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Energy

In this Oct. 22, 2019 file photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East construction waiver requests include 16 sites across the state

It's not clear whether Pennsylvania has granted any or all of the company's requests.

6 years ago

Mariner East 2 construction site in Delaware County, Sunday March 22, 2020. (Courtesy of Eric Friedman)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Transfer seeks waiver to continue some Mariner East work

The company says the state has allowed some work to continue.

6 years ago

File photo: Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East construction shut down by governor’s order

An Energy Transfer spokesperson said that while product will continue to flow through the lines, the company is working to suspend construction on new sections of the pipe.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Wolf’s coronavirus shutdown order appears to include Mariner East pipeline construction

Construction on the Mariner East pipeline appears to be halted by Gov. Wolf’s new order that shuts down all “non-life-sustaining” operations and businesses.

6 years ago

File: A view inside the control room at PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric grid for 65 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia. (Courtesy of PJM Interconnection)
Science

Electricity usage down across the region, which helps power grid staffing

The Montco company, which helps power 65 million people in 13 states and D.C., reports demand on Monday dropped about 6,000 megawatts.

6 years ago

Nozzles pump gas into vehicles at a BP gas station. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Money

Gas prices plummet in N.J.

Drivers in New Jersey and across the nation are seeing plummeting gas prices amid concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and "the ongoing crude price war."

6 years ago

A drill worker covered in mud, shale, and drill cuttings seals off a well and cleans the blowout preventer at a Cabot Oil and Gas natural gas drill site in Kingsley, Pa.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Analyst: Oil price war might actually be good for Pa. shale industry

That could increase demand from the gas-rich Utica and Marcellus shale region in Pennsylvania, said Anne Robba, head of Americas gas & power for S&P Global Platts.

6 years ago

The transportation sector is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for roughly 40% of carbon pollution in New Jersey. (eutrophication&hypoxia CC BY2.0)
Science

Coalition calls for carbon cap-and-trade program across Northeast, Mid-Atlantic

IKEA, Hackensack Meridian Health among signatories to proposal for ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity to modernize and decarbonize our region’s transportation system’

6 years ago

Opponents of House Bill 1100 gather in the state Capitol on March 9, 2020. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Fight over natural gas tax break divides Pa. Democrats

Lawmakers in Harrisburg have never overridden a veto from Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf.

6 years ago

Antique clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass. Daylight saving time returns Sunday at 2 a.m. local time. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Daylight saving time is here again. So is the debate about changing the clocks

The dreaded "spring ahead" has finally arrived: On Sunday, March 8, the clock will jump one hour forward at 2 a.m. to mark the official start of daylight saving time.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of Exelon)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact PA

Peach Bottom nuclear plant gets 20-year license extension

Peach Bottom nuclear power plant can operate into the middle of this century, federal regulators say.

6 years ago

 A worker walks on top of a container of chemicals used in the making of a brine water that is then pumped below the surface in a hydraulic fracturing process to release natural gas from shale deposits at a gas well site in Zelienople, Pa. A new fee on gas drilling has generated millions of dollars more in revenue than first projected, but other major gas-producing states tax the industry at higher rates. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo, file)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Battleground 2020: the politics of energy

In this installment of Battleground 2020 we'll talk about energy politics in Pennsylvania and how the split in voters’ attitudes could influence the 2020 election.

Air Date: March 5, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
Shell's multi-billion dollar ethane cracker under construction in February, 2020. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Democrats could field an anti-fracking candidate in 2020. Can they win in Pennsylvania?

Voters seem split on the question of a fracking ban.

6 years ago

A sinkhole on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County revealed part of the Mariner East 1 pipeline. The sinkhole was caused by construction of the Mariner East 2 line, which cuts through unstable limestone. (Rosemary Fuller/Provided)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco to pay $200,000 fine, must increase oversight following investigation of aging Mariner East 1 pipeline

Public Utility Commission approves settlement, calls for 'remaining life' study

6 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company has said it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State’s denial of a permit for the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Constitution Pipeline project ends as builder cites ‘diminished’ return on investment

A pipeline builder has dropped a controversial project that would have routed fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale into New York.

6 years ago

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