Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear. Renewables are relatively small, at only 6%, but growing rapidly, having doubled from 2010 to 2019.

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Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2021

The decision essentially – and subject to possible appeals – answered in the negative the question of whether Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation prohibition on natural gas hookups to newly-constructed buildings (often termed a “natural gas ban”; herein referred to as the “Berkeley Ordinance”) was preempted by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On October 17, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary , a company that measures, analyzes and reports on methane emissions from natural gas production and distribution infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

On February 26, the Independent Fiscal Office reported 2023 Pennsylvania natural gas production was up 1.0% Total annual production was 7,520 billion cubic feet in 2023; 7,441 billion cubic feet in 2022; 7,563 billion cubic feet in 2021; 7,077 billion cubic feet in 2020; and 6,816 billion cubic feet in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Oil & Gas Wells Continue To Be Abandoned So far in 2024, DEP issued 767 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells, more than double the violations issued in 2019. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. 2019 Violations The environmental compliance record of Equitrans Midstreams is not encouraging.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2021

On July 14, the Pittsburgh International Airport became the first airport in the world to be completely powered by natural gas and solar energy as part of its newly live microgrid. The microgrid will generate power, in part, through onsite natural gas wells and 9,360 solar panels across eight acres.

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Natural Gas Electricity 2019 2020 98

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California has done well in terms of total emission reductions – about a 10% reduction from 2009 to 2019. Electric power related emissions went down about 40% from 2009 to 2019. Total direct transportation emissions in 2019 were about the same as those a decade earlier. What’s the Overall Verdict?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution 2012 2019 98

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) circulated a cosponsor memo announcing she plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for natural gas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line, LLC v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

The following notices were published in the March 29 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. PA Bulletin, page 2565 ) Read more here. -- Tennessee Gas Pipeline - Compressor Station 219: DEP to hold May 7 hearing on Title V RACT 3 Permit for the facility located in Jefferson Township, Mercer County. ( Luzerne County. (

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Natural Gas 2025 Electricity Recycling 104

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Center for Coalfield Justice will host an in-person and virtual public meeting October 5 in Cannonsburg, Washington County on studies being conducted on the health impacts of natural gas development. Of Health, DEP To Discuss Residents Impacted By Shale Gas Emissions [PaEN] -- Dept. Why Does It Matter?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway natural gas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste 2021 98

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

On February 11, Jon Hurdle of Inside Climate News reported the Department of Environmental Protection took nine days to inspect the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Washington County after an explosion and fire on Christmas Day. hours on Christmas Day. hours on Christmas Day.

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Natural Gas Cooling 2019 Environmental Protection 98

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Section 401 Water Quality Certification related to an Equitrans proposal to drill two new horizontal natural gas storage wells in the Swarts Complex and Hunters Cave Storage Fields in Center, Franklin, Morris and Washington Townships, Greene County. (

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Natural Gas 2019 Environmental Protection 2023 96

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It ordered Shell Oil, which is based in the Netherlands, to move rapidly to decarbonize its own operations and avoid selling products that would lead to carbon emissions — natural gas and gasoline, more specifically. Specifically, the court ordered Shell to cut emissions due to its products and operations 45% from 2019 levels by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

The well-- Wissinger 001-- is owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co. LLC that also had a conventional gas well explosion and fire on March 19 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Read more here. The March 25 e xplosion involved a production storage tank and occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

On March 13, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting Deputy for Oil and Gas Management, told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board the agency i s in discussions with Equitrans to resolve their appeal of DEP orders in December to fix conventional wells providing access to the Rager Mountain underground natural gas storage area in Cambria County.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Is this what we should expect from the natural gas industrial infrastructure in Washington County and Pennsylvania? December 25 Christmas Morning Explosion Kasey Duran and her family live about 1,500 feet from the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.

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Natural Gas 2022 2012 Environmental Protection 98

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

On March 9, Commonwealth Court issued a ruling overturning the Public Utility Commission’s 2022 order allowing PECO to construct a natural gas pumping station to serve retail customers in Marple Township, Delaware County and remanded the case back to the Commission for further review in line with the decision. Read more here.

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Natural Gas 2020 2022 2019 96

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 1990–2019. Global net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions include carbon dioxide from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes, net carbon dioxide from land use, land use change and forestry, methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases. trillion or 6.8%

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Paris Agreement 289

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

The original air quality permit for a proposed LNG plant in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County was issued by DEP on July 24, 2019. Photo: WNEP - Natural Gas Plant coming To Bradford County.) An unlawfully issued permit for a dangerous facility is being set aside, and residents can breathe easier as a result.”

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Pollution Control Environmental Protection 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Smaller vehicles and big fleets are leading the charge Where just a handful of zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed annually in the US just a few years ago (around 600 total in 2019), over 27,500 zero-emission MHDVs were deployed in 2023. While this represents a small fraction of the national MHDV sales (around 2.5

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Electricity Nitrogen Oxides 2023 2024 321

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper in August of 2021 on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. million, just in Pennsylvania.

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Natural Gas 2030 Natural Resources Environmental Protection 98

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

One way to better understand the impact the oil and gas industry has on the daily lives of Pennsylvanians is to read Oil and Gas Program inspection reports to see the kinds of violations DEP uncovers every day, week in and week out, as they inspect oil and gas wells and gas infrastructure across the state.

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Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas 2023 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 21, sixteen local and statewide environmental groups expressed their opposition to a proposed natural gas to gasoline refinery to be built in Luzerne County by Texas-based Nacero. Only one plant employing the technology exists in the world and that plant opened in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. See my colleague Mike Jacobs’ recent blog for more on LNG exports.) .

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2023

From July 29 to August 4, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 702 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 68 entries of environmental regulation new and outstanding violations-- 67 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 1 violation by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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Natural Gas 2023 Waste Atmosphere 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

billion project, is an interstate natural gas pipeline proposed to run from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019. How were grad student volunteers able to help delay a multi-billion dollar project?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

million penalty to DEP for the 2018 Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explosion in Beaver County. DEP also imposed a nearly a year-long permit bar on Energy Transfer Partners from receiving any new DEP permits between February 2019 and January 2020 because of its poor compliance record. [The Read more here.

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Natural Gas 2018 Environmental Protection 2017 98

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

A March 28, 2019 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions from the original July 18, 2018 inspection. An August 15, 2023 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions since the 2019 inspection report and issues violations for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2022

Note: “gas” in this post refers to what is traditionally called natural gas. For years, gas has been touted as a cheap fuel and a cheap electricity source. But not all gas-fired power plants are the same, and not all gas-fired power plants are as cheap to operate as proponents want us to believe.

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Law and Environment

JULY 29, 2021

NPSs avoid the need for investment in pipelines and traditional distribution system infrastructure by meeting on-system natural gas demand with alternative solutions like energy efficiency and heat pumps.

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Natural Gas Clean Energy 2019 2021 130

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

On August 17, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on the “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” which failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for the failure of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines over the last five years.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here.

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Natural Gas Electricity Clean Energy Renewable Energy 84

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

PaEN] -- -- Agencies Celebrate Eastern Hellbender License Plate Recognizing PAs Clean Water Ambassador; Shale Gas Development On DCNR Land Threatens Habitat [PaEN] -- Eastern Hellbender, Pollinator Habitat Vehicle License Plates Now Available From PennDOT [PaEN] [Posted: December 17, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Endangered Species Act 2011 Cooling Natural Gas 84

Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

One year ago, in October 2019, the European Commission made its position on the reform of the Energy Charter Treaty, the only multinational energy treaty that is in force since 1994, clear to the Energy Charter Secretariat. It is within this context that the new EU document surfaced.So

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