EPA asks a Bitcoin ‘mining’ operation in Clearfield County for information
Big Dog Energy installed 30 natural gas-powered generators and a gas-producing unit at a well pad without authorization from DEP. Now, EPA is involved.
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An industry campaign re-brands natural gas as climate-friendly to people of color
The $10 million dollar campaign is to improve the opinion of natural gas to make sure it doesn't go the way of coal.
Gov. Wolf vetoes GOP effort to block local climate legislation
The bill is part of a nationwide effort to stop municipal bans on natural gas hook-ups in buildings. Wolf said it would hamper local climate efforts.
For a rural Pennsylvania area, a cryptocurrency mine brought noise pollution
One neighbor describes the noise coming from the Bitcoin mining site at a nearby gas well as “basically like a jet engine."
Impact fees from drilling rebounded in 2021 after pandemic slowdown
Natural gas companies in Pennsylvania are paying $234.4 million in impact fees, the highest amount since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pennsylvania natural gas hits highest price in last decade, report says
Natural gas prices hit an average of $4.10 per million British thermal units in the first three months of 2022.
Wolf touts Pennsylvania’s bid for a low-carbon hydrogen hub that relies on fossil fuels
Hydrogen fuel’s only by-product is water. But Pa.'s proposal for a federally-funded hydrogen hub would use natural gas to create hydrogen.
Low-producing oil and gas wells emit lots of methane, study finds
Low-producing wells provide just 6% of oil and gas production in the U.S. But a new study found they emit half of the industry's climate-warming methane.
Pennsylvania gas producers look to export to Europe amid Russian invasion of Ukraine
But ramping up enough gas to replace Russian sources won’t happen overnight. It could take "a period of years."
Pennsylvania led gas-producing states in growth in 2021
A new report credits the increase to unusually high gas prices in the second half of the year.
