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2021 Law Natural Gas 
Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 28, 2021
By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – October 28, 2021. NextEra operates a natural gas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra operate natural gas plants in the state. The post 2021 Election Preview: The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports appeared first on Circle of Blue.
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Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water. Dernbach told Circle of Blue. It doesn’t need to be long.
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Circle of Blue
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. The mine cleanup law, however, no longer reflects current conditions.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2022
According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.
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Law Columbia
MARCH 27, 2025
City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 20, 2024
But just in case there was any doubt, UCS crunched the numbers to compare the different types of school buses from gasoline and diesel-powered option, to natural gas, electric and yes – even propane. The infrastructure law allows for some of the funds to be used for other types of buses including natural gas or propane-powered buses.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The featured speaker will be Luke Plants, a third-generation owner of Plants and Goodwin , leads an oil and gas field service company operating in the Appalachian Basin. He will describe how the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, new programs have been established to inventory and properly close orphaned wells.
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Legal Planet
MARCH 31, 2022
Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Natural Gas: 44.8%. Natural Gas/Fuel Oil: 39%. Natural Gas: 51%. Natural Gas: 42%. Natural Gas: 21%. Natural Gas & Oil: 6%.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Companies have a responsibility to abide by regulations that help maintain the health, safety, and welfare of the communities where they work, and my office will be here to enforce the laws if they fail to do that.”
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 24, 2022
Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.
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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. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
On November 29, the PA Supreme Court issued a ruling saying UGI Storage Company could be held liable for taking oil and gas drilling rights in a proposed 2,980-acre protective buffer zone around the 1,216 acre Meeker natural gas storage field in Tioga County. Click Here for a DEP fact sheet on Gas Storage Fields.
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 25, 2025
Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1 Read more here.]
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
The hearing also did not tackle the issue of why Pennsylvanians, sitting on top of one of the richest natural gas reservoirs in the world, have been subjected to natural gas cost increases of as much as 154 percent over the last year from utilities. Or, why a Susquehanna County Gas Company is proposing to raise rates 33.2
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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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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Daryl Metcalfe, Majority Chair of the House Environment Resources and Energy Committee, announced a September 20 “Wellhead to Stovetop - Conveying Energy in PA” hearing on natural gas and pipelines in Pennsylvania. In a March hearing, Rep. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
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Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The 2021-2022 City budget earmarked approximately $3.5 Wells Environmental Law Clinic has weighed in to explain the legal basis for local phase-out efforts. The amortization study will provide support for a reasonable (and legally-defensible) phase-out period for existing wells. million for an amortization study of oil sites.
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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. of Bordentown v. of Bordentown v.
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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. Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2022 In November 2022, Equitrans Midstream Corp.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,
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Energy & the Law
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
This change applies only to QC’s recorded after the effective date of Septmber 1, 2021. SB1259 hoses (can’t think of a dignified term) royalty owners by amending Natural Resources Code §91.402 to deny a common-law cause of action for breach of contract against a payor who withholds payments for a title dispute.
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PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 30, 2022
On August 29, the Environmental Hearing Board ruled in favor of three environmental groups in their appeal of the air pollution permit for the proposed Renovo Energy Center natural gas-fired power plant in Clinton County, finding the Department of Environmental Protection set limits for sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds too high.
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PA Environment Daily
APRIL 29, 2023
On April 24, DEP inspectors, responding to a citizen complaint, found two conventional wells continuing to vent natural gas in Hanover Township, Washington County. The DEP inspector found significant natural gas readings around the well head of the water well which has been disconnected from the house and is no longer in use.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
DEP originally permitted the gas-fired plant in April 2021, but Renovo Energy Center has failed to secure financing to move forward. Why in the world would DEP break the law just to ensure that a giant fossil fuel power plant can dirty the community’s air?
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
PA Bulletin, page 7428 ) -- Loan Asset Ossuer LLC - Series 2021 NG-1 Compressor Station: DEP approved an Air Quality Operating permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in West Finley Twp., PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- Nov.
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 23, 2023
On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here. Read more here.
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PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 3, 2022
Wolf in a formal statement published in the July 30 PA Bulletin and comes in the wake of the Governor allowing House Bill 2644 to become law without his signature. You can help DEP’s evaluation too by sending the problems you’ve had with conventional oil and gas drilling operations to DEP’s Oil & Gas Program email: ra-epoilandgas@pa.gov.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
On September 7, the Independent Fiscal Office reported second quarter natural gas production reached 1,859 billion cubic feet, an increase of 0.3% The last time quarterly natural gas production was 1,859 billion cubic feet or more was in the third quarter of 2022. The number of new shale gas wells drilled decreased 29.3%
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 21, 2022
After two extensions of the air quality permit, Bradford County Real Estate Partners was advised that construction would not be completed before the July 22, 2022 expiration date of the second extension and neither would the August 26, 2021 appeal of that extension be resolved before then. O’Neill, PennFuture Senior Attorney.
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
At a February 6 hearing of the House Republican Policy Committee , members and the natural gas industry recommended the need to remove roadblocks to faster permit reviews by DEP they said stand in the way of economic growth and lower natural gas prices. Read more here. They don’t want to sell their products on the cheap.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
On September 21, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation released its final report on Winter Storm Elliott in December saying major improvements are needed in the cold-weather reliability of natural gas systems. Please get that done.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 12, 2022
As the region's premier low carbon intensive natural gas development, technology, and applications company, CNX is uniquely positioned to help revolutionize Appalachia, one of the world's most energy abundant regions, into an energy, manufacturing, and technology hub of the future. On December 12, CNX Resources Corp.
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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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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The pace of companies abandoning conventional oil and natural gas wells without plugging them continues to accelerate in 2022 threatening to put Pennsylvania’s taxpayer-funded well plugging program even further behind. Conventional oil and gas well companies have so far shifted over $5.1 Read more here. Read more here.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
In rejecting this argument, the Court explicitly relied on a joint amicus brief from Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and Widener University Commonwealth Law School. In February 2021, the DRBC banned high-volume hydraulic fracking within the Delaware River Basin. Click Here for a copy of the procedural ruling. Reactions Sen.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2022
million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using natural gas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from natural gas. Pennsylvania needs to do better….
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. During DCNR’s last meeting with residents in March 2021, Deputy Secretary Norbeck asked neighbors to submit the rest of their questions and concerns in writing.
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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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Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. Its primary component is methane. EN: US infrastructure planning has a long history of discrimination.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
On November 5, a coalition of environmental organizations appealed a decision by the Allegheny County Health Department to grant a permit for the construction of a new Invenergy Allegheny Energy Center natural gas-fired power plant in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County. The objections are detailed in the Notice of Appeal.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 26, 2023
to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Streams Law, and the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act, that arose during Sunoco's construction of the Pennsylvania Pipeline Project – Mariner East II. The violations occurred between 2018 and 2021 in Chester, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Perry, and York Counties. (see
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Law and Environment
JULY 29, 2021
On July 12, 2021, in a landmark utility effort to electrify New York City’s building stock, Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) issued a request for proposals (RFP) for non-pipeline solutions (NPS). Such solutions must eliminate the need for customer connections to gas distribution infrastructure.
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 18, 2025
Original violation issued June 9, 2021. Diversified Prod LLC - Violations: Abandoned, Not Plugged Shale Well (43 Months) January 14, 2025 follow-up inspection of the Smith Unit 59H shale gas well in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Original violation June 9, 2021.
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