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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

However, there is one notable exception: how much you pay for natural gas. Instead, they provide the gas industry with justification to increase prices in the name of jobs and national security. 19, natural gas costs $2.26 It’s focused on increasing the price of natural gas to increase its bottom line.

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CPUC Should Set a Date for Closing Aliso Canyon

Legal Planet

In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom called on the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to accelerate the closure of Aliso Canyon. However, following high gas prices in the winter of 2022-23, the CPUC permitted Southern California Gas Co. In this form, the proposal misses the mark.

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Delivery Vans are Going Electric: Where and Why

Union of Concerned Scientists

This tells us which fleets are deploying electric vehicles, which types of these vehicles are being deployed, and where. In 2023, electric cargo vans represented over seven percent of new registrations nationally for this vehicle type. One indicator of this progress is the growing share of zero-emission truck and bus registrations.

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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

PA Environment Daily

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here.

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Why the Climate Accountability Act Matters to Me—and Wisconsin 

Union of Concerned Scientists

I came to Madison ten years ago to pursue a masters in electrical engineering. Within this context, Wisconsin utilities are unique in their dogged pursuit of new gas capacity EIA data indicates that natural gas made up only 7% of U.S. Madison is our home.

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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

PA Environment Daily

Pipeline exposure projects are done ahead of underground longwall coal mining to prevent damage to natural gas and wastewater/water pipelines used by the shale gas industry that might otherwise subside and break as mining comes through the area.

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

VHC 4% Gas 27%*. American Electric Power. VHC 45% Gas 28%. VHC 21% Gas 32%. VHC 22% Gas 38.5%. Natural Gas: 44.8%. Landfill Gas: 0.005%. Natural Gas/Fuel Oil: 39%. Natural Gas: 51%. Energy Mix (2019): [link]. Natural Gas: 42%. Xcel Energy.

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