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Energy

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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Audit: Pa. Game commission didn’t track royalties from oil, gas

The Pennsylvania Game Commission failed to make sure that energy companies paid what they owed in royalties from oil and gas production on state hunting lands.

7 years ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at an energy summit hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and attended by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Science

Energy secretary says US can make oil, gas, coal cleaner

The Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said.

7 years ago

wind farm offshore
Money
NJ Spotlight

PSEG looks to benefit from — but not build — offshore wind developments

Rather than get involved in the construction side of emerging clean energy, PSE&G signals it will concentrate on energy management and transmission.

7 years ago

A drill rig in the Tiadaghton State Forest (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Wolf rejects Pa. Senate’s infrastructure proposal funded by forest drilling

After months of Governor Tom Wolf promoting a sweeping infrastructure plan funded by a tax on natural gas drillers, some Senate Republicans have come up with an alternative.

7 years ago

Workers push a partly assembled Mirai through the assembly line at Toyota's LFA Works in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Since there are so few hydrogen fuel cell cars manufactured, all of them are assembled by hand. (Hiroo Saso)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delaware, New Jersey lawmakers accuse EPA of deceit over clean car standards

In a letter, Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. Frank Pallone say EPA is listening to fossil-fuel interests over its own staff.

7 years ago

Belle Vernon Municipal Authority (Google Maps)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. AG investigating wastewater case from landfill that accepts fracking waste

The Pa. Attorney General’s office is investigating the disposal of contaminated water from a landfill that accepts fracking waste to a sewage treatment plant in Fayette County

7 years ago

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