11-16-2020

With climate challenges looming, Seth Shapiro faces a tough balancing act at Philadelphia’s gas utility
Philadelphia Gas Works got its start in 1836 manufacturing gas for publicstreet lights. The production of gas from coal was a foul business, but onecould argue that it was an environmental trade-off since fossil fuelseventually displaced whale oil in the lighting market. Whales were spared...- Philadelphia Inquirer

11-16-2020

State Climate Action Unlikely After Democrats Fail to Flip Statehouses
Amid predictions of a November Democratic election sweep, climate leadersin states including North Carolina, Arizona and Pennsylvania were hopefulthey could finally pass legislation to bolster clean energy, cut emissionsand limit fossil fuel development.But while President-elect Joe Biden found success at the top of the ticket,...- Stateline.org

11-15-2020

Regulators order Revolution Pipeline owners to further stabilize slopes
Pennsylvania.s Department of Environmental Protection issued an order thisweek preventing ETC Northeast Pipeline, a subsidiary of Dallas-based EnergyTransfer, from putting any liquid in areas of the line running throughunstable hillsides or steep slopes. Regulators identified 26 sections of...- Beaver County Times

11-12-2020

How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil
In early 2017, the Texans for Natural Gas website went live to urge votersto .thank a roughneck. and support fracking. Around the same time, theArctic Energy Center ramped up its advocacy for drilling in Alaskan watersand in a vast Arctic wildlife refuge. The next year, the Main Street...- New York Times

11-11-2020

Renewable Power Grows Strongly, Despite the Pandemic
The energy industry has experienced its worst year in decades because ofthe pandemic, but clean sources for generating electricity have stillmanaged to grow, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.Consumption of electricity generated by wind, solar and hydroelectric...- New York Times

11-10-2020

Federal court grants stay of Mountain Valley Pipeline waterbody construction
The Mountain Valley Pipeline’s legal limbo continued Monday as a panelof federal judges granted a stay of construction of the pipeline acrossabout 1,000 waterbodies in West Virginia and Virginia.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay following oral...- Charleston Gazette-Mail

11-09-2020

DEP accepting public comments for greenhouse gas initiative
The next round of public comment regarding Pennsylvania’s entry intothe Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has begun.The state Department of Environmental Protection said its EnvironmentalQuality Board began accepting public comments this past weekend and will...- Indiana Gazette