methane

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has seen 1,154 oil and gas wells abandoned since 2020. In the past two and a half years, on the other hand, only 308 have be...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Regulatory sausage making is rarely a straight line from A to B. The gnarly path for oil and gas emissions rules required a new alp...

Methane, a byproduct of oil production and the primary product of natural gas production, has a key role in determining whether the world will be able...

From irresponsibly low taxation, to direct tax subsidies, to favorable zoning and much more, many state lawmakers relentlessly have pandered to the na...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Low-producing wells pump out just 6% of U.S. oil and gas each year but account for roughly half of the climate-warming methane that...

Only days after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that most nations aren’t meeting their commitments to reduce green...

Pennsylvania legislators long have refused to force gas drillers to stop methane leaks, even though doing so would help fight dangerous climate change...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania regulators have released a long-awaited final draft of rules to cut releases of smog-forming and climate warming air p...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Biden administration is advancing new rules for oil and gas wells and pipelines that are designed to improve safety and cut dow...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf has notched perhaps his biggest victory in his strategy to fight climate change in Pennsylvania, but climate-change activis...

As the human race takes a beat to consider its relationship with Mother Earth, the next great environmental cleanup in Pennsylvania may be at hand. Bi...

The coronavirus has thrown the shale gas industry into flux. Worldwide oil prices have collapsed, and America’s shale sector has lost 50% of its value...

From January to December 2019, there were 29,633,439 Mcf of natural gas and 325,654 barrels of crude oil produced in McKean County, according to the s...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Following the explosion of a home on West Branch Road in November, a private group that has stepped forward to help ease the worries ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is accepting public comments on the draft final general permits that address meth...

HARRISBURG — With the results of a new study and development of an interactive mapping tool, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection h...