Atlantic Shores seeks to cancel offshore wind contract with N.J., but says it hasn’t abandoned the project
Natural Gas Leak Capped After 20 Days Julie Grant·March 9, 2018It's estimated that 100 million cubic feet of natural gas and other substances, like brine water, spewed out of the well each day. EnergyNewsPollution
Environmental Group: Methane Pollution Higher Than PA Thinks Reid Frazier·February 16, 2018An environmental group says that Pennsylvania’s gas drilling industry is releasing much more methane into the atmosphere than the state is reporting. Climate ChangeEnergy
Pittsburgh Suburbs Decide as Fracking Comes Near: Welcome it, or Resist? Reid Frazier·February 9, 2018In suburban Pittsburgh, suburbanites and elected officials now have to decide what to do about fracking in their backyards. Energy
Judge Fines Environmental Attorneys $52,000 for ‘Frivolous’ Injection Well Suit Reid Frazier·January 18, 2018“It’s Grant Township’s hope that our attorneys will wear this slap as a badge of courage, just as any front line veteran would wear a scar.”EnergyEnvironmental Justice
Power Grid Bracing for ‘Bomb Cyclone’, Bitter Cold Reid Frazier·January 3, 2018The region’s grid operator says it’s better prepared to deal with the coming winter misery because of the Polar Vortex of 2014.Energy
Living With Oil and Gas Leigh Paterson·December 22, 2017As more drilling rigs encroach on subdivisions across the country, what happens when people and oil and gas become neighbors?EnergyPollution
Well pad fire in Somerset County prompts evacuation of nearby residents Reid Frazier·December 1, 2017Some Somerset County residents were evacuated Thursday morning after firefighters responded to a fire on a natural gas well pad.Energy
Group Challenging Drilling Law in Pittsburgh Suburb Reid Frazier·November 10, 2017A group of residents in Westmoreland County hopes a judge will halt expansion of gas drilling in their township, and will throw out a zoning ordinance that allows drilling in most of the community.EnergyPolitics
Big Power Plant Ignites Political Fight in Small Pennsylvania Town Center for Public Integrity·November 4, 2017The biggest new natural-gas power plant in a state awash with them is taking shape on a mountain ridge overlooking the community it cleaved apart.Energy
Natural Gas Building Boom Fuels Climate Worries, Enrages Landowners Center for Public Integrity·August 4, 2017Companies have asked a federal regulator to approve thousands of miles of pipeline from Appalachia. They almost always get their way.EnergyPollution
