Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 11, 2023

Samsung Heavy Industries is on a roll, having netted roughly $12 billion in sales in 2021 and $9.4 Asia and Europe are thirsty for the liquefied natural gas its ships carry, mainly because their domestic manufacturers are paying high prices for natural gas. billion in 2022 — the same goal for 2023.

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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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make natural gas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and natural gas facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

DEP Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Well Plugging Grant Applications Due Dec. DEP Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Well Plugging Grant Applications Due Dec.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Carbon emissions from European Union countries were 18 percent greater in the second quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year, Reuters reported , though emissions remain lower than before the pandemic, consistent with the long-term decline.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2023

On May 31, the Independent Fiscal Office released its first quarter 2023 report on unconventional shale gas production in Pennsylvania showing quarterly production is down 118 billion cubic feet since the fourth quarter peak in 2021. When exports of LNG natural gas were in demand by Europe, prices spiked there and in Pennsylvania.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Natural Gas: 44.8%. Landfill Gas: 0.005%. Natural Gas/Fuel Oil: 39%. Natural Gas: 51%. Natural Gas: 42%. Natural Gas: 21%. Natural Gas & Oil: 6%. Natural gas: 28%. Natural Gas: 32%. Natural Gas: 38.46%. Coal: 2.5%.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And Pennzoil Company In Elk County [PaEN] PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald on April 30, 2023 -- Lawmakers were so eager to accommodate the natural gas industry nearly two decades ago that they opened the rich Marcellus Shale gas field without an adequate regulatory regime. Now, the state continues to play catch-up.

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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. The investigation revealed that Equitrans owned and operated a natural gas storage field, Pratt Storage Field, directly underneath the White home.

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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% increase in the fourth quarter, but production is still below 2021 numbers. The average Pennsylvania spot price for natural gas was $1.69, a decrease of $2.85 (-62.8%) from the prior year.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Upcoming Event: -- Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. Upcoming Event: -- Penn State Extension Hosts Dec.

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A natural gas company in Canada says they won’t generate enough electricity due to drought this summer. Manitoba Hydro, a natural gas company in Canada, said it doesn’t expect to generate enough electricity this winter to meet its export budget, thanks to dry conditions over the last several months across the Lake Winnipeg watershed.

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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

JULY 4, 2023

KDKA in Pittsburgh posted a report July 3, 2023 about the impact of the December explosion at the Energy Transfer natural gas processing plant and the plant’s continuing operations on a nearby Washington County farm family. million cubic feet of natural gas from a pipeline pigging station). Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

On March 16, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission approved proposed water withdrawals, including six natural gas drilling water use renewals totaling 7.1 The natural gas drilling water withdrawal renewals were-- -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC ( Fall Brook), Ward Township, Tioga County , PA.

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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. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line, LLC v.

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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

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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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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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. Loser: Royalty owners.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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 [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

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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 14, 2024

On January 12, the PJM Interconnection declared ‘Conservative Operations’ to maintain electric grid reliability forced by natural gas pipeline fuel restrictions brought on by winter weather impacts on their operations. No action is requested of the public.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad. DEP Inspection Reports: Kropp Well 1H and Kropp Well 7H.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2024

PJM also issued a Conservative Operations advisory on January 12 that will last through January 17 to maintain electric grid reliability as a result of winter weather impacts and pipeline fuel restrictions reported by natural gas pipeline operators. The natural gas prices changes ranged from a decrease of 64.2%

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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. NewsClip: -- AP: Attorney General’s Staff Meets With Dimock, Susquehanna County Residents Indicating Movement On Criminal Case Against Shale Gas Driller Related Articles: -- EQB To Meet Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. And earlier this year, gas plants failed at an alarming rate during Winter Storms Heather and Gerri. Unfortunately, this isn’t a rare problem.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

The report shows that between 2021-2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. Photos: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Dauphin County to be restarted to supply power to Microsoft data centers; 1,400 acre site of proposed data center project in Westmoreland County to be powered by 3 GW of natural gas-fired generation.)

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas. By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — August 4, 2021. Utilities can use this energy to power their own treatment works, or they can sell it back to the grid as renewable natural gas (RNG) or electricity.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The 2021-2022 City budget earmarked approximately $3.5 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. Additionally, Culver City and L.A.

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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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