Nation, News, PA State News
Dec 11, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — For years, Pennsylvania regulators have been concerned that if something like the massive gas leak that raged in Cambria County las...
News, PA State News
Nov 18, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — On Thursday night, Equitrans Midstream Corp. said its contractors had successfully flooded the troubled Cambria County storage well...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 15, 2022
Methane, a byproduct of oil production and the primary product of natural gas production, has a key role in determining whether the world will be able...
Business, News, PA State News
Nov 03, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Revenue from Pennsylvania’s shale gas impact fee collection is on track to yield a record $275 million this year, largely on the ba...
News
Sep 12, 2022
OLEAN, N.Y. — Federal officials have made three trips to the Olean area to survey for abandoned oil wells. A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s...
PA State News
Jun 23, 2022
Surging natural gas prices could raise Pennsylvania's impact fee revenue from shale gas wells to new highs this year and shrink its effective tax rate...
News, PA State News
Apr 23, 2022
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Low-producing wells pump out just 6% of U.S. oil and gas each year but account for roughly half of the climate-warming methane that...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 08, 2022
HARRISBURG — As the public comment period on the Delaware River Basin Commission’s latest round of anti-fracking regulations winds down, I’m reminded ...
Business, News, PA State News
Dec 11, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania regulators have released a long-awaited final draft of rules to cut releases of smog-forming and climate warming air p...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 23, 2021
Joe Biden turned 79 last week. He’s beginning to look his age. The president walks a little more stiffly now. His diction, once clear, sometimes sound...
News, PA State News
Nov 19, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will formally study petitions seeking to require oil and gas well owners to...
News, PA State News
Nov 05, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The Biden administration is advancing new rules for oil and gas wells and pipelines that are designed to improve safety and cut dow...
News, PA State News
Oct 18, 2021
In late September, the Montana-based Well Done Foundation plugged its first orphan oil well in Pennsylvania: a 19th-century relic in McKean County tha...
News, Online Features
Sep 25, 2021
STATE COLLEGE — An orphaned well in a Bradford family’s yard is the first in a series of wells to be plugged through a partnership program of the Well...
Business, News
Sep 22, 2021
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — State and national environmental groups are petitioning Pennsylvania’s environmental rule-making board to start requiring oil and g...
News
Jul 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., and Congressman Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., introduced the Plugging Orphan Wells and Environmental ...
News
Jul 03, 2021
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Allegheny National Forest, is accepting public comments on a proposal to plug eighteen orphaned an...
News
Jul 01, 2021
HARRISBURG — Natural gas production in Pennsylvania increased while new well drilling decreased in 2020, according to the 2020 Oil and Gas Annual Repo...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 10, 2021
As the human race takes a beat to consider its relationship with Mother Earth, the next great environmental cleanup in Pennsylvania may be at hand. Bi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 17, 2021
Perception can be a tricky thing. Motivational speaker Wayne Dyer noted, “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” Simple...
Lifestyles
April 23, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My oldest daughter, “Alexa,” is breaking my heart. She’s engaged to a nice enough man she’s been with for five years, but she has cast asid...
Lifestyles
April 23, 2025
Dear Heloise: In a recent column, comments came in about high water pressure in the home and how to respond. The best answer is to go to your local ha...
News, Round the Square
April 23, 2025
SMILE: Early in the morning, before sunrise on April 25, the dark sky will hold a rare sight — a smiley face. Really. The planets Venus and Saturn wil...
Business, Local News, News
April 23, 2025
SMETHPORT — In 2022, the McKean County Conservation District purchased a no-till drill for McKean County landowners to rent. During the past two years...
Press Releases
April 23, 2025
New The Executive Leadership Council survey spotlights the evolving priorities, skillsets, and leadership demands redefining success in today's evolvi...
Press Releases
April 23, 2025
The second annual awards address economic instability with editors' choice award for rising grocery prices. WASHINGTON , April 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -...
