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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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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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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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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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Alaska Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

Circle of Blue

The summer of 2019 began with its usual verve, and as May turned to June turned to July, the height of the busy season, the sleepy town was still dreaming. A gravity-fed treatment facility rests below, and water flows naturally into a distribution system. Compared to 2019, the summer of 2022 was significantly wetter.

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Why the Climate Accountability Act Matters to Me—and Wisconsin 

Union of Concerned Scientists

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. The impact will be felt most acutely by outdoor workers and vulnerable populations including children, the elderly, and those who are pregnant.

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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

PA Environment Daily

Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2