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform
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[3/4/2024]
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PA Environmental Groups: New PUC Rules, DEP Guidance Victory For Increased Safety In Pipeline Construction And Operation
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[3/4/2024]
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40 Individuals File Appeals, Most Handwritten, Of DEP’s Permit For Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County
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[3/4/2024]
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EPA Appeals Board Allows Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal Of Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In Allegheny County To Move Forward
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[3/4/2024]
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Incomplete Application For CNX Midstream Slickville Fracking Wastewater, Natural Gas Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County Withdrawn By DEP
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[3/4/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 2
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[3/4/2024]
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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
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[3/4/2024]
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DEP: Clay-Like Material Polluting Marsh Creek Is Not Bentonite From Mariner East Pipeline Construction, But Naturally Occuring; Sunoco Cleanup Operation Finished
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[3/4/2024]
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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
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[3/4/2024]
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Chemstream Chemical Maker Agrees To Disclose Information About Its Proprietary Chemicals Used In Natural Gas Drilling
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[3/4/2024]
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Guest Essay: The Conventional Oil And Gas Industry Isn't Taking Responsibility For Their Wells
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[3/4/2024]
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PA Utility Law Project March 15 Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports On Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Families; LNG Export Capacity To Double, Even With Permit Pause
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[3/4/2024]
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Bloomberg: Gov. Shapiro Calls On Biden To Keep Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Short
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[3/4/2024]
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IFO Reports 2023 PA Natural Gas Production Up 1.0% Over 2022, Thanks To Strong Q4 Production; Fewest New Wells Drilled In Last Decade
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[2/26/2024]
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Penn State: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Fails To Meet Beneficial Reuse Recommendations For Use As A Dust Suppressant
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[2/26/2024]
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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
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[2/26/2024]
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PUC Adopts Final Regulations Strengthening Operation, Construction Requirements For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Environmental Consideration In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
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[2/26/2024]
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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
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[2/26/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 24
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[2/26/2024]
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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
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order
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[2/26/2024]
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Western PA Residents Comment After A Year Of Shell Petrochemical Plant Operations
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[2/26/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
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[2/26/2024]
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PJM, Electric Grid Operators Recommend Additional Steps To Overcome Vulnerabilities In Natural Gas Infrastructure To Ensure More Reliable Grid Operation
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP Recommends 6 Major Legislative Proposals Be Adopted As Part Of 2024 PA Climate Action Plan
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[2/26/2024]
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PUC To Seek Comments On Proposed Regulation On Use Of Distributed Energy Resources And Virtual Power Plants
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP: No Applicants Have Asked For Their Money Back Yet Under The PAyback Permit Review Money Back Guarantee Program
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP Set To Receive $2 Billion+ In Federal Funds Over Next Decade+ For Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Clean Energy, Climate Resiliency, Clean Water
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[2/19/2024]
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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
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[2/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints
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[2/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 17
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[2/19/2024]
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DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5 Million Gallon/Day Water Withdrawal For Shale Gas Drilling From Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County
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[2/19/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: National Fuel Gas Lawsuit Alleges Fraud, Counterfeit Parts Used At Natural Gas Compressor Stations
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[2/19/2024]
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Comments Invited On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
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[2/19/2024]
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DEP Sets March 20 Hearing [If Requested] On Air Quality Permit Change For The Eastern Gas Transmission Punxsutawney Compressor Station In Jefferson County
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[2/19/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Project To Expose 4 Natural Gas Pipelines For 5,500+ Feet Ahead Of Longwall Mining In Donegal Twp., Washington County
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[2/19/2024]
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Public Comments Invited On State Air Quality Plan Amendment For PEI Power Corp Natural Gas-fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County
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[2/19/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission March 14 Meeting On Rulemakings, Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit
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[2/19/2024]
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PUC Now Accepting Comments On $250,000 Penalty Settlement With Peoples Gas On Natural Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County
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[2/19/2024]
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PUC Invites Comments On Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Co. Proposal To Construct 2 Solar Energy Facilities To Provide Electricity To Compressor Stations In Columbia, Wyoming Counties
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[2/19/2024]
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Natural Gas Intelligence: 76% Increase In LNG Natural Gas Export Capacity Already Under Construction; US Group Fears Buildout Will Hurt American Businesses Urge ‘US Consumers First’ Policy
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[2/19/2024]
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Bloomberg TV: Canada’s Energy Minister: Period Of Using Natural Gas As Transition Fuel Should Be Short; Gas Should Not Replace Renewables; Canada Has Adopted Controls On LNG Exports The US Has Not
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[2/19/2024]
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Ohio River Basin Alliance, National Wildlife Federation Report Identifies Community Concerns, Priorities For Local Waters In Ohio River Watershed [Road-Dumping Drilling Wastewater]
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[2/19/2024]
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Penn State Extension March 14 Webinar On Oil & Gas Wastewater Management - Project PARETO
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[2/12/2024]
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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
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[2/12/2024]
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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
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[2/12/2024]
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Guest Essay: DEP Ignored Abandoned Wells During Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permitting Process
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[2/12/2024]
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DEP OKs Cameron Energy Applications For Plugging 3 Orphan Conventional Wells Under Blanket Bond Increase Waiver Program; Denied 1 Plugged Well Leaking Crude Oil
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[2/12/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 10
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[2/12/2024]
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PA Utility Law Project, Public Citizen Host Feb. 16 Webinar Exploring The Impact Of LNG Natural Gas Exports On Pennsylvania Families
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[2/12/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Narrows, But Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Shale Gas Well Permit Renewals In Westmoreland County To Move Forward
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[2/12/2024]
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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
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[2/12/2024]
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PJM Reports Natural Gas Power Plants Were Over Half The Forced Outages During Winter Storm Gerri In January; Special Procedures Used For Gas Generators Raised Questions About Market Impacts
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[2/12/2024]
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DEP: Commonwealth Court Issues Order Appointing PA American Water Company Receiver For East Dunkard Water System Authority In Greene County Due To Compliance Issues
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[2/5/2024]
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DEP Issues Equitrans Midstream Violation For Not Plugging 19 Abandoned Conventional Wells At The Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field In Greene County; Conflicts With Coal Mining
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[2/5/2024]
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Protect PT: Commonwealth Court Vacates Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit, Remanding It To Plum Boro For Additional Fact Finding In Allegheny County
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[2/5/2024]
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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
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[2/5/2024]
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What’s That Pink Stuff Spilled At Apex Energy Shale Gas Well Pad In Salem Twp., Westmoreland County?
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[2/5/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3
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[2/5/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Feb. 13 To Discuss Guidance Limiting Impacts Of Pipeline Construction; Pipelines Needed For Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogen; Electrification
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[2/5/2024]
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PJM Preliminary Performance Review Found 16,119 MW Of Forced Power Plant Outages During Winter Storm Gerri Affecting The Western Region Of PJM
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[2/5/2024]
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Help Wanted: Environmental Health Project Fellowship Summer 2024
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[1/29/2024]
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Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science
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[1/29/2024]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees To Drop By 25% For Fees Due On 2023 Wells; Total Revenue To Drop By Nearly $105 Million
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[1/29/2024]
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DEP To Require Unconventional Shale Gas Operators To Disclose Chemicals Used In Drilling, Fracking Operations Earlier In Well Drilling Process Thru PPC Emergency Plan Changes
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[1/29/2024]
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DEP Extends Deadline Of First Methane Pollution Report From Oil & Gas Facilities To June 1, 2024
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[1/29/2024]
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5 Months Later, Roulette Oil & Gas Still Has Not Resolved Violations For Abandoning A Shale Gas Well Without Plugging It In Potter County
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[1/29/2024]
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XTO Energy Begins Plugging First Of 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells At Butler County Well Pad
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[1/29/2024]
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66 Months Later, DEP Worked With Conventional Well Owner, But Multiple Spills At A Well Site Have Still Not Been Cleaned Up; No Protections In Place For Operators Or Taxpayers
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[1/29/2024]
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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?
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[1/29/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Approves Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County [Jan. 26 Inspection Found Gas Bubbling From Well]
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[1/29/2024]
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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
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[1/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 27
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[1/29/2024]
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PJM Interconnection Begins Review Of 46,000 MW Of New, Mostly Renewable Electric Generation Projects Under New Evaluation Process
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[1/29/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Denies Lackawanna Energy Center Power Plant Motion To Dismiss Boro Of Jessup’s Appeal Of DEP Air Permit
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[1/22/2024]
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CFA Approves $27 Million In Watershed, Recreation Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees; Fees Dropping $104 Million In 2024; New Grant Round Opening
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[1/22/2024]
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DEP Hosts In-Person, Virtual Q/A Sessions On Applying For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Mitigation Grants In Beaver County
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[1/22/2024]
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DEP Releases Final Guidance On Environmental Considerations In Using Trenchless Technology To Construct Natural Gas, Other Pipelines
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[1/22/2024]
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4 Months Later, XTO Energy, Inc. Said They Will Plug 4 Shale Gas Wells DEP Found To Be Abandoned And Not Plugged In September
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[1/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow
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[1/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 20
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[1/22/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit
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[1/22/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 25 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[1/22/2024]
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PJM Interconnection Issues New Cold Weather Alert For Western Region Jan. 19-22
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[1/22/2024]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities?
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[1/22/2024]
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Health Effects Institute Hosts Annual Conference April 28-30 In Philadelphia; Call For Abstracts
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[1/22/2024]
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PA Cong. Thompson, Deluzio Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Provide Flexibility To States Implementing The Federal Conventional Orphan Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[1/15/2024]
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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
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[1/15/2024]
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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
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[1/15/2024]
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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
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[1/15/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Olympus Shale Gas Well Permits In Westmoreland County To Proceed; Olympus Was Trying To Deprive Protect PT Of Its Rights
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[1/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips
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[1/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 13
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For Equitrans Project To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Equitrans Act 2 Soil Cleanup Report On Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Conventional Well That Failed Venting 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County
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[1/15/2024]
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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
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Sets Feb. 27 Hearing On Helix Ironwood Gas-Fired Power Plant Air Quality Permit Renewal, Lebanon County
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[1/15/2024]
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Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Proposes Waste Charge On Methane Leaking From Large Oil & Gas Facilities
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[1/15/2024]
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No False Solutions PA Coalition Issues Position Statement On Hydrogen, Carbon Capture & Storage, Chemical Recycling Of Plastics, Other Climate 'Solutions'
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[1/15/2024]
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PJM Interconnection: Winter Weather Forces Natural Gas Pipeline Fuel Restrictions, ‘Conservative Operations’ Declared To Assure Electric Grid Reliability Through Jan. 17
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[1/15/2024]
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CFA Begins Accepting Applications For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants Feb. 1
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[1/15/2024]
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Jewish Earth Alliance, Beth Am Israel Hosting Jan. 23 Online Program Rethinking Our Connection To Fossil Fuels - A Discussion
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[1/15/2024]
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Interns Wanted: Departments Of Environmental Protection, Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County
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[1/8/2024]
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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
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[1/8/2024]
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Saga Continues For DEP Trying To Get A Conventional Operator To Plug Warren County Well Venting Gas Since At Least 2018
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[1/8/2024]
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Zefiro Methane Corp To Begin Monitoring Abandoned Conventional Wells For Plugging To Create Emission Offsets
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Accepting Project Applications For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund
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[1/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 6
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Disapproves Land Recycling Risk Assessment For Dozens Of Chemicals At American Refining Group Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Act 2 Cleanup Reports For Trainer Refinery, Delaware County; Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery
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[1/8/2024]
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PJM Urges United Action To Sustain Grid Reliability Through The Energy Transition, Avoid Unreliability Issues Of Natural Gas, Other Generators
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[1/8/2024]
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EPA, PennEnvironment, Moms Clean Air Force PA, PECO Host Jan. 9 Webinar On Applying For EPA Clean School Bus Rebate Program
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[1/8/2024]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Jan. 29 Webinar On Green Infrastructure And Salty Stormwater
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[1/8/2024]
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Penn State Extension To Host Jan. 18 Webinar On Unlocking The Power Of Hydrogen
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[1/1/2024]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss The PFOA/PFOS ‘Forever Chemical’ Drinking Water Standard, Hydrogen Hubs In PA At Jan. 9 Meeting
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[1/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas
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[1/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 30
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[1/1/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On A Permit For A Portion Of The NFG Midstream Covington 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline In Tioga County
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[1/1/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Final Act 2 Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Dozens Of Chemicals At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[12/25/2023]
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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
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[12/25/2023]
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Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond
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[12/25/2023]
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CNX Resources Begins Disclosing General Information On Fracking Chemicals, Air Monitoring Results Online At 2 Shale Gas Well Pads
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[12/25/2023]
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Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012
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[12/25/2023]
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AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back
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[12/25/2023]
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HEI Energy, Penn State Study Uses 28,500 Water Sample Results To Help Identify Oil & Gas Industry Groundwater Pollution
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[12/25/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 23
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[12/25/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Requests For Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
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[12/25/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 32 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[12/25/2023]
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FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators
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[12/25/2023]
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PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec. 12 Home Explosion In Sewickley Heights, Allegheny County
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[12/25/2023]
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Project InnerSpace Launches Cross-Collaborative Future of Oil/Gas Well-Based Geothermal In Pennsylvania Study
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[12/25/2023]
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US DOE, Treasury Release Proposed Regulations Implementing Clean Hydrogen Production Credit Setting A Sliding Scale For Credits
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[12/18/2023]
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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
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[12/18/2023]
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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
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[12/18/2023]
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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
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[12/18/2023]
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EPA/DOE Award DEP $44.4 Million To Plug Active, Conventional Oil & Gas Wells To Stop Leaking Methane
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[12/18/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Estimates 2023 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Will Drop By Nearly $105 Million, While Almost 400 New Wells Were Drilled So Far In 2023
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[12/18/2023]
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HEI Energy Hosts Dec. 18 Webinar On New Research On Community Exposures To Oil & Gas Development & Groundwater Contamination In Beaver, Greene & Washington Counties
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[12/18/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 16
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[12/18/2023]
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House Hearing: Shapiro Administration Supports Expanding Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards; Renewables Lower Energy Costs; Increase Grid Reliability; More Work Needed To Improve Gas Reliability
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[12/18/2023]
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PJM Makes Multiple Reliability-Focused Improvements To Prepare For Winter To Deal With 70% Natural Gas, Other Generator Nonperformance In 2022
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[12/18/2023]
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House Passes Bill Requiring Registration Of Cryptocurrency Mining Operations, Impact Study
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[12/18/2023]
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CNX Ends Coordination On West Virginia Adams Fork Ammonia Energy Project, Anchor Of ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub Application
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[12/18/2023]
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Penn State Extension Webinar Dec. 21: Shale Gas Trends For Landowners, Growth & Land Leasing
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[12/18/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Independent Energy Information Office Bill; Democrats Attempt To Table Environmental Hearing Board Nominee
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[12/11/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Senate Republican Leaders Urge DEP To Withdraw Environmental Justice Policy Saying They Lack Statutory Authority, And Out-of-State Groups Not Actual Residents Express EJ Concerns
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[12/11/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Trigger ShutDown Of 4 Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Tioga County
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[12/11/2023]
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DEP Expects $44 Million To Plug Conventional Wells Leaking Methane; $76 Million For 2nd Year Of Federal Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
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[12/11/2023]
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DEP Plugs 132 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells So Far; DEP Issued 499 NOVs For New Conventional Well Abandonments So Far In 2023
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[12/11/2023]
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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
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[12/11/2023]
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Roulette Oil & Gas LLC Withdraws Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Application In Potter County
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[12/11/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 9
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[12/11/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter Natural Gas Production Down 0.5% Over 3rd Quarter 2022, But Increased Over Last 12 Months
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[12/11/2023]
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PennEnvironment, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Sue Styropek USA To Stop Plastic Pollution In Raccoon Creek, Ohio River In Beaver County
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[12/11/2023]
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PA Senate Hearing Focuses On Minimizing Risk And Harm In Development Of PA’s Hydrogen Infrastructure
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[12/11/2023]
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Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec. 13
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[12/11/2023]
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Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. Accepting Entries In Student Imagine A Clean Energy Future Contest
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[12/4/2023]
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DEP- EQT Settlement Agreement Allows Fracking To Resume From 2 Shale Gas Well Pads In Area Impacted By Frack-Out In New Freeport, Greene County; Does Not Address Water Supply Issues Of Residents
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[12/4/2023]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Reduction Program; Spill Policy; Chapter 78 Update; Certified Inspector Program; Injection Well Primacy
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[12/4/2023]
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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
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[12/4/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - December 2
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[12/4/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Mining Damage In Washington County
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[12/4/2023]
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EPA Finalizes Rule To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Infrastructure; DEP’s Oil & Gas Methane Regulations 1 Year Old
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[12/4/2023]
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PUC Again Reminds Consumers Of Dec. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% to -25.7%)
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[12/4/2023]
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Sen. Gene Yaw Announces He Received The Marcellus Shale Coalition 2023 Shale Gas Advocate Award [After Calling Gas Infrastructure Health, Safety Proposal ‘Stupid’]
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[12/4/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Provides Update On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response 9 Months After Derailment
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[12/4/2023]
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PennFuture, Clean Air Council, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund File Appeal Of Commonwealth Court’s Ruling Refusing To Allow Them To Intervene In RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Case
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[11/27/2023]
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The Derrick: DEP: Little Headway In Reno Oil Well Wastewater Cleanup In Venango County
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[11/27/2023]
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The Daily Item Guest Essay: State Senator Calls Natural Gas infrastructure Public Health And Safety Bill 'Stupid'
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[11/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 18 to 24 - 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 2nd Spill At Same Shale Gas Pad This Month; Village Of Reno Wastewater Cleanup Slow Going
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[11/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 25
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[11/27/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 19 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[11/27/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Business Meeting Dec. 14 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
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[11/20/2023]
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State Dept. Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development
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[11/20/2023]
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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
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Issues Record 5,653 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators So Far In 2023; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
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[11/20/2023]
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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
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[11/20/2023]
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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
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[11/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Danco Industries Petroleum Contaminated Wastewater Treatment Facility In Venango County
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[11/20/2023]
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Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant
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[11/20/2023]
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PUC Alert: Dec. 1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% to -25.7%)
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[11/20/2023]
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PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Overview Reports Now Available; But Do Not Address Winter Storm Elliot Issues
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Collects $62,475 Penalty From Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Under Agreement To Correct Violations, Improve Environmental Protections At The Facility
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[11/13/2023]
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New NERC Winter Reliability Assessment Finds Elevated Risk Of Blackouts In Extreme Weather Conditions; Natural Gas Supplies Still Vulnerable To These Conditions With 'Devastating Consequences'
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[11/13/2023]
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PUC Begins Process To Explore Rulemaking Related To Use Of Distributed Energy Resources And 'Virtual' Power Plants
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[11/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads
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[11/13/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro Must Acknowledge Health Risks Of Natural Gas Development And Take Meaningful Action To Protect The Public
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[11/13/2023]
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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
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[11/13/2023]
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TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses'
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[11/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11
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[11/13/2023]
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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
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[11/13/2023]
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PUC Seeks More Information On Peoples Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County That Damaged Hundreds Of Appliances, Caused Distribution Pipeline Leaks
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[11/13/2023]
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DEP To Hold Last 3 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
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[11/13/2023]
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Black Appalachian Coalition Urges Allegheny County Health Dept. To Hold US Steel Accountable, Protect Community Health, From Clairton Coke Works
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[11/13/2023]
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National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
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[11/13/2023]
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House Committees Hold Hearings On Hydrogen Hubs, Appliance Energy Efficiency; Consider Bills Increasing Recycling Fee, Study Solar Energy On Farms
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[11/13/2023]
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DOE Recognizes Allegheny College For Energy Savings As A Better Buildings Challenge Partner
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[11/13/2023]
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News From PA House & Senate
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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Sen. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Called Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County
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[11/6/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check
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[11/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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Protect PT Holds Nov. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[10/30/2023]
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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
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[10/30/2023]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Nov. 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
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[10/30/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator
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[10/30/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28
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[10/30/2023]
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Large Heating Oil Spill In Cumberland County Highlights A Hole In Storage Tank Act, Availability Of Voluntary Underground Tank Leak Cleanup Insurance
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[10/30/2023]
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DEP Adds Details On The 3 Upcoming Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
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[10/30/2023]
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DCNR Good Natured Blog: Getting To Know Seth Cassell, The New State Forester
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[10/30/2023]
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Better Path Coalition: Nov. 2 Brown Bag Briefing On Fracking And PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania
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[10/23/2023]
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Gov. Shapiro: We Need Stronger Laws To Deal With The ‘Corporate Greed’ That Let Oil & Gas Operators Get Away With Abandoning Wells For Far Too Long
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[10/23/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Recognizes 5 Individuals With The 2023 Community Sentinel Awards - 3 From Pennsylvania
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[10/23/2023]
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DEP Adds 3 More Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
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[10/23/2023]
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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’
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[10/23/2023]
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Gov. Shapiro Marks Plugging 100th Conventional Oil & Gas Well In 10 Months; New Initiative Allows Texting Abandoned Well Photos/Locations To Governor That Need Plugging
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[10/23/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 14 to 20 - 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Conventional Gas Migration Incident; Inactive Shale Gas Wells
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[10/23/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 21
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[10/23/2023]
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Senate Committee Briefing Finds No Definition Or Standard For ‘Responsibly Sourced’ Natural Gas; PA Producers Already Below One RS Threshold
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[10/23/2023]
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EPA, West Virginia Officials Working To Secure Fairmount Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Facility To Prevent Release Of Radioactive, Hazardous Materials
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[10/23/2023]
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PUC Safety Division Investigating Columbia Gas Service Disruptions To 4,000+ Customers In Beaver County
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[10/23/2023]
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PUC Updates Investigation Into Dec. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County
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[10/23/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 2 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including Shale Gas Drilling In Loyalsock, Pine Creek Exceptional Value Watersheds
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[10/23/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 19 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[10/23/2023]
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House Committee Reports Out Cryptocurrency Mining Bill Without Permit Moratorium; Resolution To Encourage Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools; Hearing On Gas Facility Setbacks Oct. 30
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[10/23/2023]
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Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
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[10/23/2023]
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PEMA Now Accepting Letters Of Interest For FEMA Flood Mitigation & Building Resilient Infrastructure And Communities Grant Programs
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[10/23/2023]
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DEP Responds To Oil Spill In Conodoguinet Creek; PA American Water Company Shuts Water Intake, Customers Asked To Conserve Water In Cumberland County
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[10/23/2023]
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Protect PT, Partners Host Oct. 26 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania's Oil & Gas Production
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[10/23/2023]
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Environmental Advocates To Spend More Than $250,000 In Support Of McCaffery In Critical PA Supreme Court Race To Protect Constitutional Right To Clean Air, Pure Water
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[10/16/2023]
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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
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[10/16/2023]
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DEP Reports Shale Gas Operations Sent Over 138,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2022 - Over 911,000 Cubic Feet Since 2017
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[10/16/2023]
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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
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[10/16/2023]
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The Derrick: Permanent Alternate Water Supply Being Considered For Village Of Reno, Venango County After Contamination By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
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[10/16/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
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[10/16/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments At Nov. 14 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Energy Transfer Natural Gas Liquids Marcus Hook Terminal In An EJ Area, Delaware County
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[10/16/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 14
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[10/16/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Formally Files Changes To Electric Capacity Market Rules With FERC Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
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[10/16/2023]
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Better Path Coalition: Oct. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure
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[10/16/2023]
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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
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[10/16/2023]
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DOE Awards Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Hub In Western PA, Renewable/Nuclear Power-Based Hydrogen Hub In Eastern PA; Reactions
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[10/16/2023]
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DEP Extends Public Comment Period On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy To Nov. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings
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[10/9/2023]
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Dickinson College Environmental & Indigenous Rights Honoree Tara Houska: Don’t Disconnect Yourself From The Reality Of Nature; Endless Expansion Of Pipelines Have No Place In Reality; Find Powerful Moments Of Joy
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[10/9/2023]
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Repsol Gas USA Issued Violation For Denying DEP Right To Document Damaged Shale Gas Well Casing During Investigation Of Uncontrolled Gas Venting In Bradford County
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[10/9/2023]
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DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Unauthorized Water Withdrawals For 17 Days From Beaver Run Reservoir In Westmoreland County
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[10/9/2023]
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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
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[10/9/2023]
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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
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[10/9/2023]
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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
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[10/9/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On PA General Energy Constructing 3 Shale Natural Gas, Water Pipelines Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality, Wild Trout Streams In Lycoming County
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[10/9/2023]
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DEP Now Accepting Comments On 2 Proposed Olympus Energy Water Withdrawal Structures At Beaver Run Reservoir To Support Shale Gas Development In Westmoreland County
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[10/9/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 7
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[10/9/2023]
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Agencies Celebrate Eastern Hellbender License Plate Recognizing PA’s Clean Water Ambassador; Gas Development On DCNR Land Threatens Habitat
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[10/9/2023]
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DCNR Announces Appointment Of Seth Cassell As Pennsylvania's 18th State Forester
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[10/9/2023]
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Center For Rural Pennsylvania: Rural Population To Shrink 5.8%; Fewer Young People, More Older People; Current Policies Failed To Sustain Communities, Ensure Long-Term Rural Resiliency
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[10/9/2023]
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The Allegheny Front: Three Rivers Waterkeeper Citizen Monitoring Finds Plastics Maker Styrenics LLC Discharging Plastic Nurdles Into Ohio River, Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Them
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[10/9/2023]
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PUC: Focus Of Natural Gas Explosion In Port Richmond Section Of Philadelphia Now Inside The Buildings
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[10/9/2023]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. 5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations
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[10/9/2023]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 17 In-Person Harnessing Hydrogen: Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities In Appalachia Program
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[10/2/2023]
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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?
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[10/2/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: How DEP Issues Permits For Shale Gas Facilities Without Considering Cumulative Impacts - How New Facilities Will Add To Existing Pollution Loads And Impact The Area
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[10/2/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Title V Air Quality Permit For Eastern Gas Transmission Compressor Station In Westmoreland County At Oct. 31 Hearing
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[10/2/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 30
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[10/2/2023]
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Member Of Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Briefs DCNR Advisory Council On Siting Of Shale Gas Well Pad On State Forest Land To Accommodate Taking Gas From Private Land In Tioga County
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[10/2/2023]
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Gettysburg Times: DCNR Secretary Dunn Stresses Connection Between Community And Protection Of Natural Resources Giving People ‘A Sense Of Place’ That Makes PA Unique
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[10/2/2023]
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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
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[10/2/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Board Proposes Market Reforms Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
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[10/2/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Files Proposed Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Electric Generators With FERC, Requests Final Action By Dec. 29
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[10/2/2023]
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PUC Investigating Delaware County Natural Gas Pipeline Leak, House Explosion And Evacuation Of 100+ People
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[10/2/2023]
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The Conservation Fund, DCNR Add 436 Acres Of Forest Land To Pinchot State Forest In Lackawanna County With Financial Support From Williams Natural Gas Pipeline Company
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[9/25/2023]
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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
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP Issues NOVs To Roulette Oil & Gas LLC For Abandoning Another Conventional Well In Potter County; Roulette Applying For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit
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[9/25/2023]
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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
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[9/25/2023]
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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
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[9/25/2023]
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EPA Approves Permit For Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Plum Boro, Allegheny County; 30 Days To File Appeal
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP Hears Concerns, Some Support From Water Resources Committee On Draft Reg. On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases
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[9/25/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 23
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[9/25/2023]
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PUC To Seek Public Comment On Proposed $100,000 Penalty Settlement With Mifflin Energy Corp. For Natural Gas Explosion Destroying Home/Business In Greene County
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[9/25/2023]
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Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. 28 Webinar Updates Public On Efforts To Reduce Methane, Other Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry Infrastructure - Shale Gas & Conventional Wells
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[9/25/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 8 Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawals - 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Home To The Hellbender
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[9/25/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 34 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[9/25/2023]
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Game Commission Board OKs More Shale Gas Drilling In Lycoming County, Home To The Hellbender, And Sullivan County
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[9/25/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Now Accepting Nominations For 2023 Community Sentinel Award
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[9/25/2023]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, NERC Final Report On Winter Storm Elliott Says Legislative Action Needed To Establish Reliability Rules For Natural Gas Infrastructure
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP To Increase Monitoring, Develop Surface Water Standard For PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' After Study Shows 76% Of Streams, Rivers Contained At Least One Of These Chemicals
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water Leading Shale Gas Operators To Use Contaminated Water In Fracking Operations; DEP Doesn’t Require Routine PFAS Testing
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP: York County Moved To Drought Warning; 19 Counties Still In Drought Watch
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[9/25/2023]
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Dickinson College Will Host An Evening With Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska On Her Groundbreaking Advocacy Work Oct. 4
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[9/18/2023]
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Petro Erie, Inc. Says It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply; Will Taxpayers Be Stuck With Cleanup Costs Again?
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[9/18/2023]
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Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week
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[9/18/2023]
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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
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[9/18/2023]
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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
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[9/18/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 16
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[9/18/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For A Texas Eastern Pipeline Project Going Under The Schuylkill River In Chester, Montgomery Counties
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[9/18/2023]
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Oil Region National Heritage Area To Hold 2nd Oil Heritage Energy Security Conference Oct. 12-13 In Venango County
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[9/18/2023]
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PUC Urges Consumers To Shop For Natural Gas Supplies To Lock In Lower Gas Prices To Help Insulate Against Potential Energy Price Spikes
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[9/18/2023]
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Help Wanted: Pennsylvania Environmental Council - President/CEO
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[9/11/2023]
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KDKA: Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Crashes Into, Thru Westmoreland County Home And A Loophole In State Law That Doesn’t Regulate Gathering Pipelines For Safety
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[9/11/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 2 to 8; Equitrans Issued NOVs For Failing To Provide DEP Inspectors Access To Facilities As Requested
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[9/11/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 9
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[9/11/2023]
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DEP: Preliminary Test Results Not Indicative Of Stray Gas Migration Cause Of Plum Boro Home Explosion In Rustic Ridge Allegheny County
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[9/11/2023]
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PUC: No Evidence Public Utility Natural Gas Equipment Caused 2022 Hialeah Dr. Home Explosion In Plum Boro, Allegheny County
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[9/11/2023]
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State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
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[9/11/2023]
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DEP Provides Oil & Gas Advisory Board With Updates On Well Plugging Financial Assurance; Pitt Health Studies; Funding Options For Program; Civil Penalty Policy
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[9/11/2023]
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Republican Rep. Krupa Introduces HB 1656 To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
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[9/11/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 2nd Quarter Natural Gas Production Increased 0.3% Over Prior Year; Dramatic Slowdown In Drilling New Shale Gas Wells Taking Hold
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[9/11/2023]
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DEP Hosts Sept. 29 Online Training On New Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Guidance
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[9/11/2023]
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Legal Victory Puts Hellbender Back On Track For Federal Endangered Species Protection
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[9/4/2023]
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DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept. 16
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[9/4/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Give Teeth To DEP Environmental Justice Policy
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[9/4/2023]
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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
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[9/4/2023]
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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
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[9/4/2023]
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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
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[9/4/2023]
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DEP Responds To Emergency Notification Of Uncontrolled Venting Of Natural Gas For Over 10.5 Hours From A Repsol Oil Shale Gas Well; Temporary Evacuation Order Issued In Bradford County
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[9/4/2023]
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EQT Shale Gas Wastewater Truck Rolls Over Spilling More Than 4,600 Gallons Of Wastewater In Lycoming County
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[9/4/2023]
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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
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[9/4/2023]
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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
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[9/4/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - September 2
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[9/4/2023]
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PUC Safety Division Continues Investigation Into Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
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[9/4/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Hears Testimony On Making Electricity Market Reforms To Address Nonperformance Of Natural Gas And Other Generators During Winter Storm Elliot; Transition To Clean Energy
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[9/4/2023]
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PUC’s Stephen M. DeFrank Thanks Gov. Shapiro For Appointment As New Chairman
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[9/4/2023]
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Gladys Brown Dutrieuille Offers Thoughts On Her PUC Tenure; Thanks Commission Staff, Colleagues For Their Dedication And Commitment As She Departs State Service
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[9/4/2023]
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PUC Welcomes New Commissioner Kim Barrow, Thanks Senate For Confirmation Votes, Governor For Nomination; Barrow Elected Vice Chair Of PUC
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[8/28/2023]
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Lawsuit Filed Against General Assembly, Governor Challenges Constitutionality Of Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Harm Caused By Abandoning Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/28/2023]
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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
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[8/28/2023]
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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
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[8/28/2023]
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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
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[8/28/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 19 to 25 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Gas Frack-Out; More Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Equitrans Cleanup Continues
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[8/28/2023]
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Republican Rep. Krupa To Introduce Bill To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
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[8/28/2023]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation Of Oil & Gas Development
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[8/28/2023]
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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
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[8/28/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 26
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[8/28/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 25 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use General Permits In Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[8/28/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Vote Sept. 14 On Budget, Climate Change Resolution, Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Shale Gas Drilling Operations - 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek
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[8/28/2023]
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PUC Approves 2 Penalty Settlements With Columbia Gas Totaling $1.525 Million For A House Explosion In Washington County, 2 Natural Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Incidents In Franklin, Clarion Counties
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[8/28/2023]
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US DOT Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Announces Proposed Rules To Reduce Risk Of Natural Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Incidents, Explosions
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[8/28/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Secures Methane Detectors For Neighborhood In Plum Boro, Allegheny County Where Home Exploded
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[8/28/2023]
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15 Western PA Environmental Organizations Call On Gov. Shapiro To Implement RGGI
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[8/28/2023]
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On Demand: ReImagine Appalachia Faith In Action: Environmental Justice For All - Ensuring Equity And Benefits Across Our Most Climate-Impacted Communities
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[8/21/2023]
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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
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[8/21/2023]
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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’
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[8/21/2023]
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Post-Gazette Editorial: Who Pays For Natural Gas Development’s Harm? Pennsylvania Should Acknowledge The Clear Fact That Fracking Has Hurt People, Specifically Children
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[8/21/2023]
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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
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[8/21/2023]
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DEP Investigating Other Possible Sources Of Methane As Part Of Response To Plum Borough Home Explosion, Including Nearby Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[8/21/2023]
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Public Utility Commission Safety Investigation Ongoing Following Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
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[8/21/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 12 to 18; DEP Orders Restoration Of Water Supply; Conventional Wells Abandoned; Leaking Methane, Fluids
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[8/21/2023]
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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
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[8/21/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 19
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[8/21/2023]
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DEP Grants Variance From Containment Standard For 10 Aboveground Storage Tanks At American Refining Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
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[8/21/2023]
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DCNR: New Budget Follows Thru On Commitments To Protect State Parks & Forests And Spur Economic Development Thru Outdoor Recreation
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[8/14/2023]
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University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
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[8/14/2023]
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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
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[8/14/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence
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[8/14/2023]
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EPA: G2 STEM LLC Withdraws Application For Oil/Gas Wastewater Underground Injection Well Permit In Fayette County
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[8/14/2023]
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DEP Extends Comment Period On Proposed Roulette Oil/Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County To Sept. 7
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[8/14/2023]
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DEP Accepting Comments On 2 Major Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream Natural Gas, Water Pipeline Projects Impacting EV, HQ Streams, Wetlands In Westmoreland County
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[8/14/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 12
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[8/14/2023]
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DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. 2025
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[8/14/2023]
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PA League Of Women Voters, Food & Water Watch Launch Letter-Writing Campaign Opposing Hydrogen Hubs In PA
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[8/14/2023]
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PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network: Over 51,000 Christians Call For Stronger Standards On Fossil Fuel Power Plants
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[8/14/2023]
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PJM Interconnection, Other Grid Operators Express Concerns Proposed EPA Power Plant Rule Will Accelerate Retirements Of Fossil Fuel Plants Without Reliable Renewable, Storage Technologies To Replace Them
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[8/14/2023]
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PA Solar Center Hosts Aug. 18 PA Renewable Energy Policy Webinar - Time To Take Action
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[8/7/2023]
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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
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[8/7/2023]
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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
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[8/7/2023]
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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
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[8/7/2023]
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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
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[8/7/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - August 5
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[8/7/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Equitrans To Replace Abandoned Natural Gas Storage Wells In Greene County Due To Coal Mining
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[8/7/2023]
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DEP Sets Sept. 19 Meeting/Hearing On Air Permit For Expansion Of Marcus Hook Terminal’s Ethane Chilling Capacity In Delaware County
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[8/7/2023]
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Eureka Resources Extracted 97% Pure Lithium Carbonate Used In Making Lithium-ion Batteries From Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[7/31/2023]
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Pennsylvania Environmental Council President Davitt Woodwell To Retire
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[7/31/2023]
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University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Will Release Results Of Shale Gas Development Health Impact Study On Aug. 15 In Washington County
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[7/31/2023]
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DEP Signs $660,000 Penalty Agreement With Sunoco To Resolve More Violations During The Construction Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline In 9 Counties; Penalties Now Total Nearly $31 Million Just From DEP
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[7/31/2023]
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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
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[7/31/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 15 to 22; 8 More New Conventional Well Abandonments
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[7/31/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 22 to 28
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[7/31/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 29
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[7/31/2023]
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DCED Gives UGI Utilities A $501,136 Grant For A New Natural Gas Pipeline To Serve Little Leaf Greenhouse In Carbon County
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[7/24/2023]
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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
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[7/24/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 22
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[7/24/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Aug. 10 Hearing On Proposed Water Withdrawals, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Drilling Operations, 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek
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[7/24/2023]
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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
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[7/24/2023]
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Steering Committee Releases Protocol To Allocate $5 Million Penalty Fund Related To The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[7/24/2023]
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PennVEST Invests $116.9 Million In 22 Drinking Water, Wastewater, Nonpoint Source Projects; And An Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility
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[7/24/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Reports Higher Percentage Of Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation Outages Than Originally Thought During Winter Storm Elliott - 70%
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Secretary Negrin To Citizen Activists: ‘We Don’t Represent Chevron, We Don’t Represent Shell And I’ve Made That Absolutely Clear-- We’re Holding Those Leaders Accountable’
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Held July 13 Local Steering Committee Meeting For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Community Fund
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[7/17/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP: Risk Assessment Did Not Prove Chemicals Polluting Soil & Groundwater At American Refinery Group’s Bradford Petroleum Refinery Met Safe Environmental Cleanup Standards
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[7/17/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 15
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On CNX Midstream Project To Expose Natural Gas, Water/Wastewater Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Greene County
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[7/17/2023]
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EQB No Longer Has Statutory Authority To Change Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts To Help Prevent 400 to 600 New Well Abandonments A Year; Adopts Proposed Changes To Water Quality Standards For Comment
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[7/17/2023]
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PA Eligible To Apply For $76.4 Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; Conventional Operators Still Abandoning Wells
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Posts Draft Final Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis; Will Discuss At Agricultural Advisory Board Meeting July 18
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[7/17/2023]
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MethaneSAT-EDF Successfully Test Methane Detection Technology To Be Used To Document Methane Emissions From Onshore Natural Gas Production In North America
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[7/17/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Do Oil & Gas Drillers Owe Taxpayers Royalties For Oil & Gas Under Roads, Streets, Bridges And Other Taxpayer-Owned Land?
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Blog: Do You Know What’s Below? Gasoline Stations And Aging Underground Storage Tanks In Pennsylvania
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[7/17/2023]
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2nd Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update Conference Aug. 9 In Pittsburgh On Managing Shale Gas, Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[7/10/2023]
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Community Demands Accountability From EQT Natural Gas On 1-Year Anniversary Of Greene County Frack-Out Incident; Families Still Without Clean Water; No DEP Investigation Results
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[7/10/2023]
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KDKA Investigation: Washington County Family Says Energy Transfer/MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Plants Turned A Peaceful Farm Into A Nightmare
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[7/10/2023]
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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
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[7/10/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Draft Shale Gas Well Emergency Response, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plan Guidance
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[7/10/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 1 to 7; New Brownfield Cleanups; Shale Gas Well Plugging Picks Up; New Conventional Well Abandonments
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[7/10/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 8; New Brownfield Cleanups Increase
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[7/10/2023]
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DEP Sets Aug. 23 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit Revisions For Artemas Natural Gas Compressor Station In Bedford County
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[7/10/2023]
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Guest Essay: ‘Clean’ Hydrogen Smoke And Mirrors
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[7/10/2023]
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WeConservePA Hosts Oct. 5 Webinar On Establishing Local Environmental Advisory Councils; EAC Network Gathering Oct. 21
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[7/3/2023]
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House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On Bills Increasing Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities, Cryptocurrency Permit Moratorium
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[7/3/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[7/3/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 1
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[7/3/2023]
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Environmental Quality Board Meets July 11 To Consider Changes To Water Quality Standards; DEP Reports Law Limiting Its Authority To Change Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding May Be Unconstitutional
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[7/3/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 11 On Programs To Promote Use Of Electric Vehicles; Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis
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[7/3/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Projects 2023 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue At $180 to $184 Million, A Drop Of $94 Million From 2022 Revenue
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[7/3/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Cryptocurrency Power Generation Facility By Diversified Production, LLC At A Shale Gas Well In Elk County
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[7/3/2023]
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Western PA Conservancy Watershed Conservation Program Receives U.S. Forest Service Award For Decades-Long Work To Improve Water Quality In The Allegheny National Forest
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[7/3/2023]
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Pennsylvania Groups Call For Transparency With State Plans For Carbon Capture, Storage
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[7/3/2023]
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DEP Extends Application Period, Increases Rebate Amounts And Expands Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchen Rebate Program To Restaurants
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[6/26/2023]
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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
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[6/26/2023]
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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
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[6/26/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 24
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[6/26/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Holds June 27 Meeting On Bills Increasing Setback Distances From Natural Gas Infrastructure, 2-Year Moratorium On Cryptocurrency Air Permits
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[6/26/2023]
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Senate Committee Meets June 26 To Consider Nomination Of Richard Negrin As DEP Secretary; Energy Information Office, Electric Billing Legislation
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[6/26/2023]
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DEP To Hold July 25 Hearing On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Potter County
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[6/26/2023]
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EPA Issues Permit For Class IID Oil & Gas Waste Underground Injection Well In Jefferson County
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[6/26/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
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[6/26/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 32 Shale Gas Well Pad Water Use Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[6/26/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Letting Polluters Decide When To Report Spills And CO2 Injection Well Primacy By Party-Line Votes
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[6/26/2023]
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PUC Distributes A Record $278.8 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue; Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Do Not Pay These Fees
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[6/19/2023]
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Casey, Fetterman Announce $5.5 Million In Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells In The Allegheny National Forest
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[6/19/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 10 to 16 -- Leaking Conventional Wells; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Using Tape To Repair Containment Liner
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[6/19/2023]
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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
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[6/19/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On MarkWest Liberty Midstream Project To Expose 1 Mile+ Of 2 Natural Gas Pipelines To Prevent Longwall Coal Mining Damage In Washington County
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[6/19/2023]
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DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits
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[6/19/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 17
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[6/19/2023]
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Bay Journal: Satellites, Drones, Special Cameras Join The Fight Against Methane/VOC Pollution From Oil/Gas Wells, Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Coal Mines In Pennsylvania
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[6/19/2023]
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PUC Vice Chairman: During Winter Storm Elliot We Learned Natural Gas Can Be An Intermittent Generator Of Electricity Just Like Renewables
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[6/19/2023]
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S&P Global: Federal Inquiry Finds Same 3 Causes Driving U.S. Generate Outages In Extreme Cold - Reliability Of Natural Gas System Remains A Concern
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[6/19/2023]
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PUC Releases Summer Readiness Reports From Electric Utilities - Adequate Capacity And Supply To Meet Summer Energy Needs
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[6/19/2023]
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DEP Declares Statewide Drought Watch, Recommends Voluntary Water Conservation
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[6/19/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Advises Water Withdrawal Permit Holders To Review Low Flow Water Restrictions And Begin Planning For Alternative Operations
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[6/19/2023]
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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
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[6/12/2023]
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House Committee Reports Out Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution; And Other Bills
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[6/12/2023]
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Republicans, Shale Gas Industry Oppose House Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution
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[6/12/2023]
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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
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[6/12/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 3 to 9: Plugged Conventional Well Frack-Out; 10 More NOVs For Abandoning Conventional Wells
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[6/12/2023]
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Better Path Coalition: June 22 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing With Laurie Barr On Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells
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[6/12/2023]
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Inside Climate News: Abandoned Conventional Oil/Natural Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens, Other Harmful Pollutants In PA, Study Shows
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[6/12/2023]
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EPA Invites Comments On Proposed Oil/Gas Waste Underground Injection Well In Fayette County; July 11 Virtual Public Hearing Set
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[6/12/2023]
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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
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[6/12/2023]
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Residents, Environmental Groups Rally Against Shell Petrochemical Plant's Pollution In Beaver County
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[6/12/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Info Session On Carbon Capture Discusses Job Potential; Reaching Net-Zero Carbon Goal; Impacts/Risks Of The Technology; PA’s Poor Track Record In Regulating Pipelines, Oil & Gas Industry
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[6/12/2023]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Virtual Fundamentals Of Carbon Capture And CO2 Flooding Workshop June 27
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[6/5/2023]
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DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.
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[6/5/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells
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[6/5/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3
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[6/5/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Low Stream Flows Trigger SRBC Water Withdrawal Restrictions On 49 Oil & Gas Drilling Operations & Other Water Users
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[6/5/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Peaked In 4th Quarter 2021
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[6/5/2023]
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House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities
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[6/5/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Meets June 6 To Consider Bills On Environmental Impact Reports; Cryptocurrency Operations; Clean Hydrogen
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[6/5/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Issued Hot Weather Alert For Entire Footprint For June 2
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[5/29/2023]
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House Bill Introduced To Create Veterans Entering The Sustainability Sector Workforce Incentive Program
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[5/29/2023]
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Conventional Oil/Gas Industry Bothered By DEP Records Showing They Receive NOVs For Abandoning An Average Of 561 Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 20 to 26; DEP Issues More NOVs For Conventional Well Abandonments
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[5/29/2023]
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Democrats On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: Renew Bonds To Close, Cleanup Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
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[5/29/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 27
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[5/29/2023]
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Warren Times Editorial: Keeping A Natural Lifeline Pure With Environmental Rights Amendment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24
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[5/29/2023]
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Things Are Different In The House: Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs Became ‘Democracy’ vs. ‘Open Mic Night’
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[5/29/2023]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Names Rev. Dr. Jessica Moerman New President & CEO, The Rev. Mitch Hescox Retiring
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[5/29/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets June 15 On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
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[5/29/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 36 Shale Gas Well Drilling Pad Water Use Permits In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[5/22/2023]
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Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects
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[5/22/2023]
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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Asks DCNR To Protect State Forest Land From Seneca Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad, Comply With PA Supreme Court Decision, Protect Recreation, Wildlife
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[5/22/2023]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: PA Supreme Court Reaffirms Environmental Quality Is A Right Not A Luxury In Shale Gas Drilling Ruling
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[5/22/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Meets May 23 To Consider Bills To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year; Authorize Streambank Fencing
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[5/22/2023]
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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
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[5/22/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
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[5/22/2023]
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Environmental Groups Launched Effort May 4 Asking For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities, So Far No Response
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[5/22/2023]
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Zefiro Methane Corp. Acquires PA-Based Plants & Goodwin Well Plugging Firm To Create Methane Emission Offsets
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[5/22/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Holds May 22 Hearing On Hydrogen Hubs & Climate Change
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[5/22/2023]
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PUC Alerts Consumers To Electricity Price Changes Coming June 1-- From 20.7% Increase To 17% Decrease; Driven By Price Of Natural Gas
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[5/22/2023]
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NRDC: PJM Interconnection Delays In Queue To Approve Renewable Energy Projects Threatens State Transition To Clean Energy; PJM Has Approved 35,000 MW Of Renewables Not Yet Connected
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[5/22/2023]
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Heinz Endowments Awards Nearly $11.1 Million In Grants For Environmental Health, Food Insecurity, Education, Housing
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[5/15/2023]
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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County
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[5/15/2023]
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Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations
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[5/15/2023]
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PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County
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[5/15/2023]
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Penn State Shale [Gas] Network Workshop Features Acting DEP Secretary Richard Negrin May 18-19 In State College
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[5/15/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 6 to 12; Equitrans Gas Storage Area Issued New NOVs
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[5/15/2023]
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DEP: Seneca Resources Ignores NOVs On DCNR Shale Gas Well Pad Cleanup For 7 Months & Counting; Citizen Complaint Finds Homeowner Well Venting Gas; Multiple Tanker Truck Spills
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[5/15/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment May 13
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[5/15/2023]
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Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads
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[5/15/2023]
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Guest Essay: PA Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Blog: More Carbon Dioxide Is Good, Less Is Bad
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[5/15/2023]
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Harrisburg University Research Cited By 2 Federal Agencies In New Regulations To Fight Methane Pollution From Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[5/15/2023]
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PJM Interconnection: Summer Electricity Supplies Should Be Sufficient Under Anticipated Conditions; Higher Than Expected Generator Outages, Extreme Scenarios Could Bring Risk To Reserve Margins
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[5/8/2023]
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Center For Coalfield Justice: Nearly 11 Months Since An EQT Shale Gas Well Frac-Out Left Residents Near New Freeport, Greene County Without Clean Water; DEP’s Investigation Not Complete
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[5/8/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
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[5/8/2023]
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Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills
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[5/8/2023]
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Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA
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[5/8/2023]
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EDF: Federal Pipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Proposes Vital Standards to Enhance Safety, Cut Methane From Nation’s Pipeline Network
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[5/8/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 6
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[5/8/2023]
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Environmental Groups Circulate Petition Asking Dept. of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[5/8/2023]
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DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept. of Health, CDC Launch Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
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[5/8/2023]
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Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[5/8/2023]
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Three Rivers Waterkeeper Seeking Volunteers For 3 Rivers Watch, Training Starts For Pollution Patrols; Other Upcoming Events
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[5/8/2023]
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Senate Hearing: Wholesale Electricity Prices Too Low To Support Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants In Market; Natural Gas Reliability Issues Will Continue
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[5/8/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 9 For Updates On Federal Infrastructure Projects; Act 54 Report On Damage From Coal Mining; Carbon Capture; Hydrogen Hub
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[5/8/2023]
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Physicians For Social Responsibility PA Host May 10 Webinar: Imagine A More Natural PA - How We Use Methane Gas, What It's Doing To Us
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[5/1/2023]
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Dickinson College To Recognize Environmental & Indigenous Rights Advocate Tara Houska With Rose-Walters Prize For Environmental Activism
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[5/1/2023]
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House Hearing: Let’s Work Together To Make Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Practices Cleaner, Respect Property Rights, Protect Taxpayers And Prevent New Abandoned Wells
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[5/1/2023]
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EDF: Pennsylvania Has 55,000 Oil/Gas Wells At High Risk Of Being Abandoned; 51,000 Wells At Risk Of Being Transferred To Low Solvency Owners; Current Conventional Well Owners Abandon 561 Wells A Year, On Average
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[5/1/2023]
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Guest Essay: Conventional vs Unconventional Oil & Gas Wells - Not As Different As You Might Think
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[5/1/2023]
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House Committee Meets May 2 On Bill To Restore Authority To Review Conventional Oil/Gas Well Plugging Bonding Amounts; Help Prevent Routine Abandonment Of An Average Of 561 Wells A Year
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[5/1/2023]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Implement Reforms For Natural Gas Drilling, Fracking
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[5/1/2023]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Clarifies New Regulations On Oil/Gas Fracking Wastewater Bans Road Spreading, Disposal From Conventional Wells
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[5/1/2023]
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DEP Tentatively Sets May 18 Online Public Conference On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County; Opponents Again Call For Robust Public Participation Process
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[5/1/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
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[5/1/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Finding 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells Owned By Prosperity Oil Co. Continuing To Vent Natural Gas In Washington County
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[5/1/2023]
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Chesapeake Appalachia: DEP Inspections Find Violations For Spills, Releases, Continuing Defective Casing/Cementing At Shale Gas Well Pads In Bradford, Susquehanna Counties
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[5/1/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 29
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[5/1/2023]
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NRDC: U.S. Dept. Of Transportation Denies Special Permit For Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail From A Proposed Bradford County LNG Plant; Shipping By Truck Still Allowed
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[5/1/2023]
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Eyes On Shell Reports Shell Petrochemical Plant Fenceline Monitors Found Benzene Emissions Above Toxic Substances Limits; No Timeline For Restarting Plant; DEP Issued Another NOV For Air Violations
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[5/1/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Holds May 1 Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability Looking At Natural Gas, Other Generation Failures During Winter Storm Elliot In December
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[5/1/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
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[4/24/2023]
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New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study
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[4/24/2023]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Approves Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
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[4/24/2023]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds DEP’s Authority To Protect Public Resources, Playgrounds From Adverse Impacts Of Shale Gas Well Operations; Do Not Mistake This Win For Adequate Protection
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[4/24/2023]
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Bay Journal: Shale Gas Drilling, Development Yields Both Fears, Funding For Pennsylvania Public Lands
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[4/24/2023]
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Concerned Residents, Advocates Call On DEP For The Opportunity To Comment On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Potter County
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[4/24/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Sets April 24 Hearing On Plugging Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; New Bill Restores Authority To Increase Conventional Well Bonding
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[4/24/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/24/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Discovery Of An Unreported Crude Oil Spill Affecting Over 2,400 Feet Of Stream At A Cameron Energy Conventional Well Site In Forest County
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[4/24/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 22
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[4/24/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Local Leaders, DOT Must Stop Plant In Wyalusing, Bradford County From Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail Or Truck Or Both To Philadelphia
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[4/24/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission May 4 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Projects, Including 12 Related To Shale Natural Gas Drilling
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[4/24/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approved 39 Water Use Permits For Shale Gas Well Drilling Pads In Bradford, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, Susquehanna, Tioga and Wyoming Counties
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[4/24/2023]
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Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Significantly Lower Water Flow May Have Long-Ranging Ripple Effect For Aquatic Resources, Recreational Use
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[4/24/2023]
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Intense, Bright White Light From The Shell Plastics Plant Turns Night Into Day For Many Neighbors Of The Beaver County Plant
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[4/17/2023]
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Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
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[4/17/2023]
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Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas; Same Facility Plagued Community With Blowdowns 3 Times A Day, 7 Days A Week For Nearly 10 Years Until Criminal Charges Brought Against CNX
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[4/17/2023]
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DEP/Equitrans Settlement: DEP, Preempted By Federal Law, Withdraws Order, Closes NOVs Against Equitrans For Cambria County Natural Gas Storage Leak Releasing 1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
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[4/17/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/17/2023]
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How Chesapeake Appalachia Created Another New Shale Gas Brownfield In Bradford County; Timberline Energy Plugs Its Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County
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[4/17/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 15
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[4/17/2023]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Meets April 20 On Final Emergency Regs Setting VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil/Gas Operations
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[4/17/2023]
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The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
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[4/17/2023]
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DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
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[4/17/2023]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts April 19 Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond
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[4/17/2023]
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City & State PA: PA Energy Summit May 11 In Pittsburgh, Featuring Keynote Speaker Acting DEP Secretary Negrin
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[4/10/2023]
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House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report
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[4/10/2023]
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New University Of Chicago Medical Study Connects Natural Gas Development In PA To Real, Serious Human Health Outcomes And Should Be A Call To Action For Policy Makers
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[4/10/2023]
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Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA
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[4/10/2023]
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Moms Clean Air Force: Strong Proposed EPA Petrochemical Plant Rules Are One Step Closer To Reality; Shell Petrochemical Plant Covered By Separate Proposed Rule
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[4/10/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
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[4/10/2023]
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DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8
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[4/10/2023]
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Local Officials, Residents, Advocacy Groups Call On DEP To Conduct A Robust Public Participation Process For Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Applications
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[4/10/2023]
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Homer City Coal-Fired Power Plant To Close In Indiana County; Low Price Of Natural Gas, High Price Of Coal, Regulatory Burdens, RGGI Cited As Causes; Solar Project Waiting To Fill Gap
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In March Now Available
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[4/10/2023]
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PA Council Of Professional Geologists Hosts April 20 Webinar Presentation By Manager Of PA State Seismic Network - Basement Structure Of Appalachian Basin In PA
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[4/3/2023]
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PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages
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[4/3/2023]
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PUC Denies Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Petition To Reconsider Regulation Of Class One Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines
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[4/3/2023]
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22 Groups Express Concerns With Pennsylvania’s Carbon Storage Plans, Capacity To Regulate Injection Wells
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[4/3/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands
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[4/3/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 1
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[3/27/2023]
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DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24
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[3/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
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[3/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 25
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[3/27/2023]
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Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County
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[3/27/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
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[3/27/2023]
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PA Senate Hearing: Norfolk Southern CEO: Ignition Of Rail Cars Following Ohio Trainwreck Was A 'Success'
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[3/27/2023]
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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen -- Like With Natural Gas Infrastructure Today
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[3/27/2023]
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PUC Strongly Encourages Customers To Explore Electric Shopping Options To Help Reduce Size Of Utility Bills
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[3/20/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: New Fortress Energy Reapplying For Wyalusing LNG Natural Gas Plant Permits In Bradford County
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[3/20/2023]
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U.S. DOT Misses Deadline To Suspend Rule Allowing Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail, Including A Proposal In PA
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[3/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
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[3/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 18
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[3/20/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: 75% Of Hazardous Waste Accepted At MAX Environmental Yukon Facility In Westmoreland County Comes From Shale Gas Industry; Sludge Proposed To Be Delisted As Hazardous Waste
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[3/20/2023]
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Commonwealth Court Rules PUC Is ‘Obligated’ To Conduct An Environmental Review Of Projects By The Environmental Rights Amendment In Case Involving A PECO Natural Gas Pumping Station In Delaware County
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[3/20/2023]
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Equitrans/DEP In Discussions To Resolve EHB Appeal Of DEP’s Order To Fix Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Area Conventional Access Wells
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[3/20/2023]
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DEP To Submit Letter Of Intent To EPA As Early As This Week For Primacy To Regulate Underground Injection Wells
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[3/20/2023]
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PA Business Groups Urge EPA To Speed Up Approval Of State Primacy Applications For Injection Well Regulation
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[3/20/2023]
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Federal Court Rules Challenge To DEP Air Quality Permit For Adelphia Natural Gas Pipeline Quakertown Compressor Station May Go Forward
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[3/20/2023]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Permits For Transco Regional Energy Access Expansion Natural Gas Pipeline In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
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[3/20/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Renewals For 7.1 Million Gallons/Day
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[3/20/2023]
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Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Council, Environmental Health Project Sponsor Ad Campaign To Finalize Strong EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emission Limits To Protect PA's Health & Climate
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[3/20/2023]
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Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County
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[3/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis
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[3/20/2023]
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March 29 Southeastern PA Town Hall Meeting In Chester County To Focus On Health, Environmental Impacts Of Fossil Fuels
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[3/20/2023]
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EPA: Power Plant, Pipeline, Cement, Paper, Glass And Other Industries In PA, Other States Face Tighter NOx Standards Under EPA’s Final Good Neighbor Rule
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[3/13/2023]
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The Guardian: One Of The Worst Global Methane Leaks In 2022 Was In PA - Equitrans In Cambria County; Routine Abandonment, Non-Compliance Of Conventional Gas Wells
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[3/13/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Lower Boom On Natural Gas Leaks, Audit Abandoned Gas Well Capping
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Methane Overflight Research Study Resulted In Voluntary Reductions In Oil & Gas, Landfill Facilities; Coal Industry Uncooperative
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[3/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
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[3/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 11
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 13 To Hear Updates On Regulation Of Natural Gas Storage Areas, Chapter 78 Regs; Federal Well Plugging Program, Carbon Capture, Hydrogen Development
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[3/13/2023]
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Senate Passes Bill Blocking Local Elected Officials From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change
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[3/13/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 16 On 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses; 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Transfer
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[3/13/2023]
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Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Allowing General Assembly To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Posts Updated List Of Technical Guidance In Development To Promote Public Involvement
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[3/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania State Actions Responding To Ohio/PA Train Derailment - Week Of March 6
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[3/13/2023]
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House Democratic & Republican Policy Committees Hold March 14 Joint Hearing On Impact Of Ohio/PA Train Derailment In Beaver County
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[3/13/2023]
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Norfolk Southern CEO To Appear March 20 Before PA Senate Committee To Answer Questions About Ohio/PA Train Derailment; Committee Subpoenas Documents
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[3/13/2023]
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Moms Clean Air Force: Impacted Parents From Ohio, PA Will Raise Concerns About Chemical Pollution From The Train Derailment, Petrochemical Industry In The Ohio Valley During U.S. Senate Hearing
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[3/13/2023]
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Sen. Bob Casey Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee On Ohio/PA Train Derailment
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[3/13/2023]
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U.S. Senate Hearing: Energy, Environmental Impacts Of Cryptocurrency Mining In Pennsylvania
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[3/13/2023]
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DEP Hosting 6 Regional Engagement Sessions On Climate Action For Environmental Justice Communities Starting April 5
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[3/13/2023]
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Save Our Streams PA Hosting April 28-30 Abandoned Well Weekend Workshop In Bradford County
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[3/13/2023]
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Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosts March 23 TEC Talk On Trends On Industry Decarbonization At Hazleton Campus
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[3/6/2023]
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Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged
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[3/6/2023]
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PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time To Hear Bold Leadership On Oil & Gas In Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Address
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[3/6/2023]
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Better Path Coalition, FracTracker Alliance Release Pennsylvania Is Worth Protecting, A Visual Reminder Of The People, Places & Natural Resources Worth Protecting From Environmental Devastation, Climate Change
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[3/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
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[3/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4
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[3/6/2023]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5% Compared To Last Year
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Hearing On Electric Grid Reliability: Natural Gas Continues To Have Reliability Problems; Renewables Aren’t Coming Online Fast Enough; Energy Office To Be Proposed
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[3/6/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Study Shows Renewable Energy Sources Not Coming Online Fast Enough To Replace Fossil Fuel Plants; Critical Path Analysis Started To Avoid Grid Reliability Risks
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[3/6/2023]
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Latest PJM Interconnection Electricity Capacity Auction Shows Price Decrease, But Mixed Results In PA
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[3/6/2023]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 8 Webinar On Renewable Natural Gas
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[3/6/2023]
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Sen. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal
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[3/6/2023]
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Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bills On Decommissioning Solar Energy Facilities, Limiting 1 Use Of PFAS Chemicals, Resolution Calling For Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Republicans, 4 Democrats Pass Resolution Urging Restart Of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Abandoned By Company [BTW Not In PA]
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[3/6/2023]
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Senate Committee Meets March 6 On Bill Prohibiting Elected Officials In Local Governments From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change
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[2/27/2023]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Failed To File Annual Production/Waste Generation Reports For 61,655 Wells; Attorney General Continues Investigation Of Road Dumping Wastewater
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[2/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites
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[2/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 25
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[2/27/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Abandoned Responsibility
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[2/27/2023]
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Guest Essay: Forestall Or Foresee - The Energy Transition And The Pennsylvania Legislature
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[2/27/2023]
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PA Supreme Court Sides With Citizens, Landowner Not Sunoco Pipeline On Reimbursing Legal Costs For Lawsuits Won By Citizens
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[2/27/2023]
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DEP Air Quality Committee To Hear Presentation On Methane Emissions Monitoring Overflight Study Of 91 Oil & Gas Facilities, Coal Mines, Landfills On March 9
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[2/20/2023]
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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions
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[2/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 11 to 17
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[2/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 18
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[2/20/2023]
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DEP Approves Permits For Transcontinental Gas Regional Energy Access Expansion Pipeline Project in Luzerne, Northampton, Bucks, Chester, Monroe Counties
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[2/20/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves 38 Water Use Requests For Shale Gas Well Drilling Pads In Bradford, Clearfield, Lycoming, Potter, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wyoming Counties
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[2/20/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. 21 Webinar On DEP's Federally-Funded Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[2/20/2023]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Court Motion To Prevent Unconstitutional Spending Of DCNR Oil & Gas Revenues For Nonconservation Purposes
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[2/20/2023]
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Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations
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[2/20/2023]
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York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network: 100,000+ Pro-Life Evangelicals Support Strong Oil & Gas Facility Methane Limits
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[2/13/2023]
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Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High
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[2/13/2023]
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DCED Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting Agenda Includes Discussion Of Poor Compliance Record Of Industry, Status Of Regulations Updates, Challenge To VOC/Methane Regs
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[2/13/2023]
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Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Pipeline Explosions, Uncontrolled Releases Put Spotlight On Public Health, Safety Threats Posed By Petrochemical, Natural Gas Industrial And Pipeline Infrastructure In PA
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[2/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/13/2023]
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Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
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[2/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 11
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[2/13/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations
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[2/13/2023]
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PUC Approves 48.9% Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties-- The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA
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[2/13/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Updates From Oil & Gas, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Programs Feb. 14
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[2/13/2023]
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PA Physicians For Social Responsibility Host Feb. 22 Webinar On Radioactive Contaminants From PA Oil And Gas Operations
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[2/13/2023]
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Better Path Coalition To Host Feb. 22 Webinar On How Green Is Blue Hydrogen? Made From Natural Gas
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[2/13/2023]
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Senate Environmental, Consumer Protection Committees To Hold Feb. 27 Hearing On Grid Reliability And Winter Storm Elliot
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[2/6/2023]
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EDF: Conventional Gas Wells In Allegheny National Forest Leaked Over 6 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2019; Conventional Operators Seek To Block Methane Limits
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[2/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 28 to Feb. 3
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[2/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 4
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[2/6/2023]
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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue Shell Chemical For Air Pollution Violations At Its Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[2/6/2023]
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University Of Pittsburgh Hosts Feb. 6 Webinar: Reaping What We Spill, Leak And Spew
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[1/30/2023]
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Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
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[1/30/2023]
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House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
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[1/30/2023]
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DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
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[1/30/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
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[1/30/2023]
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DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units Up To 100 Million Btu/Hour; Benefits Oil & Gas Industry
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[1/30/2023]
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DEP Releases Bid Solicitation To Plug 19 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Forest County All At Taxpayer Expense
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[1/30/2023]
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PUC: Act 13 Per Well Drilling Impact Fee To Increase For Calendar Year 2022 Nearly 28% For Unconventional Shale Gas Wells
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[1/30/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Seeking Information On Use Of Drones For Environmental Monitoring Work; Feb. 3 Online Meeting Set On Oil & Gas Facility Monitoring Project
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[1/23/2023]
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Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
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[1/23/2023]
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DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[1/23/2023]
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DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 43 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Clarion County All At Taxpayer Expense, Industry Doesn’t Pay A Dime
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[1/23/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20
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[1/23/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 21
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[1/23/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 2 Hearing On A 4.5 MGD Out-Of-Basin Diversion For Ironwood Natural Gas Power Plant In Lebanon County, 6 Other Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses
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[1/23/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Jan. 26 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing On Environmental Impacts From Development Of Unconventional Shale Gas & Oil Reserves
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[1/23/2023]
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York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters
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[1/23/2023]
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Sen. Yaw Looks For Common Ground With New Governor On Energy, Environmental Issues
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[1/23/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Diesel Mining Equipment Bill, Postpones Resolution On Restart Of Keystone XL Pipeline
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[1/16/2023]
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DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
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[1/16/2023]
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Fish & Boat Commission Investigation Of Pollution From PA General Energy Natural Gas Development Construction Site On Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek Results In Settlement Agreement
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[1/16/2023]
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DEP Releases 2 More Bid Solicitations To Plug 38 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County At Taxpayer Expense; Average Cost To Plug $95,000
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[1/16/2023]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Diversified Energy, Owner Of Over 22,500 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA, May Be Financially Insolvent
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[1/16/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13
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[1/16/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 14
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[1/16/2023]
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PJM’s Preliminary Review Of Christmas Storm Electric Generation Failures Shows Natural Gas Units Failed To Provide Power At Over Triple The Rate Of Other Generation
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[1/16/2023]
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American Petroleum Institute Unveils Plan To Prioritize U.S. Natural Gas And Oil; Target Northeast U.S. For Pipeline Development
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[1/16/2023]
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EQT, Chesapeake, Equitrans Shale Gas Companies Announce Methane Reduction Initiatives
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[1/16/2023]
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Better Path Coalition Outlines Needed Environmental, Climate Policy Changes For Incoming Shapiro Administration
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[1/16/2023]
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EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Permit In Young Twp., Jefferson County; Feb. 13 Virtual Hearing Tentatively Set
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[1/16/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds
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[1/16/2023]
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Groups Host Jan. 17 Webinar On Climate & Health Impacts Of Methane Gas From Oil & Gas Operations
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[1/9/2023]
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Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Releases Bid Solicitations To Plug 46 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Armstrong, Washington Counties At Taxpayer Expense
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[1/9/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
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[1/9/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 7
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 10 To Hear Overview Of Stream Redesignation Process, Including High Quality, Exceptional Value Streams; But What About Protection?
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[1/9/2023]
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The Feds
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[1/2/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industry Has Record Year: Cost, Criminal Convictions Up; $3.1 Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts
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[1/2/2023]
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DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’
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[1/2/2023]
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Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County
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[1/2/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 24 to 30
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[1/2/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[1/2/2023]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, North American Electric Reliability Corp. To Open Joint Inquiry Into Winter Storm Elliott
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice
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[12/26/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long
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[12/26/2022]
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Concerned Health Professionals Of PA Ask Health Professionals To Sign Letter Urging Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Protect Public Health, Environment From Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industry
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[12/26/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
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[12/26/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/26/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Oil & Gas Development, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Water Withdrawal Requests
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[12/26/2022]
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PJM Interconnection ‘Possibility Of Rotating Customer Outages Is Real’ - A Mix Of Power Plants In The System Are ‘Not Performing’ - Filing DOE Emergency Power Request [Request Ended]
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[12/26/2022]
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UGI Asks Natural Gas Customers To Conserve Energy Use Due To Regional Natural Gas Supply Constraints [Request Ended]
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[12/19/2022]
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Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty
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[12/19/2022]
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Republican Herald/Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Professes Unwarranted Faith In Shale Gas Drillers
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[12/19/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Assesses $600,000 Penalty For Illegal Disposal Of Over 1,800 Truck Loads Of Oil & Gas Waste Drill Cuttings In Fayette County
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[12/19/2022]
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Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.
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[12/19/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 10 to 16
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[12/19/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/19/2022]
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Presentations Now Available From Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov. Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health
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[12/19/2022]
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EPA Accepts Final DEP Oil/Gas Facility VOC/Methane Emission Limits Regulations For Review, Stops Imposition Of Federal Highway Funding, Other Sanctions
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[12/19/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Decarbonization Pathway Relies On Zero Emissions Resources, Energy Efficiency, Increased Electrification, Is Less Costly Than Natural Gas, Carbon Capture Options
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[12/19/2022]
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CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’
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[12/12/2022]
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DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions
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[12/12/2022]
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Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
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[12/12/2022]
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DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Dec. 15 On Radioactive Drilling Waste; Road Dumping Wastewater; Limits On Methane Emissions; More
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[12/12/2022]
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Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[12/12/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Adopts A Ban On Discharging Wastewater From Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling Operations, Strengthens Rules On Exporting, Importing Water To Support Fracking
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[12/12/2022]
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Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
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[12/12/2022]
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PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations
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[12/12/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
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[12/12/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/12/2022]
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PUC Winter Natural Gas Reliability Reports - Households Using Natural Gas Will See A Significant Increase In Heating Bills
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[12/12/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter PA Natural Gas Production Dropped For 3rd Consecutive Quarter Over 2021; PA Hub Natural Gas Price Increased 94.7% Over Last Year
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[12/12/2022]
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Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas, To Power Vehicles
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[12/12/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute Dec. 12 Webinar: Mapping A Clean Energy Transition For Southwest PA
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[12/5/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.
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[12/5/2022]
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EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Shapiro
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[12/5/2022]
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Dramatic Video From Carnegie Mellon’s Project Breathe Shows Shell Ethane Plant In Beaver County Flaring Natural Gas Due To Malfunction
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[12/5/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
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[12/5/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/28/2022]
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EQB To Meet Nov. 30 To Consider Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
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[11/28/2022]
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EDF Blog: What A Catastrophic Natural Gas Leak In Pennsylvania Means For Our Climate And Health
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[11/28/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
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[11/28/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/28/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Announces 7 Winners Of 2022 Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship; Including PA’s Laurie Barr
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[11/28/2022]
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Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign
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[11/28/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 7 On Shale Gas Fracking Wastewater Regulations
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[11/28/2022]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP's 18-Month Extension Of Air Quality Permit For Construction Of Renovo Energy Center Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Clinton County
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
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[11/28/2022]
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NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy? It’s Up To The Feds
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[11/28/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry
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[11/28/2022]
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Better Path Coalition Invites Submissions For ‘Worth Protecting’ Photo Book For New Governor, Legislators
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[11/21/2022]
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UPDATED: After 14 Days, Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Apparently Been Successful
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[11/21/2022]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June
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[11/21/2022]
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Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County
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[11/21/2022]
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Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Cryptocurrency Data Mining Operation On Shale Gas Well Pad In Elk County
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[11/21/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
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[11/21/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities
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[11/21/2022]
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IRRC Approves Final VOC/Methane Emission Limits On Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - Federal Highway Funds Still At Risk; And First State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
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[11/21/2022]
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Young Evangelicals For Climate Action Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Standard
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[11/21/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Calls Proposed EPA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Rule Good First Step
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[11/21/2022]
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PUC Alerts Consumers Utility Natural Gas Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 128%, Electric Costs Will Be Going Up By As Much As 34%; Both Driven By Cost Of Natural Gas On World Markets
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Provides Notice Of Using Coal Ash As Fill For Solar Energy Facility At Scrubgrass Generating Company, Venango County
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[11/21/2022]
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DCNR Discusses Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage Efforts, Announces $6 Million Investment In New Carbon Capture Research Facility
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[11/21/2022]
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PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund Express Concerns About Legislation Requiring DEP To Apply For Injection Well Primary For Carbon Dioxide Storage
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[11/21/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. 15 On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 3 Oil & Gas, Three Mile Island Withdrawal Renewals
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[11/14/2022]
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What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
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[11/14/2022]
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Observer-Reporter: Ongoing Water Donation Drive Helping Dozens Of Greene County Families Who Haven’t Had Clean Drinking Water Since June Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site
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[11/14/2022]
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NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
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[11/14/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[11/14/2022]
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DEP Issues Revised Chapter 102 Permit For Mariner East II Pipeline Post Construction Stormwater Management BMPs In Delaware County
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[11/14/2022]
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov. 21
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[11/14/2022]
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Reuters: Williams Urges FERC To Approve Regional Energy Access Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Affecting 6 Counties In PA
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[11/14/2022]
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EPA Unveils Proposed Methane Pollution Reduction Standards Covering Oil & Gas Facilities, Including Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[11/14/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov. 14 Webinar On Protected Zones: Setbacks From Oil & Gas Facilities In California, Colorado, PA
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[11/14/2022]
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Interested In Becoming A Master Watershed Steward? Penn State Extension Holding Information Sessions For Areas Across The State Starting In December
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[11/7/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
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[11/7/2022]
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York Dispatch Editorial: Energy Companies Are Reporting Record Profits, PA Lawmakers Don’t Need To Give Them More Tax Breaks
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[11/7/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Again Fails To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding; Fails To Report On Bonding Petitions; Or Issue Conventional Drilling Compliance Report
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[11/7/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[11/7/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
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[11/7/2022]
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On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
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[11/7/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Estimates CY 2022 Drilling Impact Fee Will Generate Record $274.8 Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record
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[11/7/2022]
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Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 9 Webinar On Methane Emission Fees Under New Federal Climate, Energy Act And Impacts On Oil & Gas Industry
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[10/31/2022]
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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
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[10/31/2022]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: State Insists On Paying Polluters
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[10/31/2022]
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DEP: PA General Energy Cited For More Water Pollution Violations, Blocking The Whole Width Of Loyalsock Creek At Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
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[10/31/2022]
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DCNR Leased 176 Acres Of Susquehanna River Submerged Land To SWN Natural Gas Production Company In Susquehanna County For $704,000
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[10/31/2022]
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Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group: Potential Impacts Of Shale Gas Development Forest Fragmentation On Tioga State Forest Birds
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[10/31/2022]
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Bill Goes To Governor Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Senate, House Again Fail To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding
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[10/31/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/31/2022]
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A Study Finding Microplastics In 100% Of Exceptional Value, High Quality, Class A Trout Streams Sampled In PA Is Disturbing To Wildlife Advocates
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[10/31/2022]
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Scranton Times/Republican Herald Editorial: Legislators Like Plastics, Expect More
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[10/31/2022]
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Penn State Research: PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Persist Through Wastewater Treatment, May Enter Crops
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[10/31/2022]
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PUC Approves 9% Increase In The Basic Monthly Bill For Typical PECO Natural Gas Division Customers; On Top Of An 103.2% Increase In Cost Of Natural Gas
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[10/31/2022]
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National Fuel Gas Requests PUC To Approve 9.2% Increase In Base Delivery Charge; Separate Cost Of Gas Up 127.8% Since May 2021
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[10/31/2022]
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Senate Committee OK’d Bills Rebranding Fossil Fuels As ‘Low Emission,’ Eliminating Incentives For EVs; Fails To End Ban On Raising Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Reports Out EHB Nominee Sarah Clark
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[10/24/2022]
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NO SPECIAL PROTECTION: The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek In Lycoming County Is Dammed And Damned
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[10/24/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules
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[10/24/2022]
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DEP/SRBC Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/24/2022]
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TribLive Editorial: State Fines Should Be Higher Than Tax Cuts To Penalize Environmental Leaks
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[10/24/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: State Lawmakers Should Adopt Rules That Preclude State Taxpayers From Subsidizing Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry
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[10/24/2022]
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Penn State's Jenn Baka Receives National Science Foundation Grant For A 5-Year Study Of The Shell Ethane Plant's Environmental And Human Impacts In Beaver County
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[10/24/2022]
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Southwestern PA Grassroots Town Halls Hosts Oct. 24 Virtual Program On Eyes On Shell Ethane Plant Campaign In Beaver County
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[10/24/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. 15-16
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[10/24/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Dangerous Course For Oil & Gas Well Emissions, Obstructionists Should Get Out Of The Way
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[10/24/2022]
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Senate Committee Reported Out Bill To Deny Counties Drilling Impact Fee Revenue If Only 99% Of The Land In Their County Available For Shale Gas Leasing; Other Bills
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[10/24/2022]
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House Committee Meets Oct. 24 To Consider Gas Royalty, Diesel Engines In Coal Mines Bills
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[10/24/2022]
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Senate Committee To Hold Oct. 27 Hearing On The Role Of LNG In U.S. Energy Security On World Stage
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[10/17/2022]
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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
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[10/17/2022]
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DEP Permit Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/17/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 3 Hearing On Water Withdraws, Including 3 Natural Gas Development Proposals
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[10/17/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Blog: 7 Questions You Should Ask Every Candidate About Shale Gas Development And Public Health
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[10/17/2022]
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U.S. EIA Projects Home Heating Costs Will Increase Most For Natural Gas - 28%, Heating Oil - 27%, Electricity - 10%, Propane 5% This Winter
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[10/17/2022]
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Oct. 25 Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Issued NOVs To Conventional Oil & Gas Companies For Abandoning 55 Wells Without Plugging Them During September Alone, A Dramatic Increase In New Well Abandonments
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[10/10/2022]
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Fall Visitors To Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Urged To Report Illegal Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 Since 2016
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[10/10/2022]
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Environmental Groups Raise Serious Compliance Issues With Olympus Energy-- Over 600 Violations On 13 DEP Permits-- In Comments On Proposed Shale Gas Drilling Pad In Allegheny County
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/10/2022]
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Washington County Community Meeting Updates Residents On PA Health & Environment Studies, Discusses Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Development
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Adds Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 12 EQB Agenda
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[10/10/2022]
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Bills Establishing Incentives For Using Fossil-Fueled Vehicles Introduced In The House, Senate; Eliminates Support For Hybrid, Electric Vehicles
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County
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[10/3/2022]
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Pitt School Of Public Health, PA Dept Of Health Abruptly Pull Out Of Oct. 5 Public Meeting They Helped Convene On Studies Looking At Links Between Natural Gas Development And Childhood Cancer Rates
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP/Susquehanna River Basin Commission Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Posts First Invitation For Bids For Plugging 79 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Allegheny, Butler, McKean, Potter Counties Under Federally-Funded Program
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[10/3/2022]
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Final Reg. Reducing Methane From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities NOT On Environmental Quality Board Agenda For Oct. 12; Will Consider Final PFOS/PFOA MCL Rule
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Now Accepting Applications For Cooking In Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchens Rebate Program; 3 Cooking In Energy Efficient Kitchens Webinars
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[10/3/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For 2022 Community Sentinel Awards
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Blog: Is Your Clean Fill Really Clean? Be Aware Of ‘Dirty Dirt’
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[10/3/2022]
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Forbes: U.S. Natural Gas Production Set New Record, But Don’t Expect Relief On Your Heating Bills [LNG Exports Link U.S. To High Prices]
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[10/3/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities For Hydrogen In Appalachia
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Tells Citizens Advisory Council Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Still Does Not Meet Residual Waste Regulations; Remains Illegal
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[9/26/2022]
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Penn State Research Links Groundwater Contamination To Areas Of Unconventional Shale Gas And Conventional Oil And Gas Drilling
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[9/26/2022]
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Study: Industry Data Shows Hazardous Air Pollutants Are ‘Ubiquitous’ In The Natural Gas Transmission System; More Justification For Robust Leak Prevention Programs
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Finalizing First Bid Packages To Plug 249 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Under New Federal Taxpayer Funded Well Plugging Program
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[9/26/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior Notified DEP A Republican Bill Allowed To Become Law In July May Block Funding For New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[9/26/2022]
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House Committee Fails To Address $70 Million In Penalties On Natural Gas Pipelines Or Real Concerns Of People Living Near Gas Production & Distribution Facilities
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/26/2022]
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Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh: News Coverage, Recorded Sessions
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[9/26/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Touts PA's Leadership In Clean Energy Transition At Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh
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[9/26/2022]
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Team Pennsylvania, Co-Chaired By Gov. Wolf, Issues Road Map On Hydrogen Development, Carbon Management In PA
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[9/26/2022]
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PA Environmental Council: Clean Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Can Be Part Of A Comprehensive Decarbonization Strategy: Responsibly Deployed With Environmental Integrity, Accountability And Equity
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[9/26/2022]
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CFA Announces Investment Of $18.2 Million In 130 Recreation, Flood Protection, Environmental Restoration Projects Funded By Act 13 Impact Fee
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[9/19/2022]
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects PA Senate Republican Caucus Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP, Fish & Boat Commission Investigate Multiple, Continuing Water Pollution Discharges From PGE Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Site On Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
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[9/19/2022]
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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/19/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host Nov. 15-16 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference
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[9/19/2022]
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University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
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[9/19/2022]
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Inquirer Guest Essay: DEP Needs To Evaluate Health Impacts Of Evaporating Leachate From A Westmoreland Landfill Accepting Shale Gas Drilling Waste
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[9/19/2022]
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PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Professional Development Webinar Oct. 18 - Setback Distances For Unconventional Shale Gas Well Pads - How Close Is Too Close?
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[9/19/2022]
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American Lung Association Report Details Health And Environmental Impacts Of Fuel-Burning Appliances At Home
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[9/19/2022]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 19 Info Meeting On Carbon Capture Technology
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[9/12/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Companies Accelerating Pace Of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them Threatening To Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind
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[9/12/2022]
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Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County
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[9/12/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold Sept. 20 ‘Wellhead To Stovetop’ Hearing On Natural Gas In PA; Will They Mention $70 Million In Pipeline Penalties Assessed So Far?
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[9/12/2022]
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Natural Gas, Hazardous Liquids Pipelines Are NOT Required To Carry Insurance Or Show They Can Pay For Damages If They Explode, Leak Or Kill Someone
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[9/12/2022]
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DEP Public Notices -- Oil & Gas Industry Facilities
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[9/12/2022]
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WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas
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[9/12/2022]
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Explainer: So Why Does A Susquehanna County Gas Company Have To Raise Rates 33.2% When Susquehanna County Is The #1 Shale Gas Producer In PA?
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[9/12/2022]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Oct. 5 In-Person, Virtual Public Meeting On PA Health Studies Of Natural Gas Development In Southwest PA
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[9/12/2022]
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New Book Edited By Researchers From 3 Pittsburgh Universities Now Available On The Environmental Impacts From The Development Of Unconventional Oil & Gas Reserves
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[9/12/2022]
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University Of Pittsburgh School Of Public Health Recruiting Families In Southwest PA For Study Of Childhood Cancer, One Of 3 Studies Of Potential Health Impacts Linked To Shale Natural Gas Development
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[9/5/2022]
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Only 15 Out Of 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Who Abandoned Wells Without Plugging Them Were Fined By DEP; Small Penalties No Deterrent To Future Abandonments
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[9/5/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021
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[9/5/2022]
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DEP: Wastes Generated By The New Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program Will NOT Be Exempt From Hazardous Waste Regulations, Unlike Wastes From Active Wells
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[9/5/2022]
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Penn State To Hold Cancer And The Environment Symposium Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included
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[9/5/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Monitors Hydrologic Conditions Across The Basin; Including Oil & Gas Operations
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[9/5/2022]
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Environmental Hearing Board Rules Renovo Energy Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Limits On Sulfur Dioxide, VOC Emissions Set Too High
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[8/29/2022]
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Creating New Brownfields: Oil & Gas Well Drillers Notified DEP They Are Cleaning Up Soil & Water Contaminated With Chemicals Harmful To Human Health, Aquatic Life At 272 Locations In PA
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[8/29/2022]
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Bay Journal: New Abandoned Wells - More Concerns Emerge Over Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/29/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior Awards PA $25 Million In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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[8/29/2022]
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DEP To Hold Oct. 5 Virtual Hearing On Proposed Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Regional Energy Access Expansion Project In Eastern PA
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[8/29/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Impoundments By Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC In Washington County
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[8/29/2022]
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State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications For Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Funded Emergency Services Grants
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[8/29/2022]
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The Feds
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[8/22/2022]
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PA Supreme Court: Accounting Required For Environmental Rights Amendment Trust Fund Money From State Forest Oil & Gas Drilling
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[8/22/2022]
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Grant Township Charter Banning Drilling Wastewater Injection Wells Struck Down By State Court; Decision Appealed To PA Supreme Court
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[8/22/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment
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[8/22/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Driller Compliance Review Will Go Back At Least 5 Years; Whether It Will Be Public Document Not Decided
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[8/22/2022]
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Yale School Of Public Health Study Found PA Children 2 To 3 Times More Likely To Be Diagnosed With Leukemia If They Live Near Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities
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[8/22/2022]
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Inside Climate News: Q/A With Eliza Griswold Pulitzer Winning Author Of Deep Dive Into Fracking In PA, How Extractive Industries ‘Gut’ Communities
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[8/22/2022]
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New Poll: Strong Majority Of PA Voters Support Climate Action To Cut Carbon and Methane Pollution
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[8/22/2022]
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PA PUC: Cost Of Natural Gas Provided By Major Utilities In PA Increased As Much As 154% Over Last Year
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[8/22/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports Decline In PA Natural Gas Production For 2nd Quarter In A Row For First Time; But An Increase In New Wells Drilled
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[8/22/2022]
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New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React
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[8/22/2022]
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Climate Wire: New Federal Climate, Energy Law Includes New $700 Million Grant Program To Mitigate Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/22/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities For Hydrogen In Appalachia
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[8/15/2022]
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PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 18 On Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater; Methane Regs, Conventional Regs, Well Plugging, More
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[8/15/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Setback Distances And The Regulations We Need To Protect Public Health From Oil & Gas Facilities
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[8/15/2022]
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Ohio River Valley Institute: 6% Population Loss, 3.3% Job Loss In PA's 'Natural Gas' Counties Show Misplaced Faith In Economic Benefits Of Oil & Gas
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[8/15/2022]
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PUC: 4 Major Electric Utilities Have Double Digit Electric Price Increases Coming Sept. 1 Caused By Spike In Natural Gas, Energy Costs, Hot Weather
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[8/15/2022]
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PA Solar Center Aug. 19 Webinar: A Brighter Future - Solar Energy For PA Schools; Save Millions, Avoid Energy Cost Spikes
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[8/15/2022]
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House Hearing: Development Of Hydrogen Hub In Western PA Offers Benefits, Obstacles
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[8/8/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling: An Industrial Machine Moving Across The PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities & Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes
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[8/8/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Convicted Of Criminal Charges Related To Construction Of Mariner East 2 & Revolution Natural Gas/Liquids Pipelines In PA
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[8/8/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Over 14 Miles Of 16-Inch & 24-Inch Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Project In Susquehanna County
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[8/8/2022]
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DEP Inviting Stakeholders To Participate In Workgroups On New Federal Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program
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[8/8/2022]
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TribLive Guest Essay: EPA Must Address Natural Gas Leaks That Are Harming Our Children
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[8/8/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Asthma And Air Pollution From Natural Gas Drilling/Facilities
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[8/8/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Disapprove Final Reg. To Reduce VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities Risking $500 Million In Federal Highway Funds
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[8/8/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Public Health Impacts Of Blue Hydrogen Production, Health, Environmental Protections Needed
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[8/8/2022]
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30+ PA Environmental Advocates Release Shared Vision For Pennsylvania's Environment & Communities As A Guide For Candidates For Governor, Senate, House
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[8/1/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards
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[8/1/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
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[8/1/2022]
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Environmental Health Project Profile: Dr. John Stolz, Duquesne University - Monitoring Impact Of Shale Gas Extraction On Private Water Wells, Groundwater In SW PA
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[8/1/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine
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[8/1/2022]
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16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July
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[8/1/2022]
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Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused By Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Makes It Unsuitable For A Dust Suppressant, Washes Right Off The Road Into The Ditch
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[8/1/2022]
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House Committee Meets Aug. 2 To Disapprove Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Blocking The Rule Will Mean Loss Of Federal Highway Funds
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[8/1/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Oct. 4 Harnessing Hydrogen: Exploring Local & Regional Opportunities In Appalachia
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[7/25/2022]
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Gov. Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions
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[7/25/2022]
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DEP Concerned About Impact Of New Law Blocking Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding On New Federal Well Plugging Funds, Regulating Waste Injection Wells
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[7/25/2022]
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IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities; DEP Moves To Avoid Federal Highway Funding Sanctions
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[7/25/2022]
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Natural Gas Producer Olympus Energy Earns Premier Environmental Performance Ratings From Project Canary
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[7/25/2022]
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Guest Essay: Key To Lower Energy Prices And Energy Freedom Is Diversifying Electricity Generation With Solar, Renewable Energy
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[7/25/2022]
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DEP To Hold 2 Hearings On Air Quality Permit For Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Leachate Evaporation System
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[7/25/2022]
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Sen. Yaw To Deny Counties Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue If They Make Only 99% Of Their Land Area Available For Shale Gas Development
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[7/25/2022]
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The Feds
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[7/18/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets July 25 To Hear Presentation On Penn State Study On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[7/18/2022]
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Bradford Era: 24-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline Ruptures, Explodes In McKean County Causing Wildfire; Force Majeure Declared In 2 States
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[7/18/2022]
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EQB: DEP Continues Review Of Oil & Gas Well Bonding Petitions; Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reg Coming Soon; Approves Municipal Waste Recycling General Permit
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[7/18/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Approve Letter To IRRC Sets Up Disapproval Of Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Reg. Risking Millions In Federal Highway Funds
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[7/18/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[7/18/2022]
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Guest Essay: Gov. Wolf, Don’t Give Money To The Oil Industry
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[7/11/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Now Has To Decide To Hold Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable, Or Create A $5.1 Billion Cleanup Liability For Taxpayers
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council: Without A Veto Of HB 2644, PA's Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Problem May Be All But Permanent
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[7/11/2022]
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DEP Issues 20% More NOVs To Oil & Gas Well Drillers For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2nd Quarter
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council/Environmental Defense Fund + 12 Other Groups: HB 2644 Unjustifiably Limits Bonding For Oil & Gas Wells, Risks Eligibility For Federal Well Plugging Funds
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[7/11/2022]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Urges Senate To Vote Against The HB 2644 Subsidy & Bailout For Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers - ‘Stop Rewarding Industry For Not Being Responsible’
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[7/11/2022]
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At The Request Of The Natural Gas Industry, House, Senate Give Final Approval To Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[7/11/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets July 19 To Hear Presentations On Carbon Capture/Sequestration, Chapter 105 Regulatory Changes
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[7/11/2022]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In June
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[7/11/2022]
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House Committee Meets July 11 On Letter To IRRC Opposing Final Oil & Gas Facility Methane Reduction Regulation
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[7/4/2022]
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Bay Journal: Penn State Study: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread On Pennsylvania Roads Bad For Health, Land
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[7/4/2022]
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Republicans On Senate Committee Report Out Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[7/4/2022]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Testifies In Congress On Need To Require Real Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding Reform, Defend Our Children’s Health & Taxpayers By Fixing Oil & Gas Facility Methane Leaks
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[7/4/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Change To United Refining Company Air Quality Permit Adding Emission Limit For Sulfur Dioxide In Warren
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[6/27/2022]
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Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[6/27/2022]
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New General Assembly-Mandated General Permit Allows Unconventional Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facilities To ‘Pop-Up’ Within 300 Feet Of You Without Notice
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[6/27/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 Million Growth In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Collected In 2023; Lowest Ever Effective Tax Rate Of 0.6%
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[6/27/2022]
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New Muhlenberg Poll Finds 77% Of Pennsylvanians Believe Climate Change Is A Serious Problem; 55% Believe Human Actions Are To Blame
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[6/27/2022]
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Appalachian Voices: Biden Administration Announces Programs Included In The Justice40 Initiative From 4 Agencies To Help Disadvantaged Communities
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[6/20/2022]
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Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? House To Take Up Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability
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[6/20/2022]
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EQB Adopts Part I Of Reg. Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; IRRC Considers July 21
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[6/20/2022]
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Post-Gazette Editorial: PA Republican Lawmakers Poised To Cost PA Billions In Highway Funding At Behest Of Oil & Gas Industry
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[6/20/2022]
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Oil & Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Bill Introduced In The House
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[6/20/2022]
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Penn State Beaver Seeking Volunteers For June 23 Focus Group On Energy Development, Groundwater Quality & Public Health In Western PA
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[6/20/2022]
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PUC Distributes $234 Million In 2021 Revenue From Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee; Represents Lowest Effective Tax Rate On Natural Gas Companies On Record - IFO
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[6/20/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Hear Update June 21 On Oil & Gas Advisory Board Activities; Discuss Legacy Issues Report; Transition Paper
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[6/20/2022]
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PA Dept. Of Agriculture Temporarily Suspends Requirement For 2% Biodiesel For Out-Of-State Fuel Sold In PA In Response To Rolling Outages Of Diesel Fuel
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[6/13/2022]
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On-Site Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Disposal Plans Making Hundreds Of Drilling Sites Waste Dumps
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[6/13/2022]
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Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act
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[6/13/2022]
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House Republicans Side With Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers, Against Taxpayers, To Continue Pre-1985 Exemption From Well Bonding, Prevent Any Increase In Plugging Bond Amounts
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[6/13/2022]
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Senate Republicans, At Request Of Natural Gas Industry, OK Bill To Take Away Protections In Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities
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[6/13/2022]
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DEP Releases Final Guidance On Handling Radioactive Waste From Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Operations
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[6/13/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office: Cost Of Gasoline, Energy Utility Bills Up 33% From Last Year
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[6/13/2022]
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AG Shapiro Charges Energy Corporation Of America/Greylock, 2 Employees With Environmental Crimes Involving Leaks At Oil & Gas Well Sites In Clearfield, Greene Counties
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[6/6/2022]
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DEP Advises 18 Municipalities Where Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Occurring The Practice Is Illegal And Considered Waste Disposal
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[6/6/2022]
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Who Is Protecting Taxpayers? House Committee Meets June 7 On Bills To Preempt Any Increase In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding Amounts, Give Away Plugging Contracts With No Regard For Cost
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[6/6/2022]
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Senate Committee Meets June 8 On Bills To Change Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities, Deep Mine Safety Requirements
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[6/6/2022]
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Senate Committee Meets June 7 On Bill To Prohibit Communities From Moving To Clean, Cheaper Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[6/6/2022]
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EQB Meets June 14 On Revised Final Regulation Reducing Methane Emissions From Just Unconventional (Shale Gas) Wells, Facilities; Working On Conventional Reg.
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[6/6/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance June 15 Webinar - Proposed EPA Rule Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions
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[5/30/2022]
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New Penn State Study Finds Runoff From Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumped On Unpaved Roads Contains Pollutants That Exceed Human-Health, Environmental Standards
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[5/30/2022]
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DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority
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[5/30/2022]
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Earthworks, FracTracker Alliance Release New Online Oil & Gas Threat Map; Find Natural Gas Facilities, Wells Near You
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[5/30/2022]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports Lowest Quarterly Natural Gas Production In PA Since 4th Quarter Of 2020, First Decrease In Production Growth Since 2018
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[5/30/2022]
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Pittsburgh International Airport, CNX Announce Strategy To Reduce Emissions, Costs For Transportation, Other Industries
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[5/30/2022]
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Clean Air Council Announces Voluntary Settlement With Energy Transfer Over Air Permits For Marcus Hook Natural Gas Liquids Plant
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[5/23/2022]
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DEP Plans To Present A ‘Narrower Version’ Of Final Oil & Gas Methane Emission Reduction Reg. To EQB At June Meeting
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[5/23/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Aggressive Push To Secure Clean Hydrogen Hub In PA
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[5/23/2022]
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Guest Essay: When People Have To Choose Health Or Jobs, Everyone Loses - The View From Rachel Carson’s Homestead In Allegheny County
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[5/23/2022]
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University Of Houston: Shale Gas Wastewater Could Be Substantial Source Of Lithium
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[5/23/2022]
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House Local Govt. Committee Meets May 25 On Bill To Prohibit Communities From Moving To Clean, Cheaper Energy Sources To Address Climate Change
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[5/23/2022]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds June 2 Hearing On Health Impacts Of Shale Gas Infrastructure In Allegheny County
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[5/16/2022]
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Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads
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[5/16/2022]
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Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest
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[5/16/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA's Low-Producing Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Are Leaking Too Much Methane, The Industry Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Trash
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[5/16/2022]
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DEP Reschedules Environmental Quality Board Meetings June Thru October
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[5/16/2022]
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Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality
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[5/16/2022]
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Clean Air Council Hosts May 18 Webinar On Oil & Gas Threat Map By Earthworks
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[5/9/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Dispose Of Drill Cuttings By ‘Dusting’ - Blowing Them On The Ground, And In The Air Around Drill Sites
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[5/9/2022]
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Post-Gazette: DEP Evaluating Whether To Resubmit Oil & Gas Methane Rule To EQB To Address Concerns About A Separate Conventional Oil & Gas Rule
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[5/9/2022]
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Republican Senators Introduce Bill To Deregulate Oil & Gas Industry, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Open State Forests To Drilling, Withdrawn From RGGI
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[5/9/2022]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets May 18 To Hear Presentation On DEP’s Expanded Conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program
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[5/9/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Meets May 18 On Vanadium Standard, Coal Refuse Disposal Regulations
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Latest Penn State Report On Environmental Impact Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater Will Have ‘Immediate,’ ‘Large,’ ‘Intense’ Impact In PA, Nationally
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Draft Updates Coming To Regs. On Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Disposal As Early As July; Waste Reporting Changes Invited
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[5/2/2022]
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Financial Assurance, Plugging Regulations To Be Reviewed To Prevent New Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells Under Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Plugging Program
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP: Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Prompting Review Of On-Site Disposal Options For Oil & Gas Well Plugging Wastes; Radioactive Waste Disposal
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[5/2/2022]
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DEP Not Seeing Uptick In Oil & Gas Drilling; Expects $8 Million Deficit In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program
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[5/2/2022]
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Physicians For Social Responsibility Release 8th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings On Risks, Harms Of Fracking And Oil & Gas Infrastructure
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[5/2/2022]
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House Republicans Move Solar, Wind Bonding Bill; Fail To Plug The $1.8 Billion Hole In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Bonding; Opposed Regs Making Natural Gas Pipelines Safer, Reducing Methane Emissions
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[4/25/2022]
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Attorney General’s Office Reported To Be Investigating Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Illegally Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater
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[4/25/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Continued To Illegally Road Dump Over 580,000 Gallons Of Drilling Wastewater In 2021
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[4/25/2022]
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DEP To Host Online Information Event On Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program April 28
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[4/25/2022]
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DEP Update On United Refining Company Naphtha Storage Tank Roof Failure In Warren
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[4/25/2022]
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EPA Releases White Paper For Comment On Reducing Climate Pollution From New Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation
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[4/18/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Has Spill Reporting, Funding For Well Plugging; Permit Fees; Carbon Capture; New Regs On April 25 Agenda
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[4/18/2022]
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UPDATED with Agenda/Location/Remote Access: DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets April 21 On Conventional Drilling Issues
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[4/18/2022]
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New Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy Lacks Resources To Plug Wells, Including 22,507 Wells In PA
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[4/18/2022]
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DEP Signed 2 Consent Agreements With PBF Petroleum Terminal On The Schuylkill River In Philadelphia For Storage Tank, Clean Streams Law Violations; Penalties Total $1,050,000
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[4/18/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Center For Energy Policy & Management Hosts April 20 Webinar On Hydrogen: The Future Of Clean Energy?
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[4/18/2022]
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Dog Whistles: House Republicans Pass Bills Adding More Bureaucracy To DEP Permits Reviews; Pretending To Increase Natural Gas Production In PA
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[4/18/2022]
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Sen. Yaw To Introduce Bill Promoting Carbon Capture, Utilization And Sequestration
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[4/11/2022]
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Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them
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[4/11/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For Lackawanna Energy Center Gas-Fired Power Plant In Lackawanna County At May 25 Hearing
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[4/11/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host April 20 Webinar On Clean Energy And Energy Independence
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[4/11/2022]
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6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: Number Of New Natural Gas Wells Drilled In First Quarter Declined By Over 25% In PA Compared To 2021, 2020
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[4/4/2022]
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Bay Journal: Ukraine War Triggers Push For More Fracking In Pennsylvania
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[4/4/2022]
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Federal Court Hears Senate Republican Caucus Appeal For Standing In Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Ban On Fracking
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[4/4/2022]
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Republican Chair Of House Environmental Committee Believes Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure Projects ‘Just Need To Be Ignored And Politically Ran Over’
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[4/4/2022]
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Majority Chair Of Senate Committee Calls Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure ‘Radical Environmentalists,’ Arguments By Supporters Of RGGI ‘Hysteria’
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[4/4/2022]
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6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: ‘Drillers Continue To Return Cash To Shareholders… Rather Than Boost Production’
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[4/4/2022]
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Republicans On House Committee Move Bills To Unleash Natural Gas Industry In Pennsylvania, Kill RGGI
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[4/4/2022]
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Senate Committees Hear Familiar Pro/Con Comments On Economic, Environmental Impacts Of EQB’s Final Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants - RGGI
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[3/28/2022]
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A Voluntary Settlement Of An EHB Appeal By All Parties Requires Developers Of A Bradford County Liquified Natural Gas Facility To Apply For New Air Quality Permit
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[3/28/2022]
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Republican House Bill Contains Natural Gas Industry Wish List Of Measures To Expand Natural Gas Drilling, Subsidize Pipeline Expansion, Automatically Approve Well Permits, Preempt Local Governments
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[3/28/2022]
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Republican Rep. Fritz Introduces Bills To Unilaterally Amend Delaware River Basin Commission Compact To End Fracking Moratorium
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[3/28/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 30 Webinar On Two Approaches To Reducing Natural Gas Methane Emissions
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[3/28/2022]
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U.S. EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2022 - Renewables Fastest Growing Energy; Falling Costs Means Robust Competition With Natural Gas; Electricity Fastest Growing Energy Source In Buildings
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[3/28/2022]
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Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen
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[3/28/2022]
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Governor’s Office Posts Updated Agency-By-Agency Agenda Of Regulations In Development
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[3/28/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold March 28 Infomercial On Oil & Gas Byproducts - Could We Live Without Them?
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[3/28/2022]
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6th Oil/Natural Gas Shock: U.S. - European Commission Agreement Calls For Reducing Demand For All Natural Gas And Accelerating Deployment Of Clean Energy Measures
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[3/21/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Approves Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations; Conventional Drillers Oppose
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[3/21/2022]
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Kurt Klapkowski Serving As DEP Acting Deputy Secretary For Oil & Gas Management
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[3/21/2022]
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6th Oil/Gas Shock: Listen To What Europe Says They Need - Not What The U.S. Oil/Gas Industry Wants
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[3/21/2022]
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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania And Virginia Face Fight Of Their Lives - [What The Coal, Natural Gas Industries Want In PA]
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[3/21/2022]
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Guest Essay: PA Republican Suggestions To Make Us More Dependent On Fossil Fuels Will Not Secure Our Energy Future
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[3/21/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters: Let's Have A Cleaner, Healthier Energy Future For Pennsylvania
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[3/21/2022]
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Vesper Energy Developing 200 MW Solar Energy Project In Lawrence County
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[3/21/2022]
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Community College Of Allegheny County Flipped The Switch On Completed Solar Energy Installation
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[3/21/2022]
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University Of Pittsburgh Announces Climate Action Plan To Go Carbon Neutral By 2037
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[3/21/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold March 28 Hearing: Oil & Gas Byproducts - Could We Live Without Them?
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[3/21/2022]
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Rescheduled: Senate Committees Will Now Hold March 29 Hearing On Economic Impacts Of DEP Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants
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[3/14/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry And Their Politicians Are Pushing Hard To Hook Us To Volatile Foreign Energy Markets Where There Is No Limit On What They Can Charge You
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[3/14/2022]
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New European Commission REPowerEU Plan Does Not Justify Dramatic Increase In Drilling, Gas Infrastructure Build Out PA Natural Gas Politicians Calling For
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[3/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Our Addiction To Fossil Fuels Fuel War: ‘Only Truly Addicted People Chase After Their Next Hit With Singular Focus As The Consequences Of Their Addiction Pile Up Around Them’
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[3/14/2022]
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2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA
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[3/7/2022]
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12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties
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[3/7/2022]
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DEP Budget Hearing: 40% Of Unconventional Natural Gas Well Permits Issued By DEP Were Not Used By Drillers
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[3/7/2022]
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Republican Senators Propose Gas Drilling On At Least 22,000 More Acres Of State Forest, Mining 920 Acres Of Coal Under A State Park To Pay For DCNR Infrastructure Backlog
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[3/7/2022]
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Environmental Quality Board Meets March 15 To Consider Final Rule Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[3/7/2022]
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Penn State Researchers To Study Links Between Fracking, Water Contamination In Southwestern PA; Follows Similar Study In NE PA That Found Water Contamination
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[3/7/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Holding 3 Webinars On Using Maps & Data To Empower Action Starting March 8
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[3/7/2022]
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Register Now For 2022 Shale Network Workshop In State College May 12-13
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[3/7/2022]
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PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0; True Energy Independence
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 60 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued 10 NOVs Or More For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In One Year
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[2/28/2022]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 6.8% In 2021
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[2/28/2022]
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True Energy Independence Means More Renewables, Not Letting Foreign Markets Or Despots Dictate What We Pay For Energy
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[2/28/2022]
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U.S. DOE Hosts March 30 Webinar On Repurposing Fossil Energy Assets
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[2/21/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Pay Only $46,100 Of The $10,600,000 It Costs DEP To Regulate That Industry; Taxpayers May Be Asked To Pay The Difference
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[2/14/2022]
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DEP To Prohibit Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers With Unresolved Environmental Violations From Getting Conventional Well Plugging Contracts; 133 Companies Interested In Doing Well Plugging Work
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[2/14/2022]
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Representative Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Compares Their History In PA To The Holy Bible - But He Left Out Some Parts
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[2/14/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts Feb. 15 Webinar On Proposed Increase In Oil & Gas Well Bond Amounts To Protect Taxpayers From Paying To Plug Wells Conventional, Unconventional Drillers Abandon
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[2/14/2022]
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Scott Perry No Longer DEP Deputy For Oil & Gas Management
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6% Deficit, In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program To EQB Feb. 15; Conventional Drillers Only Pay 0.4% Of Their Regulatory Costs
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP Receives First $25 Million From Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law For Plugging Oil & Gas Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Sunoco Pipeline LNG Pumping Station Air Permit In West Goshen Twp., Chester County
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[2/7/2022]
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Guest Essay: Environmentalists Say 'No' To Nacero Natural Gas To Gasoline Refinery
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[2/7/2022]
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Joel Burcat To Release Another Environmental Legal Thriller: Strange Fire
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[2/7/2022]
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Washington & Jefferson College Hosts Feb. 16 Webinar On First in the World: An Airport That Generates Its Own Power [Spoiler, It’s Pittsburgh]
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[2/7/2022]
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PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Feb. 9 Webinar On Methane Emissions And Our Health
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[2/7/2022]
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House Environmental Committee To Hold Feb. 7 Information Meeting On DEP’s Oil & Gas Well Plugging Program For Wells Abandon By Conventional Drillers
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[2/7/2022]
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PA State Treasurer Garrity Calls On Biden To Withdraw Fed Nominee Because She Advocates For Sustainable Investments And Is A Threat To Oil, Gas, Coal Companies
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[2/7/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Interior: Comments Invited On American Conservation & Stewardship Atlas To Track Stewardship, Restoration Efforts
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[1/31/2022]
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DCNR Bans Use Of Oil & Gas Wastewater On Its Over 6,500 Miles Of Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads
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[1/31/2022]
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Good Samaritan Proposal Would Plug An Oil & Gas Well Abandoned By A Conventional Driller In Westmoreland County
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[1/31/2022]
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At The Request Of The Natural Gas Industry, House Republicans Pass Bill To Stop Communities From Adopting All-Electric Building Codes
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[1/24/2022]
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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds
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[1/24/2022]
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IFO: 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue $233.8 Million; Still Short Of 2018 Revenue Of $251.8 Million
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[1/24/2022]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Adds Feb. 3 Hearing On Proposed Fracking Wastewater Regulations
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[1/24/2022]
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Post-Gazette Editorial: Sale Of Last Coal-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County Good Sign For Post-Coal Economy
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[1/24/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts Jan. 25 Lunch & Learn Program With CMU's Nicholas Muller On Cumulative Impacts Of Shale Gas Boom
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[1/24/2022]
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EPA Invites Proposals On Research Into Drivers & Environmental Impacts Of Energy Transitions In Underserved Communities
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[1/24/2022]
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U.S. EIA: U.S. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
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[1/17/2022]
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PA Professional Geologists: Feb. 16 Webinar: Dust Suppression With Oil & Gas Produced Water Featuring Author Of Penn State Study Finding Increased Cancer Risks With Road Spreading
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP Proposes New, Limited General Permit For Processing, Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Wastes; No Chemical Concentration Limits Or Public Review Of Individual Permit Uses Are Included
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 7 Orphan Oil & Gas Wells In Warren County
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[1/10/2022]
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DEP Draft Rule Does Not Ban Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Industry Objects To Waste Reporting Provisions
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[1/10/2022]
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Sign Better Path Coalition Petition: DEP - Keep ALL Oil & Gas Wastewater Off Our Roads!
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[1/10/2022]
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Better Path Coalition Presents Jan. 12 Webinar On Road Spreading Drilling Wastewater, Why Hasn't It Stopped?
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[1/10/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drillers Press DEP To Reduce Environmental Safeguards For Drilling And Treat Them The Same As Wind, Solar Energy Facilities
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[1/10/2022]
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. Stands Up To Natural Gas Interests
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[1/10/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: Feb. 22 Shale Gas & Public Health: Translating Science Into Policy Public Health Summit
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[1/10/2022]
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Sen. Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050
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[1/3/2022]
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In 2021 Initiatives By The Biden Administration, Congress Make Historic Investments In Cleaning Up PA’s Environment; How To Invest $11 Billion Remains Up In The Air
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[1/3/2022]
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DEP Lists 84 Townships As ‘Waste Facilities’ Where Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Has Been Disposed Of By Road Spreading; Municipalities Need To Do Their Due Diligence
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[12/20/2021]
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Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations
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[12/20/2021]
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Better Path Coalition Report: How To Close The Loophole Allowing Uncontrolled Road Spreading Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater & Fix Oil and Gas Waste Reporting System
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[12/20/2021]
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PA-Based Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Keeping Up The Pressure Following Historic Rights Of Nature Victory In Ecuador
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[12/20/2021]
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Now On Demand: Physicians For Social Responsibility-PA Host Virtual Conference On Health Hazards Of Oil & Gas Industry In Pennsylvania
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[12/13/2021]
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DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. 16 On Road Spreading Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Other Issues
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[12/13/2021]
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Now On Demand: Videos From 2021 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference; Including Preliminary Results Of A Penn State Study On Health Risks From Road Spreading Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[12/13/2021]
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Evangelical Environmental Network Disappointed In Final DEP Draft Reg. To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[12/13/2021]
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Bay Journal: Massive Aid On Way To Plug Pollution From Oil, Gas Wells In Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Act
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[12/13/2021]
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FracTracker Alliance, Halt The Harm Network To Honor 4 With Sentinel Awards At Dec. 9 Program
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[12/13/2021]
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Penn State: Switch From Coal To Natural Gas Reducing Sulfur Dioxide Emissions, Can Improve Water Quality In Some Streams
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[12/13/2021]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: Gas Industry Has Succeeded Coal & Railroad Industries In Making PA General Assembly A Nearly Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
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[12/6/2021]
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PA Supreme Court: UGI Can Be Held Liable For Taking Natural Gas Rights Around A Tioga County Natural Gas Storage Field To Form A Proposed 3,000 Acre Buffer
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[12/6/2021]
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Environmental Defense Fund Experts Testify At EPA Hearings On Proposed Federal Rules Reducing Oil & Gas Industry Methane Emissions
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[11/29/2021]
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PUC: Electric Utilities To Increase Cost Of Electricity They Provide To Non-Shopping Customers Dec. 1, Some As High As 50%; Increases Driven By Price Of Natural Gas
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[11/29/2021]
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IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Prices Increased 187.1% In Last Year, Higher Than Henry Hub Price
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[11/29/2021]
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PUC Natural Gas Winter Reliability Reports - Heating Bills Will Be Significantly More Expensive This Winter
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[11/22/2021]
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A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards
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[11/22/2021]
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Preliminary Results From New Penn State Study Find Increased Cancer, Health Risks From Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Especially For Children
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[11/22/2021]
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New Pitt-Duquesne Study Shows Higher Exposures To Radiation In Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater When Appropriate Exposure Scenarios Are Used
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[11/22/2021]
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Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, FracTracker Alliance Call On Citizens To Report Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads
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[11/22/2021]
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Trout Unlimited: What Do Pennsylvania's Dirt And Gravel Roads Have To Do With Trout?
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[11/22/2021]
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The Allegheny Front/Environmental Health News: Pollution’s Mental Toll: How Air, Water And Climate Pollution Shape Our Mental Health
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[11/22/2021]
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EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
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[11/22/2021]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition Challenges EQB Authority To Increase Bond Amounts For Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
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[11/22/2021]
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DCNR Signs Oil & Gas Lease Agreement For 198.5 Acres Of Publicly-Owned Streambeds In Wyoming County For $794,000 + Royalties
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[11/22/2021]
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DRBC Extends Comment Period On Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From Fracking Operations & Ban On Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products
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[11/22/2021]
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WPCAMR: New Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Addresses PA’s #1 Water Pollution Problem; Questions About What Projects Can Be Funded
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[11/22/2021]
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Evangelical Environmental Network: Signing Of Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Good News For Our Children, Communities And Country
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[11/22/2021]
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EPA Sets Nov. 30, Dec. 1 Hearings On Proposal To Cut Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[11/15/2021]
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Bay Journal: Dirt Roads & Drilling Wastewater - Dustup Rises Over Health Issues
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[11/15/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks The PA Supreme Court To Overturn Lower Court Ruling Challenging DCNR's State Forest Plan Allowing Gas Drilling
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[11/15/2021]
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U.S. EIA Short Term Energy Outlook Sees Continued High Energy Costs Into 2022, Decreases Later; Growth Of Renewables; Carbon Dioxide Still Short Of 2019 Levels
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[11/8/2021]
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DEP To Recommend Environmental Quality Board Accept Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding Nov. 16; Also Considers Proposed PFOA/PFOS MCL Standard
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[11/8/2021]
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Guest Essay: Making Sense Of A Volatile Energy Market
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[11/8/2021]
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PJM And Members Prepare To Serve Winter Electricity Demand; Adds Changes Dealing With Coal, Natural Gas Issues
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[11/8/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal Air Permit For Invenergy Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant In Allegheny County
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[11/1/2021]
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The Science Says: Spreading Conventional Drilling Wastewater On Dirt & Gravel Roads Can Harm Aquatic Life, Poses Health Risks To Humans - And It Damages The Roads
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[11/1/2021]
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DRBC Posts Draft Regulations Covering Discharges Of Wastewater From High Volume Hydraulic Fracking Oil And Gas Drilling Operations; Bans Road Dumping Of Wastewater & Co-Products
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[11/1/2021]
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Guest Essay: Heed The Warning - A Few Extremists Threaten PA's Energy Leadership
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[11/1/2021]
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Nacero To Build A Natural Gas - Renewable Natural Gas To Gasoline Production Plant in Luzerne County
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[11/1/2021]
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ReImagine Appalachia: Updated Build Back Better Framework Sets Stage For Job-Creating Investment in Healthier, More Prosperous Future for Appalachia
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[10/25/2021]
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How The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry Eliminated Any Restrictions On The Disposal Of Millions Of Gallons Of Its Wastewater On PA’s Dirt & Gravel Roads
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[10/25/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On Plugging Abandoned Well In Potter County
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[10/25/2021]
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PUC Approves UGI Renewable Natural Gas Pilot Project
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[10/18/2021]
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Coalition Launches Initiative To Promote Safer Setback Distances From Oil & Gas Drilling, Infrastructure
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[10/18/2021]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020
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[10/18/2021]
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DOE's Roosevelt Project Case Study Shows How Southwestern PA Can Thrive In A Low-Carbon Energy Future
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[10/18/2021]
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CONSOL Energy Sets Goals Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 50% By 2026, Achieve Net Zero Emissions By 2040; Coal Mining Produces More GHG Emissions Than Natural Gas Production In PA
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[10/18/2021]
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Senate Committee Meets Oct. 19 To Consider Bill That Prohibits Communities From Promoting Clean Energy, Energy Efficiency
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[10/11/2021]
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17 Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Operators Under Review By DEP To Determine If They Comply With Program Allowing Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[10/11/2021]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 19 To Hear Report On Radiation Decontamination Of Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Reactors, Waste Sites
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[10/11/2021]
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80 Organizations, 1,800+ Concerned Citizens To DEP: Ban Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Dept. Of Health Unaware Road Dumping Is Occurring
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[10/11/2021]
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65+ Groups Ask Biden Administration To Reclassify Oil & Gas Drilling Waste As 'Hazardous' To Prevent Road Dumping Of Wastewater And Other Practices
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[10/11/2021]
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DEP Invites Companies Involved In All Aspects Of Oil & Gas Well Plugging To Take A Survey
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[10/11/2021]
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Independent Fiscal Office Estimates Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Increase By Nearly $75 Million In 2022
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[10/11/2021]
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Sen. Comitta Calls For Hearings On The Failure Of Pennsylvania To Invest In Clean Energy Infrastructure
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[10/11/2021]
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FracTracker Alliance Accepting Nominations For Community Sentinel Award For Environmental Stewardship
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[10/4/2021]
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DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept. Not Aware Of All Chemicals In Oil & Gas Wastewater Making Risk Assessment Difficult
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[10/4/2021]
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Health Advocacy Groups Meet With State Dept. Of Health, DEP To Discuss Residents Impacted By Shale Gas Emissions
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[10/4/2021]
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DEP Terminates Proposed Beech Hollow Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant's Air Quality Permit In Washington County At Company’s Request
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[10/4/2021]
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TribLive Editorial: Why Do Pennsylvanians Have To Pay A Higher Price For Natural Gas? For Producing Energy?
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[10/4/2021]
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Senate Committees Hold Oct. 4 Hearing On Failure To Invest In PA’s Natural Gas Infrastructure; Set After PennEast Announced NJ Part Of Its Project Would Not Go Forward, But PA Part Might
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[9/27/2021]
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More Than 60 Environmental Groups, Green Party Of PA Oppose Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater On Rural PA Roads
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[9/27/2021]
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Well Done Foundation, Seneca Resources Partner On Orphaned Well Plugging Project In McKean County
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[9/27/2021]
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Senate Committee Meets Sept. 28 On Bills Allocating A Portion Of American Rescue Fund Monies For Local Environmental Improvement Projects + Fake Solution To Nutrient Pollution
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[9/20/2021]
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Environmental Groups Submit Rulemaking Petitions To Environmental Quality Board Asking For Full-Cost Bonding For Oil & Gas Well Plugging
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[9/20/2021]
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Guest Essay: A Modern Civilian Conservation Corps Could Transform PA, Beyond
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[9/20/2021]
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Guest Essay: Carbon Capture And Storage - A False Solution
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[9/20/2021]
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Clean Air Council Appeals Air Quality Permit For Beech Hollow Gas-Fired Power Plant In Washington County
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[9/13/2021]
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DEP Fails To Address Loophole That Continues To Allow Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater; Members Of Public Register Their Opposition To All Road Dumping
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[9/13/2021]
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National Fuel Gas Announces Target Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 25% By 2030
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[9/6/2021]
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Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4 Million Gallons Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Dumped On PA Roads
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[9/6/2021]
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Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater; Radiation Monitoring Of Drilling Wastes; More On DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Agenda Sept. 9
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[9/6/2021]
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DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Area Of Review For Unconventional Oil & Gas Drilling Permits
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[8/30/2021]
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Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies: Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Wastewater To Control Dust Is Environmentally Unsound Practice
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[8/30/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal Air Permit Extension For Proposed Liquefied Natural Gas Plant In Bradford County That Would Emit 1 Million Tons Of Greenhouse Gases A Year
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[8/30/2021]
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DEP Proposes Policy On Prioritizing Review Of Oil & Gas Erosion & Sediment Control General Permits
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[8/30/2021]
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DEP Issues Final Guidance On Underground Coal Mining Adjacent To Unconventional Gas Wells
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[8/30/2021]
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IFO Report: Quarterly Natural Gas Production Increases 7.8%, Strongest Growth In Nearly 2 Years
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[8/30/2021]
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Gov. Wolf Unveils State Forest Action Plan To Address Next 10 Years Of Strategic Initiatives In PA Forests; Shale Gas Development Promotes Forest Fragmentation
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[8/23/2021]
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New Penn State Study Shows Road Dumping Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Has Little Dust Suppression Benefit, Contains Pollutants Harmful To Human Health, Agriculture, Aquatic Life
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[8/23/2021]
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DEP To Propose Regulations Allowing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Across PA
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[8/23/2021]
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Now On Demand: Webinar- Radioactivity In Fracking - Too Hot To Handle With Scientist/Author Justin Nobel
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[8/23/2021]
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Guest Essay: FracTracker Response To Marcellus Shale Coalition On Lycoming Creek Watershed Digital Atlas Of Unconventional Gas Drilling Impacts
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[8/23/2021]
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Save PA’s Forests Coalition Hosts Aug. 25 Webinar On Watersheds And Wilderness At Risk From Natural Gas Development
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[8/16/2021]
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Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Should Enact Methane Regulations
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[8/16/2021]
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PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Aug. 19 To Hear Update On Penn State Study Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater, Continue Review Of Draft Conventional Drilling Regs.
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[8/16/2021]
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Appalachian Voices: U.S. Senate-Passed Infrastructure Bill Includes Largest-Ever Investment In Reclaiming Coal Lands
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[8/9/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Petition In Court To Order Commonwealth To Return $1.3 Billion In Revenue From State Forest Drilling Unconstitutionally Transferred From Oil & Gas Lease Fund
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[8/9/2021]
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Dept. Of Health Visits Communities And Families Impacted By Shale Gas Development, Hears Firsthand Accounts Of Health Harms
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[8/2/2021]
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Dangers Posed By Oil & Gas Drilling Wastes, Abandoned Wells + Siri Lawson’s Story From Warren County
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[7/26/2021]
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PA Supreme Court Again Declares Transfers From DCNR Oil & Gas Fund Unconstitutional Under Environmental Rights Amendment
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[6/7/2021]
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DEP: Olympus Energy Natural Gas Driller Fined $175,000 For Water Quality Violations In Allegheny County
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[5/30/2021]
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Axios: Republican State Treasurer Garrity Threatens To Withdraw State Funds From Banks Not Lending To Coal & Natural Gas Companies
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[5/30/2021]
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House Republicans Pass Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Wastewater, Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards
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[5/30/2021]
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81 Groups, 3,342 Individuals Express Opposition To Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[5/30/2021]
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Senate Committees Hear New, Proposed Utility Scale Solar Electric Generation Capacity In PA Is Outpacing Natural Gas Generation By Nearly 3 to 1
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[5/30/2021]
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Senate Democrats, AG Shapiro Announce Legislation To Address Issues Raised In Grand Jury Report On Natural Gas Fracking
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[5/30/2021]
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Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Air Quality Permit For Proposed Natural Gas Power Plant In Clinton County
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[5/30/2021]
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IFO: PA Quarterly Natural Gas Production Continues Steady Increase; PA Price Of Gas Increases 64.4%
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[5/24/2021]
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Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Well Wastewater Is Happening Now In Crawford, Erie, Warren Counties As House Prepares To Take Up Bill This Week To Make It Legal
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[5/24/2021]
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EPA Schedules Virtual Listening Sessions In June On Controlling Air Pollution From The Oil & Gas Industry
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[5/24/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Sets June 17 Virtual Business Meeting
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[5/24/2021]
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Presentation Proposals Now Being Accepted For 2021 Virtual Watershed Congress Sept. 20-24
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[5/24/2021]
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Federal Court Approves DEP, EPA, DOJ Settlement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites, $1.9 Million Penalty
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[5/17/2021]
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Local Governments, Others Oppose Senate Bill That Limits Local Choice In Clean Energy Sources, Locks In Status Quo, Negates Local Democracy, With Overly Broad Language To Address A Problem That Doesn’t Exist In PA
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[5/17/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On Plugging 6 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Venango County
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[5/10/2021]
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Bay Journal: PA Natural Gas Industry Embarrassed By 3 Environmental Scandals In 15 Months
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[5/10/2021]
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Republicans On House Committee OK Bill To Roll Back Environmental Protections From Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling, Legalize Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[5/10/2021]
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Environmental Defense Fund, PA Environmental Council Say Conventional Drilling Bill Would Result In Dramatic Reductions To Environmental Protection Standards
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[5/10/2021]
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Berks Gas Truth: Thousands Tell House They Don't Want Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[5/10/2021]
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Penn State Center For Agricultural And Shale Law: Agricultural Law Weekly Review
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[5/3/2021]
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House Committee Meets May 4 On Bill To Roll Back Environmental Protections From Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling, Legalize Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[5/3/2021]
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Good Samaritan Proposal To Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Well In Allegheny County
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[5/3/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Online May 6 Hearing, June 17 Business Meeting
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[4/26/2021]
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Commonwealth Financing Authority Announces $15+ Million In Act 13 Funding For 135 Environmental, Water Infrastructure Projects
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[4/19/2021]
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Bucks, Montgomery Counties Join Opposition To PA Senate Republican Caucus Court Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Fracking Ban
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[4/19/2021]
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Muhlenberg Poll Finds Heath Concerns Over Fracking, Climate Change Decline In PA
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[4/19/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Meets April 19 On Benefits Of Conventional Oil & Gas Industry
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[4/19/2021]
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PA Grade Crude (Oil) Development Advisory Council Meets April 22 On Draft Conventional Drilling Rules; Update On Road-Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Study
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[4/19/2021]
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Biden Administration Releases Pennsylvania Infrastructure Needs Report
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[4/19/2021]
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Project Canary, Chesapeake Energy Announce Partnership To Produce Certified Responsibly Sourced Natural Gas
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[4/19/2021]
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EQT Natural Gas Announces Commitment To Seek Independent Natural Gas Certification Under Equitable Origin, MiQ Standards For 200 Wells In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/12/2021]
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Republican Bills Again Seek To Make Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater Legal
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[4/12/2021]
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U.S. DOE Announces $35 Million In Grants Available For Technologies To Reduce Methane Emissions In Oil, Gas, Coal Industries
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[4/12/2021]
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DCNR, DEP Begin Plugging 12 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells In Cornplanter State Forest, Forest County
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[3/29/2021]
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Federal Court Grants Request For 16 PA Senate Democrats To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Caucus Legal Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[3/29/2021]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Proposed Rule, Groundwater Review Policies For Comment, Including New Pre-Drilling Well Site Review Policy
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[3/29/2021]
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DEP, EPA, DOJ Reach $1.9 Million Agreement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites
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[3/22/2021]
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35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking
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[3/22/2021]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Project To Plug Abandoned Well In Allegheny County
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[3/22/2021]
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Clara Township Residents Push Home Rule To Protect Environment From Drilling Waste Injection Well In Potter County
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[3/22/2021]
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DEP Accepting Comments On 64 Applications For General Permit Coverage For Processing, Reuse Of Liquid Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[3/22/2021]
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International Insurance Firm Swiss Re Group Announces Climate Targets-- Exit Coal Business By 2030, Withdraw From Supporting Oil & Gas Production
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[3/15/2021]
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Sen. Yaw: DCNR Should Raise Money By Leasing More State Forest Land For Natural Gas Drilling; Fails To Deal With $1 Billion DCNR Infrastructure Needs
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[3/15/2021]
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16 Members Of PA Senate Democratic Caucus Filed Motion To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Caucus Legal Challenge To Delaware River Basin Commission Natural Gas Fracking Ban
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[3/15/2021]
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AG Shapiro: $5.3 Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners
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[3/15/2021]
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Sen. Yaw Hosts March 23 'Honest Conservation About Energy, The Economy, The Environment' With State Geologist From Texas
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[3/15/2021]
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Dickinson College Clarke Forum Hosts Renowned Poet, Award-Winning Photographer To Discuss Project Documenting Fracking On March 25
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[3/15/2021]
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Registration Now Open For 2021 Shale Network Workshop May 13-14
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[3/15/2021]
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Better Path Coalition Hosts Environmental Health News ‘The Body Burden Of Living Near Fracking’ Reporter In March 24 Webinar
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[3/8/2021]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 3.9% In 2020 Over 2019; Impact Fee, Permit Fee Revenue Takes Hit
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[3/1/2021]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks PA Supreme Court To Stop Unconstitutional Diversions Of Revenue From Gas Drilling On State Forest Land That So Far Has Taken Over $829 Million
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[3/1/2021]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Bans Hydraulic Fracking Drilling Activities In Watershed; Will Develop Regs To Manage Drilling Wastewater
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[3/1/2021]
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Delaware RiverKeeper Approved To Intervene In Federal Lawsuit By PA Senate Republican Caucus Against DRBC Ban On Hydraulic Fracking Gas Drilling
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[3/1/2021]
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Sen. Yaw Introduces Bill To Preempt Local Governments From Requiring New Buildings Use Climate-Friendly Energy Sources
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[3/1/2021]
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Philadelphia Energy Co-Op: Swarthmore Combats Climate Change By Switching To Renewable Natural Gas
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[2/22/2021]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Sets Feb. 25 Meeting On Final Rule Banning Certain Fracking Activities In Natural Gas Drilling
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[2/22/2021]
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Environmental Groups, DEP Agree To Open Public Comment Period On 49 Previously Approved Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment & Storage Facility Permits
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[2/22/2021]
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Shale Gas Development In PA Increases Exposure Of Nearby Residents To Air Pollutants, Setback Policies Not Effective
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[2/22/2021]
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Songbirds' Reproductive Success Reduced By Natural Gas Pipeline Compressor Noise
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[2/22/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Holds 2nd Meeting Feb. 24 On Proposed Changes To Chapter 105 Regulations
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[2/15/2021]
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DEP: Range Resources Pays $294,000 Penalty For Delaying The Plugging Of 42 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In 8 Counties
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[2/15/2021]
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Delaware RiverKeeper Files To Intervene In PA Senate Republican Lawsuit To Overturn Moratorium On Drilling In Delaware River Watershed
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[2/15/2021]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 24 On Opportunities For Growing PA’s Natural Gas Economy
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[2/8/2021]
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Good Samaritan Proposal To Plug Orphan Oil & Gas Well In Bradford County
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[2/8/2021]
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PA Environmental Council Renews Call For Pennsylvania To Lead On Climate Change And Reducing Carbon Pollution
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[2/1/2021]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees For Calendar 2020 To Drop; Revenue Falls By $56 Million To Record Low
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[1/25/2021]
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DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 5 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[1/18/2021]
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PA Senate Republican Caucus Files Lawsuit Against Delaware River Basin Commission Over Shale Gas Drilling Moratorium
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[1/18/2021]
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DEP Renews General Permits For 27 Facilities In 11 Counties To Process/Reuse Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[1/11/2021]
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IFO: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee 2020 Revenue To Drop By Over $55.5 Million; Dropped By Over 42% In Just 2 Years
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[1/11/2021]
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Federal Judge Rules Wayne County Landowners' Lawsuit Over Delaware River Basin Commission Drilling Moratorium Will Continue
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[1/4/2021]
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Gov. Dick Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water
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[1/4/2021]
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Op-Ed: Climate Change Is Affecting Us All In Pennsylvania, Especially In Philadelphia
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[12/28/2020]
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Dept. Of Health Awards $2.5 Million Contract To University of Pittsburgh To Research Health Effects Of Hydraulic Fracturing In PA
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[12/28/2020]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Updates Instream Water Monitoring Website With New Features
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[12/21/2020]
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Grant Twp. Indiana County Defends Itself Against Another Lawsuit By PA General Energy Company Over Its Ordinance Banning Drilling Waste Injection Wells Based On Environmental Rights Amendment
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP Projects Nearly 70% Drop In Revenue Supporting Oil & Gas Drilling Regulatory Program Due To Downturn In Industry; Health Impacts Study Report Due This Month
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP Publishes Final, Revised General Permit For Beneficial Use Of Liquid Waste From Fracking Oil & Gas Wells
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[12/21/2020]
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Nanoengineered Cement Shows Promise For Sealing Conventional, Shale Natural Gas Wells Leaking Climate-Damaging Methane
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[12/14/2020]
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DCNR Completes Online StoryMap On Monitoring Gas Development Impacts In State Forests
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[12/14/2020]
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Delaware River Basin Commission Approves Terminal On Delaware River In NJ To Export PA Natural Gas
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[12/14/2020]
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DEP Hosts Dec. 15 Webinar On Transitioning To New ePermitting System For Oil & Gas Well Permits
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[12/7/2020]
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DEP Starts Draft Conventional Oil & Gas Regulations Thru Development Process; Draft Regs Available
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[12/7/2020]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Update On Permit Fees v. Expenses; Oil & Gas Health Studies; Natural Gas Storage Fields; Reg. Update Dec. 16
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[12/7/2020]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In November Now Available
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[11/30/2020]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Republican Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[11/30/2020]
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Independent Fiscal Office Reports 3rd Quarter Natural Gas Production Increased 2%, Price Declined By 42.4% Over Last 18 Months
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[11/23/2020]
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Senate Republicans Send Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Standards For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling To Governor
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[11/23/2020]
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COVID Pandemic Delayed DCNR’s Shale Gas Drilling Monitoring Efforts In State Forests
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[11/16/2020]
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Senate Republicans To Consider Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Nov. 16
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[11/16/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Nov. 17 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[11/9/2020]
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PEDF Appeals Court Decision To PA Supreme Court Approving The Diversion Of $110 Million In DCNR Drilling Revenue To Pay Agency Operating Costs
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[11/2/2020]
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PA League Of Women Voters, Pitt School Of Public Health Virtual 2020 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Nov. 17-18
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[11/2/2020]
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Environmental Groups File Federal Lawsuit Over Air Pollution From Industrial Flares At Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Gas Processing & Compressor Stations
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[10/26/2020]
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Conservation Districts, Join Wildlife, Environmental Groups In Opposing Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[10/26/2020]
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PEDF: Court Decision Approves Diverting $110 Million In Drilling Revenue From State Forest Land To Pay DCNR Operating Costs, Ignoring PA Supreme Court Decision
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[10/26/2020]
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Groups Launch Effort Asking Legislators And Candidates For State Legislature To Sign Pennsylvania Climate Pledge
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[10/19/2020]
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DEP Invites Comments On Air Permit For 2 Natural Gas-Fired Power Blocks At Renovo Energy Center, Clinton County
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[10/19/2020]
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DCNR Invites Comments On Proposed Exchange Of Oil & Gas Rights In Elk And Susquehannock State Forests, Potter County
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[10/12/2020]
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House Democratic Policy Committee Holds Oct. 14 Hearing On Loopholes In Regulating Radioactive, Hazardous Oil & Gas Drilling Waste
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[10/5/2020]
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Shell Ethane Plant Air Quality Permits For Beaver County Facility
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[9/28/2020]
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Grant Twp., Indiana County Moves To Dismiss Lawsuit Against It By DEP Over Drilling Waste Injection Well
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[9/28/2020]
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EPA Settlement Requires MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Facility To Pay $150,000 Penalty For Air Violations In Butler County
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[9/28/2020]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Oil & Gas Well Plugging Project In Lycoming County
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[9/21/2020]
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DEP Reports Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Had Nearly Twice The Violations Of Shale Gas Wells; DEP To Develop New Conventional Drilling Regs
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[9/21/2020]
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PennDOT Opens P3 Partnership Compressed Natural Gas Fueling Station In Monroe County
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[9/14/2020]
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Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Transportation & Climate Initiative To Share Updates, Opportunity For Input Sept. 16 & 29
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[9/7/2020]
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Premiere Of Mark Ruffalo's 'Invisible Hand' Film About The Rights Of Nature Movement, Including Grant Twp., PA Injection Well Case
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[8/31/2020]
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Sen. Yaw Among State, National Leaders Pledging To Keep Country Dominant Natural Gas Producer
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[8/31/2020]
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Range Resources 2020 Sustainability Report Sets 2025 Goal For Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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[8/24/2020]
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DEP: CNX Gas Company Agrees To Pay $175,000 Penalty For Uncontrolled Methane Leaks At The Shaw Well In Westmoreland County
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[8/24/2020]
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IFO Reports PA Natural Gas Production Increased 2.8% In Second Quarter Over Last Year, But Over 31% Drop In New Producing Wells
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[8/24/2020]
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AG Shapiro, Environmental Groups File Lawsuits To Block Federal Rule On Transport Of Liquefied Natural Gas By Rail
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[8/17/2020]
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EPA Finalizes Methane Emission Standards For Oil & Gas Industry; Does Not Affect DEP Methane Proposal
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[8/17/2020]
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DEP Publishes New Policy On Replacement, Restoration Of Private Water Supplies Impacted by Unconventional Drilling Operations
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[8/10/2020]
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Senators Yaw, Santarsiero Send Bipartisan Letter To PA Congressional Delegation To Include Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funding In Next Federal Stimulus Bill
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[8/10/2020]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[8/10/2020]
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Going Virtual! PA Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 28-29
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[8/3/2020]
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DEP Unconventional Drilling Well Permit Fee Increase Effective August 1
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[8/3/2020]
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Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Visit Gas Well Servicing Firm In Butler County To Support Trump's Deregulation Agenda
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[7/27/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[7/27/2020]
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Regulation Lowering Sulfur Standard For Heating Oil From 500 To 15 ppm Now Final; Enforcement Suspended Until Feb. 28
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[7/20/2020]
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Senate, House Pass New Tax Credit Program To Encourage Natural Gas Use In Manufacturing; Governor Will Sign
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[7/20/2020]
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CFA Awards Over $1 Million In Pipeline Investment Program Grants In Monroe, Snyder Counties
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[7/13/2020]
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Applicants For Oil & Gas ESCGP-3 Permits Must Submit Applications Thru DEP’s ePermitting System Effective Sept. 9
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[7/13/2020]
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AG Shapiro Joins 15 Other States, EDF Asking Court To Require EPA To Set Methane Pollution Standards For Existing Oil & Gas Operations
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[7/13/2020]
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PA Environmental Council In Case You Missed It In June Now Available
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[6/29/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Grand Jury Finds Pennsylvania Failed To Protect Citizens During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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Reactions/Comments: Grand Jury Report On Regulatory Failures During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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Independent Fiscal Office Predicts Another $53.4 Million Decrease In Drilling Impact Fee Revenues In 2020 If Natural Gas Prices Remain Low
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[6/22/2020]
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IRRC Unanimously Approves EQB Regulation Increasing Unconventional Gas Well Drilling Permit Application Fee
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[6/22/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Cabot Oil & Gas For Water, Methane Contamination In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[6/22/2020]
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PUC Distributes Over $200 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees; A Sharp Drop Of $51.5 Million From Last Year
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[6/22/2020]
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Better Path Coalition Hosted Virtual Tour Of Gas Drilling Impacts, Other Webinars Coming
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[6/15/2020]
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Reminder: EQB Virtual Hearings On Reg. Controlling VOCs/Methane From Existing Oil, Gas Operations June 23, 24, 25
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[6/15/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro: Range Resources Pleads No Contest To Negligent Oversight Of Natural Gas Well Sites In Washington County; To Pay $150,000 In Penalties, Contributions
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[6/15/2020]
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Shale Gas Drilling Used Over 25 Billion Gallons Of Water Approved By The Susquehanna River Basin Commission Over 10 Years, Now 3rd Largest User Of Water
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[6/15/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Defends Lawsuit Saying DCNR’s Forest Plan Mission To Sell Gas Resources Not Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment
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[6/1/2020]
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House Republicans Pass Bill Rolling Back Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[6/1/2020]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Reschedules Meeting For 4th Time Again Delaying Action On The Final Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase
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[6/1/2020]
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State Fire Commissioner Accepting Applications For Act 13 Fire Company, EMS Grants
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[5/25/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Grants PA Environmental Defense Foundation Request For Oral Argument In Challenge To State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers
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[5/25/2020]
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Sen. Yaw: NY/NJ Rejection Of PA Natural Gas Pipeline Aids Foreign Producers, At Same Time Governor Wants To Join RGGI
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[5/25/2020]
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EQB Invites Comments On Regulations Controlling VOCs/Methane From Existing Oil, Gas Operations
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[5/25/2020]
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EQB Approves Proposed Rule Eliminating Stage II Vapor Controls At Gasoline Stations
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[5/25/2020]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Increased 6.8% In First Quarter Over Last Year
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[5/18/2020]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Holds Virtual Meeting May 19 On Carbon Pollution Reduction Program
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[5/18/2020]
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U.S. EIA Expects Coal-Fired Electric Generation To Fall By 25% In 2020; 11% Increase In Renewables; Natural Gas Flat
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[5/18/2020]
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EDF Analysis Finds PA Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Are Double Previous Estimate
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[5/18/2020]
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Independent Regulatory Review Commission Reschedules Meeting On Final Unconventional Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase To June 3
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[5/18/2020]
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NRDC Files Brief In Wayne County Landowners Court Challenge To DRBC Authority To Regulate Fracking
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[5/18/2020]
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DCED Awards $3.2 Million In Grants To Extend Natural Gas Service In 5 Counties
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[5/11/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Inflection Energy to Pay $40,000 To Conservation Groups For Polluting Lycoming County Water
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[5/11/2020]
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EQB Considers Proposed Rule Eliminating Stage II Vapor Controls At Gasoline Stations May 19
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[5/11/2020]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Holds May 12 Telephonic Meeting
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[4/27/2020]
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DEP Approves Permit For Underground Injection Well For Drilling Wastewater In Allegheny County
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[4/27/2020]
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DEP Receives Good Samaritan Act Proposals To Plug 2 Abandoned Wells In Wyoming, Venango Counties
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Fines Range Resources $198,920 For Air Quality Violations In Washington County
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Proposes Changes To General Permit Allowing Beneficial Use Of Oil & Gas Liquid Waste To Develop Or Frac Oil & Gas Wells
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[4/13/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[4/13/2020]
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DEP Settlement With CNX For E&S Violations In Greene, Washington Counties Yields $180,000 Streambank, Fish Habitat Project
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[4/6/2020]
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Post-Gazette: PA Faces New Wave Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[3/30/2020]
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IHS Markit Predicts 50% Drop In Demand For Gasoline In U.S.; Demand For Electric Vehicles Will Falter
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[3/30/2020]
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DEP Revokes Drilling Waste Injection Well Permit In Grant Twp., Indiana County After Environmental Rights Amendment Court Ruling
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[3/30/2020]
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Gov. Wolf Vetoes Bill Giving Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies To Manufacturers Who Use Natural Gas; Veto Override Attempt Coming
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[3/30/2020]
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HealthFirstPA March 31 Webinar On Methane Pollution And Public Health
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[3/23/2020]
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Bills On Governor's Desk
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[3/23/2020]
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HB 1100 Subsidy Bill For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing Goes To Governor
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[3/16/2020]
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Court: Indiana County Twp. Has Right To Defend Its Prohibition Of A Drilling Wastewater Injection Well Using The Environmental Rights Amendment
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[3/16/2020]
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CANCELED: Senate Appropriations Committee Holds Hearing On Pipeline Investment Program March 24
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[3/16/2020]
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CANCELED: Senate, House Policy Committees To Hold Hearing March 25 On Grow PA Infrastructure, Education, Health Care Innovations
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[3/16/2020]
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Phipps Conservatory To Host April 14-15 One Health One Planet Symposium On Air Quality In Pittsburgh
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[3/16/2020]
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Dueling Press Conferences For/Against Signing Bill Providing Taxpayer Funded Subsidies For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing
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[3/9/2020]
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DEP To Use EPA Grant To Characterize Ambient Concentrations Of Methane In 10 Counties
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[3/9/2020]
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30+ Environmental Groups Will Hold A March 9 Rally Against HB 1100 Giving An Unlimited Subsidy For Natural Gas Use In Manufacturing
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[3/9/2020]
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The Economy As A Complement, Not Detriment To The Environment - Shell Ethane Plant
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[3/2/2020]
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BP America Op-Ed: PA Can Transform America’s Energy Landscape - Again By Joining RGGI
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[3/2/2020]
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DEP Sets April 2 Hearing On Revaluation Of All Sources Of Air Pollution; The Installation Of Ethane Storage Tanks At Sunoco’s Natural Gas Liquids Facility In Delaware County
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[3/2/2020]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 11.4% In 2019; Increases In Production, Number Of Producing Wells Down Significantly
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[2/24/2020]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Business Meeting March 13 In Harrisburg
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[2/24/2020]
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DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate
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[2/24/2020]
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USGS Study: No Statistically Significant Relationship Between Shale Gas Development And Stream Chemical, Benthic, Microbial Life Changes In State Forest Drilling Areas
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[2/17/2020]
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Senate Deliberately Delaying Sending Bill Providing Unlimited Subsidies For Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing To Governor
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[2/17/2020]
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Op-Ed: PA Legislators Should Stop Giving Tax Breaks To Fossil Fuel Industry
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[2/10/2020]
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Senate, House Take Final Action On Bill Providing Unlimited Subsidies To Industries Using Natural Gas In Manufacturing; Governor Set To Veto
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[2/10/2020]
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Joint Conservation Committee: Belle Vernon Municipal Authority Taking A Stand Against Pollution From Drilling Waste
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[2/10/2020]
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DEP Hearing Feb. 26 [If Needed] On Chesapeake Energy Request To Waive Setback For Well To Be Drilled In Bradford County
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[2/3/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Submits Brief Continuing Legal Battle To Have DCNR Drilling Revenue Returned To Benefit Conservation
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[2/3/2020]
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Dominion Energy Submits Application To Plug 3 Wells At Oakford Natural Gas Storage Complex In Westmoreland County
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[2/3/2020]
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Twice As Much Methane Is Leaking From Oil & Gas Facilities In Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma As EPA Estimates
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[2/3/2020]
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The Energy Co-op Opens Renewable Natural Gas Program To All PECO, PGW Customers In Southeast
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[1/27/2020]
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CFA Starts Accepting Applications Feb. 1 For Act 13 Watershed Restoration, Mine Reclamation, Sewage, Flood Mitigation, Recreation Grants
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[1/27/2020]
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EQB Approves Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil Regulations
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[1/27/2020]
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195 Groups Oppose SB 790 Reducing Conventional Drilling Environmental Protections, House Set For Final Vote
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[1/27/2020]
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Earthworks: Rolling Stone Article Links Oil & Gas Waste Radioactivity To Worker Cancers, Wastewater Trucks Operating Illegally
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[1/27/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Overturns Rule Of Capture Trespass Decision, But Allows Challenge Of Actual Trespass
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[1/27/2020]
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Senate Transportation, Environmental Committees Hold Joint Hearing Jan. 29 On Regional Transportation Climate Initiative
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[1/27/2020]
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CFA Awards 4 Natural Gas Pipeline Service Extension Grants Totalling $2.3 Million In Chester, Monroe, Northampton Counties
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[1/20/2020]
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Final Vote Expected This Week In House On Bill Reducing Environmental Protection Requirements For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[1/20/2020]
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PEC, EDF: Senate Bill 790 Includes Dramatic Reductions In Health, Environmental Protections From Impacts Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling
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[1/20/2020]
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Opposition To Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater Grows: 166 Organizations, 1,445 Citizens Call On House To Reject Senate Bill 790
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[1/20/2020]
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DEP Orders Range Resources To Address Methane Leaking Into The Air, 12 Water Wells, Groundwater From A Marcellus Gas Well In Lycoming County Since 2013
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[1/20/2020]
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PA AG Shapiro, 15 Other State Attorneys General Object To Shipping Liquefied Natural Gas By Rail
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[1/20/2020]
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PUC Approves Settlement For Aqua America’s $4+ Billion Acquisition Of The Peoples Natural Gas Companies
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[1/20/2020]
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2020 Shale Network Workshop Set For May 14-15 In State College To Feature Health Effects Presentations
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[1/13/2020]
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IFO: CY 2019 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue To Drop Sharply By $53.6 Million, Triggers Lower Well Fee
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[1/13/2020]
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EQB Meets Jan. 21 To Finalize Oil & Gas Permit Fee Increase, Lower Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil
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[1/13/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Jan. 13 On Bill Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[1/13/2020]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Discuss Draft Horizontal Drilling Pipeline Construction Guidance Document, Stakeholder Report
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[1/13/2020]
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PA Supreme Court Accepts PA Environmental Defense Foundation Appeal Of Ruling On Gas Drilling Revenue Transfers To Pay DCNR, General Fund Expenses
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[1/13/2020]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Amended Lawsuit Saying DCNR’s Adopted Forest Plan Mission To Sell Gas Resources Is Not Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment
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[1/13/2020]
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Northeast Regional Transportation & Climate Initiative Invites Comments On Draft Program To Cap Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicle Fuels
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[1/13/2020]
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PUC Releases Winter Reliability Overview Reports From Natural Gas Distribution Companies
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[1/6/2020]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Land Lease Under Allegheny River For Gas Development For $1,162,800 In Armstrong County
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[12/23/2019]
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EQB Approves For Comment Regulations Controlling Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations, Setting Manganese Water Quality Standard
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[12/23/2019]
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DEP Estimates Proposed Methane Regs Approved By EQB Will Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations By 75,000+ Tons/Year
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[12/23/2019]
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Reaction To Methane Proposal: Marcellus Shale Coalition, House Climate Caucus, PA Environmental Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Clean Air Council, Earthworks
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[12/23/2019]
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PA Housing Finance Agency Invites Comments On Proposed Housing Funding Plan Supported By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees
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[12/16/2019]
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Protect PT Appeals Court Ruling Upholding Westmoreland County Township's Ordinance Allowing Natural Gas Drilling
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[12/9/2019]
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EQB To Consider Regulations Controlling Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations, Setting Manganese Toxic Substances Water Quality Standard Dec. 17
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[12/9/2019]
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In A First, National Natural Gas Supply Assn. Supports Carbon Pricing, Including Major Natural Gas Drilling Companies In PA
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[12/9/2019]
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DEP Air Quality Advisory Committee To Review Final Fee Increase Package, 2019 Air Monitoring Results, Legacy Well Programs Dec. 12
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[12/9/2019]
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IFO PA Natural Gas Production 3rd Quarter Report: 9.1% Increase This Quarter Over Last Year, Projected 11.2% Increase In 2019
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[12/9/2019]
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DCNR Submerged Lands Lease For Oil & Gas Development In Fayette, Greene Counties Yields $943,600
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[12/2/2019]
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Help Wanted: Southwest PA Environmental Health Project Executive Director
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[11/25/2019]
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PA State Seismic Network Has Detected Only 1 Fracking-Inducted Seismic Event, So Far
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[11/18/2019]
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You Are Looking At A Map Of Future Dumpsites For Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater If Road Dumping Is Approved By General Assembly
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[11/18/2019]
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Commonwealth Court Upholds Westmoreland County Township’s Ordinance Allowing Natural Gas Drilling
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[11/11/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit Asking Court To Direct DCNR To Manage State Forests Consistent With Environmental Rights Amendment To Prevent Drilling Impacts
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[11/4/2019]
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100 Groups, Companies, 1,000 Citizens To Legislators, Wolf: Oppose SB 790 Legalizing Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[11/4/2019]
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DEP Reaches $650,000 Settlement With Greene County Gas Storage Field Operator For Oil & Gas Act Violations
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[11/4/2019]
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DEP Received Good Samaritan Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging Proposal In Tioga County
|
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[10/28/2019]
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Briefing: Trick Or Treat? Environmental Policies Promoted By Today’s Republicans
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[10/28/2019]
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Senate Passes Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater 26-23 Without Debate
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|
[10/28/2019]
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House Environmental Committee OKs Bill Allowing Longer Shale Gas Drilling Laterals
|
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[10/21/2019]
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Senate Appropriations Committee Meets Oct. 21 To Consider Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
|
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[10/21/2019]
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40+ Groups, 200 Citizens Call On 2 Republican Reps. O’Neal, Ortitay To Investigate Cancers, Call For A Halt To Industry-Friendly Bills
|
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[10/21/2019]
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DEP Posts Updates To Radiation Monitoring Requirements For Oil & Gas Operations For Comment
|
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement With CNX On Well Plugging Violations At 141 Conventional Coalbed Methane & Gas Wells, 5 Unconventional Gas Wells In 4 Southwest Counties
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[10/14/2019]
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Sen. Blake, Rep. Mullins To Introduce Bill Setting Minimum Host Community, School District, DEP Fees For Power Plants
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[10/14/2019]
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Op-Ed: House Energize PA Proposal Will Let Taxpayers Holding The Bag
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Suspends Xtreme Energy Natural Gas Well Permits For Failure To Pay Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee
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[10/14/2019]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition Responds To FracTracker Alliance Report On Land Impacts Of Unconventional Gas Drilling In Pine Creek Watershed, Northcentral PA
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[10/14/2019]
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PennFuture To Host Fmr Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard Oct. 22 In Harrisburg For A Discussion On His Book Less Oil Or More Caskets
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[10/7/2019]
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Dept. Of Health To Give DEP Advisory Committee Update On Oil & Gas Production Health Registry Oct. 17
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[10/7/2019]
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DCNR Signs Submerged Lands Drilling Lease In Greene County For $162,400 In Upfront Payments
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[9/30/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Bill To Legalize Road Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater With Little Discussion, Only 3 Negative Votes
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[9/30/2019]
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Penn State Study Recommends Only Using Nontoxic Products Or Highly Treated Drilling Wastewater To Remove Radium, Oil, Metals Before Road Spreading
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[9/30/2019]
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IFO Estimates Landowners Will Be Paid Over $1.6 Billion In Natural Gas Royalties In Tax Year 2018; $9.815 Billion Since 2010
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[9/30/2019]
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Op-Ed: There Is A Sunnier Vision For Pennsylvania That’s An Alternative To The Fossilization Of Our Energy Future
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[9/23/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 24 To Move Bill To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Wells, Make Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater Legal
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[9/23/2019]
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Op-Ed: Why Is the General Assembly About To Hurt Us By Authorizing Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Wastewater?
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[9/22/2019]
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House Republicans To Move Bills To Demolish Environmental Permitting, Stop Development For 3-5 Years, Cut Public Out Of Permit Reviews
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[9/22/2019]
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SRBC Water Quality Monitoring Report Again Shows No Adverse Impact From Drilling On State Forest, Other Land In Priority Watersheds
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[9/22/2019]
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Senate, House Lawmakers From Both Parties Call On Wolf To Move Oil & Gas Methane Emission Reduction Rules Without Delay
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[9/22/2019]
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Bipartisan Group Of 30 House Members Urge Wolf To Take Action On Regs To Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations
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[9/16/2019]
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Earthworks’ New Report, Interactive Map Tracks Disposal Of 380 Million Barrels Of PA Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Including Road Dumping
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[9/2/2019]
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EPA Proposes Changes To Methane Emission Control Regulations For Oil & Gas Industry; PA Reaction
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[9/2/2019]
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Penn State Researchers Develop Affordable, Less-Intensive Methane Detection Protocol For Water
|
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[8/19/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Appeals State Court Ruling Saying Law, Not Constitution Directs Use Of State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers
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[8/19/2019]
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FracTracker Alliance Report Catalogs Land Impacts Of Unconventional Gas Drilling In Pine Creek Watershed, Northcentral PA
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[8/12/2019]
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Sen. Yudichak, DEP Secretary Highlight Benefits Of Proposed Restore PA Plan To Turn Brownfield Site Into Recreation Area
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[8/12/2019]
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New Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Support For Restore PA Infrastructure Plan; When Will It Translate Into Legislative Votes?
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[8/12/2019]
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DEP Receives 2 Proposed Good Samaritan Gas Well Plugging Project Requests In Bradford, Tioga Counties
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[8/5/2019]
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PEDF Says Commonwealth Court Ruling On State Forest Drilling Revenue Transfers Ignores PA Supreme Court Decision
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[7/29/2019]
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Senators Scarnati, Yaw, Baker Who Oppose DRBC Fracking Moratorium Seek To Intervene In Federal Case As Environmental Trustees
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[7/29/2019]
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DEP, Marcellus Shale Coalition Win Some, Lose Some In Preliminary Commonwealth Court Decision On Drilling Regs
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[7/29/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Hears Concerns About Monitoring Impacts Of The Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Site Cleanup
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[7/22/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Asks Court To Block FY 19-20 Transfers From Oil & Gas Fund To Pay DCNR Operating Expenses
|
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[7/22/2019]
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DCNR Conservation Advisory Council Set To Discuss Plan To Make Up Land Lost To Drilling, Penn’s Parks For All Plan July 24
|
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[7/22/2019]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Has A Major Goal In 2019-- To Restore Program To Spread Waste Water From Wells On Roads
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[7/22/2019]
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The AlleghenyVoice.com-- New Source For Environmental News In The Allegheny River Watershed
|
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[7/22/2019]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $44,150 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
|
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[7/22/2019]
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CFA Provides Grants To Subsidize Extension Of Natural Gas Service In Butler, Crawford, Northampton Counties
|
|
[7/15/2019]
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DEP Releases Annual Oil and Gas Program Report Covering Activities During 2018
|
|
[7/8/2019]
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EQB Regulation Lowering Sulfur Content Of Heating Oil To 15 PPM Published For Comment
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|
[7/8/2019]
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Penn State Extension July 18 Webinar On Managing Wastewater From Shale Gas Drilling Operations
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[7/8/2019]
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State Court Finds Butler County Township Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling Does Not Violate Environmental Rights Amendment
|
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[7/1/2019]
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Column: Desire For Riches Often Comes At The Cost Of Natural Resources
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[7/1/2019]
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PUC Distributes Nearly $252 Million In Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue, Largest Amount To Date
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[7/1/2019]
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IFO Projecting Either $9.6 Million Increase In Drilling Impact Fee Revenue In 2019 Or $37.1 Million Decrease
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[7/1/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Bill To Make Report On Impacts Of Deep Coal Mining Optional, And Other Bills
|
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[6/23/2019]
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Sen. Scarnati Introduces Bill To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Different From House Version
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[6/17/2019]
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Advises DCNR Proposal To Replace State Forest Lost To Gas Drilling Does Not Meet Its Obligations As A Public Trustee
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[6/17/2019]
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Rep. Causer Introduces Bill To Turn Back The Clock On Regulating Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling To 1984
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[6/17/2019]
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House Committee Approves 2 Energize PA Natural Gas Use Subsidy Bills
|
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[6/17/2019]
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EPA Extends Low RVP Gasoline Waiver In Allegheny County, Buckeye Laurel Pipeline Still Not Repaired
|
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[6/17/2019]
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20th Anniversary Of Natural Gas Competition In PA Highlighted By PUC
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[6/10/2019]
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Restore PA Infrastructure Initiative Introduced With Enough Co-Sponsors To Nearly Pass House, Senate
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[6/10/2019]
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Republican Senators Introduce Restore PA-Lite Proposal Funded By More Drilling On State Forest Land
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[6/10/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Making Fundamental Changes To The Definition Of Water Pollution, Setting Up Costly Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Program
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[6/10/2019]
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Senate, House Legislation Coming To Create New Law To Regulate Conventional Oil & Gas Well Drilling
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[6/10/2019]
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House Finance Committee Meets June 11 On 2 Energize PA Natural Gas Use Subsidy Bills
|
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[6/3/2019]
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Analysis: Before More State Forest Drilling, Ask What Happened To The Money The First Time
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[6/3/2019]
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Marcellus Shale Coalition, Lycoming County Leaders: Natural Gas Impact Tax Works for Pennsylvania’s Communities
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[6/3/2019]
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IFO: First Quarter Natural Gas Production Grew 14.7 Percent In Pennsylvania
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[6/3/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Allows Residents Of Other Municipalities To Testify In Local Zoning Cases Involving Drilling Operations
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[6/3/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Bills June 4 To Compensate Gas Rights Owners, Make Changes In Definition Of Pollution
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[6/3/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Holds Info Meeting June 5 On Using Act 13 Impact Fee Monies For Stormwater Management
|
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[6/3/2019]
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EPA Issues Low-RVP Gasoline Waiver For Allegheny County Due To A Failure In The Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
|
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[6/3/2019]
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DEP Opportunity To Bid On Gas Well Plugging Project In Clarion County
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[5/27/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling Allowing Local Zoning Permits For Drilling In Westmoreland County
|
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[5/27/2019]
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State Fire Commissioner Now Accepting Applications For Unconventional Gas Well Local Emergency Response Grants
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[5/27/2019]
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Range Resources Publishes First Corporate Sustainability Report, Working To Achieve Zero Emissions Across Operations
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[5/27/2019]
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Research: Methane Emissions From Natural Gas Half The Carbon Footprint Of Underground Coal Mining In Pennsylvania
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[5/20/2019]
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At Delaware River Governors' Summit, Gov. Wolf Announces His Support For A Full Ban On Fracking In The Delaware Watershed
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[5/20/2019]
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House Begins Debate On Bill To Compensate Delaware River Watershed Drilling Rights Owners Over $10 Billion If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban
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[5/20/2019]
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New Study Tracks Liquid, Solid Waste From Conventional, Unconventional Oil & Gas Development In PA From Generation To Disposal
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[5/20/2019]
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Muhlenberg Public Health Poll: 51% Say Climate Change Poses Major Risk To Public Health In PA, Radon 43%, Fracking 38%
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[5/19/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Decision Allowing Drilling In All Districts Under A Local Zoning Ordinance As Long As They Meet Standards
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[5/13/2019]
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DEP Collected $330,775 In Penalties For Violations At EQT Drilling Sites In Allegheny County
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[5/6/2019]
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House Republican Bills Providing Public Subsidies For Natural Gas Use Creates Political Commission To Set Environmental Standards, Make Individual Permit Decisions
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[5/6/2019]
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DCNR Proposes Replacing Recreational Value Lost From Gas Drilling On State Forest Land Bought With Federal Funds With Property In Chester County
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[5/6/2019]
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Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced
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[5/6/2019]
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DEP Oil & Gas Program Reported 94 Violations At 168 Conventional Well Facilities During 1 Week In April
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[4/29/2019]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Held Hearing In Pittsburgh On Methane And Climate Change
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[4/29/2019]
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Opportunities To Bid On DEP Oil & Gas Well Plugging, Mine Reclamation Projects
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[4/29/2019]
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U.S.G.S Releases Study Of Bradford County Private Drinking Water Wells; Nearly 50% Have Coliform Contamination
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[4/22/2019]
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Senate Democratic Policy Committee Holds April 23 Hearing On Methane Emissions, Climate Change In Pittsburgh
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[4/22/2019]
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Updates To DCNR’s EDWIN Database Of PA Oil & Gas Well Information
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[4/15/2019]
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DEP Advisory Committee Recommends Moving Ahead With Reg To Control VOC/Methane Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations
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[4/15/2019]
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DCNR Signs 2 Submerged Land Leases For Gas Development Covering 124.2 Acres For $496,800
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[4/8/2019]
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Alliance For Appalachia: A Toolkit For Cleanup & Community Development
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[4/8/2019]
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PUC Safety Engineers Probe UGI Natural Gas Distribution Line Hit In Hershey
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[4/1/2019]
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House Committee OKs Bill To Compensate Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban; Cost A Minimum Of $10 Billion
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[4/1/2019]
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Draft Regulation Controlling VOC/Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Operations Now Available, To Be On April 11 DEP Advisory Committee Agenda
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[4/1/2019]
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EQT Foundation Invites Applications For Higher Ed Scholarships In Greene, Washington Counties
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[4/1/2019]
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Opportunity To Bid On DEP Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Plugging In Butler County
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[4/1/2019]
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CFA Approves 11 Alternative And Clean Energy Project Grants For Over $12 Million
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[3/25/2019]
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House Committee To Consider Bills To Compensate Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban, Change Well Pad Permitting March 26
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[3/25/2019]
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Op-Ed: Will Our Dirt Roads Again Be Used As Dumping Sites For Oil & Gas Well Wastewater
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[3/25/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties, Voluntary Pooling
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[3/25/2019]
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Presenters Urge House Committee To Support Bill Compensating Landowners For Drilling Rights If DRBC Adopts A Fracking Ban
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[3/25/2019]
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March 27 DEP Meeting On Proposed Drilling Permits At U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant, Allegheny County
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[3/25/2019]
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PJM: Reliability, Fuel Supply Strong In PJM During 2018-19 Winter
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[3/18/2019]
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Rep. Mehaffie Introduces Bill To Prevent Nuclear Power Plant Closures Costing $500 Million Annually
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[3/18/2019]
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PJM Tells 2 House Committees Competitive Electric Markets Significantly Reduced Prices For PA Ratepayers; Grid Will Remain Reliable Into The Future
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[3/18/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement On Diversified Gas & Oil Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[3/18/2019]
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DEP To Discuss Draft Regs Controlling VOC [Methane] Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations At March 21 Advisory Board Meeting
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[3/18/2019]
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Commonwealth Court Clears The Way For Attorney General To Pursue Unfair Trade Practices Case Against Chesapeake, Anadarko On Drilling Royalties, Payments
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[3/18/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meets March 19 To Consider Bill Allowing Cross Unit Drilling Under Several Properties
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[3/18/2019]
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Court: Injection Well Developer Does Not Need To Wait To Challenge A Local Zoning Decision Until It Has Permits For The Well
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[3/11/2019]
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PA Supreme Court Turns Down Conventional Gas Drillers’ Motion To Reconsider Stripper Well Impact Fee Decision
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[3/11/2019]
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IFO: Natural Gas Production Increased 14.2% In 2018, Largest Increase Since 2014
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[3/4/2019]
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Environmental Rights Amendment Challenge To Unconstitutional Use Of Oil & Gas Funds Now Includes Recent Proposed Fund Transfers
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[2/25/2019]
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Bill Introduced Again To Require Drilling Rights Compensation If DRBC Adopts Fracking Ban
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[2/25/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meeting On Forge The Future Energy/Development Plan Turns Into Climate Change Debate
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[2/25/2019]
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DEP Issues Water Quality Certification For UGI LNG Truck Loading Facility In Berks
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[2/25/2019]
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Penn State Extension Webinar On How Colorado Prioritizes Oil & Gas Well Inspections
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[2/25/2019]
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Penn State Extension March 14 Webinar On Methane Migration & Changes In Aquifer Properties
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[2/18/2019]
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Conventional Gas Drillers Ask PA Supreme Court To Reconsider Stripper Well Impact Fee Decision
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[2/18/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Feb. 20 On Forge The Future Economic Development Report
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[2/18/2019]
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Tribune Review: Environmental Groups Set Feb. 28 Public Meeting On Shale Gas Well Failure In Westmoreland County
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[2/11/2019]
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After 10 Days, Pressure Problem From Fracking Utica Gas Well In Westmoreland County Said To Be Under Control
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[2/4/2019]
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PUC: Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Amounts Will Not Change For 2018 Collection Year
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[1/28/2019]
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Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K/Month Without Fee Increase; DEP Wants To Step Up Inspections Of Natural Gas Storage Fields
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[1/28/2019]
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IFO Estimates FY 2018 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue At $247 Million, A Record
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[1/28/2019]
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House Democratic Policy Committee Hears Testimony On Oil & Gas Industry Methane Leakage
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[1/28/2019]
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Senate Committee Member Assignments Now Complete With Republicans Naming Their Team
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[1/28/2019]
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PennDOT, Lebanon Transit Open CNG Transit Fueling Station
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[1/28/2019]
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U.S. EIA Energy Outlook: Renewables Share Of Electricity Generation To Almost Double By 2050, Coal Continues To Drop
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[1/21/2019]
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DEP Receives 2 Proposed Good Samaritan Gas Well Plugging Project Requests
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[1/21/2019]
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1,485-Megawatt Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Goes Online In Lackawanna County
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[1/14/2019]
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DEP Changes Regional Boundaries, Shifts Workload, Provides Update On e-Permitting, e-Inspections To Improve Permit Review Times, Reduce Costs
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[1/14/2019]
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Gov. Wolf Sets Goal Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 80% By 2050 From 2005 Levels
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[1/14/2019]
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Peoples Gas Commits To Reducing Methane Emissions By 50% In its Pittsburgh Distribution System
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[1/14/2019]
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EHB: Air Quality Permit For Natural Gas Liquids Project At Marcus Hook Refinery Unlawful
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[1/14/2019]
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DCNR Leases Youghiogheny River Streambed Crossing To Chevron For $975,600 In Allegheny, Westmoreland Counties
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[12/31/2018]
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Housing Finance Agency Housing Plan Funded By Drilling Impact Fees Out For Public Review
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[12/31/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Overturns Decision Allowing Drillers To Avoid Act 13 Impact Fees
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[12/24/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Water Quality Certification For Proposed UGI Liquefied Natural Gas Truck Loading Facility In Berks County
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[12/24/2018]
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2 Natural Gas Power Plants Beginning Operations In Westmoreland, York Counties Have Combined Generating Capacity Of 1.7 Gigawatts
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[12/24/2018]
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Report: Investment In Natural Gas Pipelines, Infrastructure To Remain Strong Through 2035
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[12/24/2018]
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Op-Ed: Conservatives Should Lead The Way On Clean Energy That Creates Jobs, Prosperity
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[12/17/2018]
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Draft DEP Proposal To Cut Gas Well Methane Emissions Exempts Most Conventional Gas Wells Accounting For 50% Or More Of Methane Pollution
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[12/17/2018]
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Penn State Ground And Stream Water Research Reveals Clues To Shale Drilling Impacts
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[12/10/2018]
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Exelon To Retire 3 Landfill Gas Generation Facilities In Pennsylvania
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[12/10/2018]
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Natural Gas Distribution Companies Expect Little Change In Natural Gas Use In PA During Winter Heating Season, Slight Increase In Cost
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[12/10/2018]
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IFO Reports Natural Gas Production Increased 18.5% Over The 3rd Quarter 2017
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[12/10/2018]
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PUC To Livestream Dec. 11 PA One Call Pipeline, Utility Damage Prevention Committee Meeting
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[12/3/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds Decision Striking Down Protection Of School Property, Playgrounds, Species Of Special Concern In DEP Drilling Permit Process
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[12/3/2018]
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DEP Advisory Committee Meets Dec. 13 To Discuss Reg Limiting Emissions From Existing Oil & Gas Operations; Update On PA Air Quality
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[12/3/2018]
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Allegheny Institute: Time To Tighten Reporting On How Local Governments Spend Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fee Revenue
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[12/3/2018]
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DEP Invites Comments On Acid Rain Permit For Jessup Natural Gas Power Plant, Lackawanna County
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[11/26/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Agrees To Review Rule Of Capture Decision Saying Taking Natural Gas Without Permission Is Trespass
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[11/26/2018]
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DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Discuss Mock Drill Pad Restoration Project Nov. 28
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[11/26/2018]
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Penn State Extension Webinar Dec. 13: Unconventional Oil & Gas: Bringing Trusted Science To Decision-Making
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[11/19/2018]
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DEP Fines EQT $294,000 For Release Of 4 Million Gallons Of Abandoned Mine Drainage Into Monongahela River
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[11/19/2018]
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National Fuel Gas Company Accepts EPA Methane Challenge
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[11/19/2018]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[11/12/2018]
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Court Turns Back Challenge To Township Decision Allowing Drilling Based On Storage Of Drilling Wastewater, Environmental Rights Amendment
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[11/12/2018]
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PA League Of Women Voters Shale & Public Health Conference In Pittsburgh Nov. 14
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[11/5/2018]
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Commonwealth Court Upholds Local Zoning Ordinance Allowing Drilling In All Districts As Long As They Meet Standards
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[11/5/2018]
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DEP Launches ePermitting For Oil & Gas Well Drilling, Related Erosion & Sedimentation Permit
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[11/5/2018]
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PennDOT Announces Opening Of 14th CNG Transit Fueling Station In Indiana County
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[10/29/2018]
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Now Online: WITF Documentary Generations Yet To Come: Environmental Rights In Pennsylvania
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[10/29/2018]
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Aqua America Water/Wastewater Company To Acquire Peoples Gas For $4.2 Billion
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[10/29/2018]
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Penn State: Fracking Wastewater Accumulation Found In Freshwater Mussel Shells
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[10/29/2018]
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PennDOT Announces Opening Of 13th CNG Transit Fueling Station In Adams County
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[10/22/2018]
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Penn State: Agricultural Production And Shale Gas Development Webinar Nov. 15
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[10/15/2018]
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Business Groups Call For PA Energy Czar To Take Advantage Of Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Resources
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[10/15/2018]
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WITF Documentary: Generations Yet To Come: Environmental Rights In Pennsylvania, Oct. 25
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[10/15/2018]
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Gov. Wolf: President Trump Should Stand Up For Pennsylvania Refinery Workers On Ethanol Standard
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[10/15/2018]
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House Environment Committee Meeting Postponed On Natural Gas Royalty Bill
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[10/8/2018]
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POSTPONED-House Environment Committee Set To Meet Oct. 9 On Natural Gas Royalty Bill
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[10/8/2018]
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DEP Announces Revised General Permit Available On Oil & Gas Development Erosion & Sedimentation Control
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[10/8/2018]
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PUC Continues On-Site Mutual Aid To Massachusetts In Aftermath Of Natural Gas Line Explosion
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[10/1/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee OKs Bill To Weaken Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Standards
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[10/1/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Amends Critical Infrastructure Security Bill To Set Penalties For Intentional Vandalism
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[10/1/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee Hearing: Witnesses Outline What They See As Attempts By Foreign Entities To Stand In The Way Of PA’s Gas Development
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[10/1/2018]
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State Senators Again Seek To Intervene To Support Wayne County Landowner Lawsuit On Delaware Watershed Fracking Ban
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[10/1/2018]
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Penn State Extension: Oct. 23 Webinar On Addressing Orphan & Abandoned Wells From DEP, Industry Perspectives
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[10/1/2018]
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PUC Launches Utility Careers Campaign, Encourages Young People To Consider Opportunities With Utilities
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[10/1/2018]
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Pittsburgh Hosts SHALE INSIGHT 2018 Conference Oct. 23 - 25
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[9/24/2018]
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CFA Funds 359 Projects To Improve Water Infrastructure & Recreation, Restore Watersheds
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[9/24/2018]
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DEP: $469,501 Settlement To Resolve Civil Penalties For United Refining Company Violations In Warren County
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[9/24/2018]
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Waning Days Of Senate, House: Environmental Bills We’re Watching, Good And Bad
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[9/24/2018]
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Bill To Weaken Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Standards On Senate Environmental Committee Agenda For Sept. 25
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[9/24/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 25 On Controversial Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bill
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[9/24/2018]
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DEP To Hold Oct. 1 Hearing On Drilling Waste Injection Well In Allegheny County
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[9/24/2018]
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CFA Awards $850,000 Grant To Valley Energy, Inc. To Extend Natural Gas Pipeline In Bradford County
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[9/24/2018]
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Businesses Showcase Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions For Reducing Oil & Gas Methane Emissions In PA
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