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Energy

Calpine's York 2 Energy Center is an 828 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in York County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate focus intensifies in Harrisburg, as budget negotiations and citizen-led petition advance

Parallel efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania — a citizen climate petition and a provision in the state budget — are topics of discussion in Harrisburg.

6 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

US Steel’s Clairton plant pollution controls knocked out again by another fire

The second fire at US Steel's Clairton plant in six months could send SO2 levels up again.

6 years ago

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

PUC launches review of safety regulations on hazardous liquids pipelines

After criticism of its handling of Mariner East, the commission said the ‘time is ripe’ to enhance rules.

6 years ago

Opposition to the proposed liquefied natural gas plant in Philadelphia protest in city council chambers Thursday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Philly’s getting two new gas plants — unless neighbors can stop them

PGW just won Council approval, while SEPTA’s facility is nearly done.

6 years ago

The York 2 Energy Center in Peach Bottom Township, York County is an 828 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant co-located with the 565 megawatt York Energy Center. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Money
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Nation’s largest power grid operator grapples with carbon pricing

PJM Interconnection manages the flow of wholesale electricity in all or part of 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states and the District of Columbia.

6 years ago

Opposition to the proposed liquefied natural gas plant in Philadelphia protest in city council chambers Thursday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia City Council approves PGW’s $60 million liquefied natural gas plant

In a 13-4 vote, Philadelphia City Council approved a new $60 million LNG facility, despite the opposition of environmental groups.

6 years ago

In this file photo, environmental groups campaign to convince legislators to ban fracking and not to accept wastewater from fracking operations in New Jersey. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Community

Environmentalists call for full fracking ban in the Delaware River watershed

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the multistate agency that oversees the Delaware River watershed to ban fracking and related activities.

6 years ago

Pipelines run from the offshore docking station to the four LNG tanks capable of holding 2.5 billion cubic feet of LNG apiece as shown Friday, June 13, 2003, at the Dominion Liquified Natural Gas facility in Cove Point, Md. (Matt Houston/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

DRBC confirms plan to build LNG export terminal at new South Jersey port

The agency said it only ‘recently’ learned of the plan to load potentially explosive liquids onto tankers in Gloucester County.

6 years ago

Crews battled a fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery on Monday night (NBC10)
PlanPhilly
Community

Philly refinery fire under investigation; pollution impact unclear

Air quality experts say the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery fire released enough particulate matter to affect neighbors.

6 years ago

A Bradford County drilling rig.
Politics & Policy

Wolf’s infrastructure plan has bipartisan support, but not from leaders

The plan is intended to fund a range of infrastructure improvements, from roads to flood prevention.

6 years ago

In this June 3, 2019 photo the New York City skyline is in the background of the Raritan Bay as seen from Middletown, N.J.  New Jersey environmental officials are due to decide Wednesday, June 5 on key permits for a nearly $1 billion pipeline that would bring natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, out into Raritan Bay and into the ocean before reaching New York and Long Island. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Community

Firm to reapply for permits to build northeast gas pipeline

An company says it will reapply to build a hotly contested pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pa. through N.J., and under a bay and the ocean to New York.

6 years ago

In this June 3, 2019 photo Cindy Zipf, executive director of the Clean Ocean Action environmental group, discusses a plan to build a natural gas pipeline that would run near this Middletown, N.J,. fishing depot. New Jersey environmental officials are due to decide Wednesday, June 5 on key permits for a nearly $1 billion pipeline that would bring natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, out into Raritan Bay and into the ocean before reaching New York and Long Island. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Opponents hope New Jersey scuttles gas pipeline to New York

New Jersey environmental officials are due to decide Wednesday on several permits for the proposed Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline.

6 years ago

A Range Resources well site in Washington County in 2018. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Document reveals Range Resources, others agreed to $3M settlement in Western Pa. contamination suit

The public document doesn't specify how much money was distributed among plaintiffs.

6 years ago

Pipelines run from the offshore docking station to the four LNG tanks capable of holding 2.5 billion cubic feet of LNG apiece as shown Friday, June 13, 2003, at the Dominion Liquified Natural Gas facility in Cove Point, Md. (Matt Houston/AP Photo)
Science
NJ Spotlight

Plans for LNG terminal in South Jersey kept under wraps, enviro group says

Developer and agencies deny effort to shield from public view plans that would allow for transfer of potentially explosive liquefied natural gas to ocean-going tankers.

6 years ago

A Range Resources well site in Washington County in 2018. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judge bars release of document in gas drilling suit

A judge has issued a court order barring The Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania and 90.5 WESA from publishing a publicly available legal document.

6 years ago

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