Marie Cusick

Party affiliation and political ideology continue to play a big role in people’s views.

“States that levy a natural gas severance tax allow those costs to be treated like a post-production cost,” IFO director Matthew Knittel wrote.

Regulators are looking into health complaints after residents say a natural gas power plant being built near Scranton started emitting noxious, greenish-yellow smoke.

The EPA agreed to restore $325,000 in funding to the Bay Journal, a print and online news outlet covering environmental issues related to the Chesapeake Bay.

At the top of Governor Tom Wolf’s list of accomplishments on his reelection campaign website is an inaccurate claim he instituted a moratorium on natural gas drilling.

Pennsylvania is expected to bring in $46.1 million more this year from natural gas impact fees.

Many environmentalists say his record, so far, has been disappointing.

Gov. Wolf said Friday he never made a campaign pledge to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative —a market-based effort among northeastern states to limit carbon emissions

Rep. Curtis Sonney (R- Erie) said he’d like more transparency from DEP and DCNR about how the special fund money is being committed.

Construction on the pipeline began in September. It's being built to carry Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pa. to markets along the East Coast.

Methane is the main component of natural gas. Compared to carbon dioxide, it’s much more potent as a climate-warming greenhouse gas.

Advocates for Pennsylvania landowners are challenging a statement made recently by one of Governor Tom Wolf’s top aides, after saying complaints over gas royalties subsided.