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Coronado Coal’s plan to develop a large underground mine in Forward Township was met with heavy community opposition. Now it's up to the township's board of supervisors to decide. bit.ly/3sxJrhI
Pennsylvania's environmental rule making board votes to adopt a carbon cap-and-trade program for fossil fuel power plants and join #RGGI by a vote of 15-4
No, Pittsburgh, you don't need to go panic-buy gas because of the recent pipeline cyberattack, experts say: post-gazette.com/business/power…
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Pittsburgh motorists shouldn’t panic-buy gasoline after Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, experts say
Here is a guide to whether you should be panicking over the cyberattack on the single most significant source of gasoline for the East Coast. Are you a...
With an arrest warrant out for a key business partner, a long-shot plan to keep 1,600 oil wells from being completely abandoned in the Allegheny National Forest is getting longer. w/ @AnyaLitvak, photos @andrewrush bit.ly/3xHz6SD
Billions down the hole? Yes please, Pennsylvania officials say as new federal money to plug old hazardous wells looks like a bipartisan favorite. w/@LauraLegere post-gazette.com/business/power…
Pa. utility rules turned an early solar project into "nothing but a money pit." Now, the state Supreme Court has thrown those rules out. w/ @AnyaLitvak bit.ly/2OhqGPD
Feds approve $52.4M to cleanup abandoned mine land sites in Pennsylvania (which has the most AML of any state.) The money comes as the federal AML trust fund is set to expire on Sept. 30 unless lawmakers can reach an agreement to reauthorize it. bit.ly/3e7mqNH
Pennsylvania's DEP has agreed to allow more public input on how and where shale gas drilling and fracking wastewater is processed and stored at 49 recently permitted gas well sites across the state. post-gazette.com/news/environme…
Energy policy that meets aggressive climate goals—Biden wants net-zero power sector emissions by 2035—will go through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led by Joe Manchin of West Virginia. bit.ly/2Ze1OKW
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Wielding a deciding vote in Senate, Joe Manchin brings Appalachian energy to climate debate
WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin knows how it may appear to climate advocates: a West Virginia senator and incoming chair of the Senate Energy and Natural...
Counties that produced nearly all of the Appalachian region’s natural gas between 2008-2019 lagged on traditional measures of economic prosperity, a report by @O_R_V_I found bit.ly/3qdGcKm
More people are using unemployment benefits to pay their bills. At the Dollar Energy Fund, only 70 grants went to a household that was surviving on unemployment in 2019. In the past 3 months, the organization has helped 276 people on unemployment. bit.ly/3b8IKoj
Pennsylvania isn't signing on to the Transportation & Climate Initiative, a regional carbon-cutting pact for cars, for now bit.ly/34ACz8q
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Pennsylvania opts out of carbon-cutting pact for cars, for now
The Commonwealth signed a joint statement with other states saying it will continue to collaborate on the regional initiative.
Against the odds, Consol is designing a new coal-fired power plant it says can be up and running in southwest PA in 2027. bit.ly/337IiSy
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Building a new coal-fired power plant? Consol proposes ambitious test to counter coal's dim outlook
It has been seven years since the last major new coal-fired power plant started making electricity in the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administration,...
Last month, new owners announced the Beaver Valley nuclear plant will remain open. But a nerdy federal dispute over the role of nuclear and renewables in the wholesale electricity markets could change the calculus on that plant's future all over again. bit.ly/2RTPY5t
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Fate of Beaver Valley plant could hinge on federal fight over nuclear payments in power markets
A federal dispute centers on how much state-subsidized power plants — like nuclear plants — are paid in the wholesale electricity market.
If companies fail, the commonwealth is likely to inherit the cleanup costs for abandoned wells. More than half of Pa.'s 51,000 active oil wells were drilled before 1984 and were not required to post any plugging bond.
With price collapse, Pa.'s precarious conventional oil industry faces a new crisis bit.ly/2UvGr4T
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With oil price collapse, Pa. industry 'already on its knees' faces a new crisis
The last time oil prices slumped, about four years ago, Mark Cline and his brother took a pay cut to try to avoid having to lay off several employees of...
"The Revolution pipeline — a 40-mile link between shale gas wells in Beaver and Butler counties and a processing plant in Washington County — slid down a steep hill one rainy September morning in 2018, bursting into flames." @AnyaLitvak reports: post-gazette.com/business/power…
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DOJ is building a criminal case around Energy Transfer’s Revolution pipeline explosion
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Paywall lifted: "After the Explosion," an interactive about a neighborhood coming to terms with rupture of Energy Transfer's Revolution pipeline. newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/after-the-expl…
@AnyaLitvak reports U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the 2018 natural gas #pipeline explosion in Beaver County. bit.ly/32viP4c
Coal power plant owners worry Gov. Wolf's plan to put a fee on carbon emissions will price them out of the market. But Pa. DEP has a plan to ease the burden on plants that burn waste coal piles. #RGGI bit.ly/2vBnVz7
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First draft of Pa. carbon-cutting rules aims to save waste coal plants
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