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Energy

A natural gas worker on a rig in Susquehanna County in 2012. A StateImpact/Franklin & Marshall poll out Thursday shows a majority of registered voters, 69 percent, favor policies that would promote renewable wind and solar power over fossil fuel sources like coal and natural gas. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy

How perceptions about natural gas production, climate change have changed

New polling finds most Pennsylvanians are concerned about climate change.

8 years ago

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Protesters outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC. The agency has announced plans to limit public comments on pipeline projects if the comments are submitted outside the deadline. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

FERC’s critics, and two commissioners, say new comment policy will hurt landowners

FERC says it will limit public interventions in its pipeline review process if they are submitted outside the prescribed time.

8 years ago

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. Photo: Reid R. Frazier

At the Steamfitters Union Local 449 near Pittsburgh, apprentices practice pipe welding in the union's new training facility. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

In Pennsylvania, unions throw political weight behind natural gas

Nationwide, fewer than 5 percent of workers in oil, gas, and mining are unionized, about half the national average.

8 years ago

State Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, listens to his constituents lobby him about renewable energy proposals. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

Lobbyist, lawmakers entwined in complex relationship: Is it influence peddling, or essential?

There are more than 1,200 registered lobbyists in Harrisburg.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the largest refiner on the East Coast, was relieved of some of its obligations to buy renewable fuel credits in an agreement with the EPA. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

PES bankruptcy plan approved by court

8 years ago

A sign on farmland near Palmerton in northeast Pennsylvania shows local opposition to the PennEast pipleline. In order to build the pipeline, PennEast Pipeline Co. is trying to seize through eminent domain some lands that are under farmland preservation.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

N.J. files in federal court to stop PennEast from condemning protected land

8 years ago

Marianne and Rick Atkinson with their dog Spot, on their property in Clearfield County. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Wastewater well opposed by some Pa. residents secures state permit

Marianne Atkinson of Brady Township said her family’s water well is 900 feet from the proposed injection site.

8 years ago

Teenagers take turns jumping into the Musconetcong river just below the Asbury Mill Dam. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Federal budget includes $5M for Delaware River clean up

The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday unexpectedly brought good news for environmentalists.

8 years ago

Scott Reynolds, owner of Express Transmission in Beaver County, shows an array of gas cap adapters. The adapters are used as a part of Pennsylvania's vehicle emission testing program. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Could some Pa. counties scrap the annual vehicle emissions test? A study aims to figure that out

Emission tests are required in 25 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

8 years ago

This 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Report: Severance tax proposal could cost Pa. mineral owners millions

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

8 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Groups oppose another coal mining permit in Greene County state park

They argue that longwall mining, the technique Consol would use to mine beneath the stream, can cause ground beneath streams to fall in.

8 years ago

In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. (Ralph Wilson/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

StateImpact Pennsylvania invites public to forum in Towanda on natural gas royalties

Join StateImpact Pennsylvania for an educational forum to learn how other states handle natural gas royalty payments and what’s being done about the controversy.

8 years ago

A smoke stack at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

PES likely to resolve growing objections to its bankruptcy plan, analysts say

Philadelphia Energy Solutions is meeting more resistance to its plan to reorganize while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

8 years ago

From left to right: Melissa DiBernadino, Goshen United for Public Safety, Rebecca Britton, Uwchlan Safety Coalition, and Andrew Williams, Environmental Defense Fund, testified Tuesday at a joint senate hearing on pipeline safety.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Mariner East pipeline problems take center stage at state Senate hearing

8 years ago

 Philadelphia Energy Solutions is the largest oil refining complex on the Eastern seaboard. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

State says PES owes $3.8 billion in back taxes, urges court hold up bankruptcy plan

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is urging a federal bankruptcy court to withhold approval of a bankruptcy petition by Philadelphia Energy Solutions

8 years ago

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