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What’s Been Killing U.S. Coal?

Legal Planet

Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. Since around 2008, natural gas use has been the mirror image of coal use. Gas had long been more expensive and more volatile in price than coal. But this could only have a contributing factor.

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Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro made as Attorney General to advance commonsense measures that prioritize public health and safety and ensure the natural gas industry is performing its work in line with the highest standards. The Governor's Office said the agreement helps further a promise Gov.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

In effect, the Court argued that for decisions of “such economic and political significance”—here, shifting electricity generation from one resource to another—there must be clear congressional authorization. In issuing its decision , the majority relied upon a new-to-the-Supreme-Court framework called the “major questions doctrine.”

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CNX CEO Tells DEP’s Citizens Council Their Monitoring Shows ‘No Material Impact’ To Air Or Water Quality From Natural Gas Development; Citizens Said CNX Lacks Scientific Rigor, Offers Misleading Greenwash

PA Environment Daily

On February 11, CNX Resources CEO Nicholas Deluliis told DEPs Citizens Advisory Council a year and a half of air and water monitoring shows no material impact to air or water quality from their natural gas development operations. Deluliis did a presentation to the Council on Radical Transparency, a program CNX launched with Gov.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 8.31.23

PA Environment Daily

Hours From A Repsol Oil Shale Gas Well; Temporary Evacuation Order Issued In Bradford County [PaEN] -- The Derrick: 6 Weeks After Water Supply Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater, Emergency Water Supply Distributions Continue In Village Of Reno, Venango County [ PDF of article ] -- TribLive: 5th Shale Gas Well Pad Planned In Frazer Twp.,

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2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA

PA Environment Daily

Read more here.] -- Coal-Powered Plants [ Note: Pennsylvania only has three remaining coal-fired power plants that haven’t announced plans to close due to competition from natural gas and now renewables. Just because you have an abundant supply of something, doesn’t mean you control demand or the price. Read more here.

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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

Following his service with DER, Paul worked as a Field Representative for the Joint Air & Water Pollution Control Conservation Committee (JLCC) for the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1981/1982. (In In 1969 Ralph W.