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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — For years, Pennsylvania regulators have been concerned that if something like the massive gas leak that raged in Cambria County las...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On Thursday night, Equitrans Midstream Corp. said its contractors had successfully flooded the troubled Cambria County storage well...

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...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Revenue from Pennsylvania’s shale gas impact fee collection is on track to yield a record $275 million this year, largely on the ba...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Federal officials have made three trips to the Olean area to survey for abandoned oil wells. A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s...

Surging natural gas prices could raise Pennsylvania's impact fee revenue from shale gas wells to new highs this year and shrink its effective tax rate...

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...

HARRISBURG — As the public comment period on the Delaware River Basin Commission’s latest round of anti-fracking regulations winds down, I’m reminded ...

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

Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will formally study petitions seeking to require oil and gas well owners to...

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...

In late September, the Montana-based Well Done Foundation plugged its first orphan oil well in Pennsylvania: a 19th-century relic in McKean County tha...

STATE COLLEGE — An orphaned well in a Bradford family’s yard is the first in a series of wells to be plugged through a partnership program of the Well...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — State and national environmental groups are petitioning Pennsylvania’s environmental rule-making board to start requiring oil and g...

WASHINGTON — Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., and Congressman Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., introduced the Plugging Orphan Wells and Environmental ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Allegheny National Forest, is accepting public comments on a proposal to plug eighteen orphaned an...

HARRISBURG — Natural gas production in Pennsylvania increased while new well drilling decreased in 2020, according to the 2020 Oil and Gas Annual Repo...

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...

Perception can be a tricky thing. Motivational speaker Wayne Dyer noted, “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” Simple...