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."
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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.
Energy Transfer facing 9 counts of environmental crimes for 2018 pipeline blast
A grand jury report finds the company failed to properly oversee construction and erosion controls that led to an explosion in Beaver County.
Analysts forecast rise in oil and gas impact fees after prices rose in 2021
Gas drillers are expected to pay about $234 million dollars in impact fees for 2021, nearly $90 million more than 2020, and potentially the highest payout ever.
Wolf administration gives $2.7M to cleaner transportation projects, including ones powered by fossil fuels
The projects replace gasoline or diesel-fueled vehicles with ones that run on cleaner fuels, which can be fossil fuel-based. Enviro group calls the program "antiquated."
