An environmental group said it opposes a state Senate bill that seeks to separate regulations of oil wells from natural-gas wells. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council sent a letter to the state Senate railing against Senate Bill 1378, which was referred May 22 to...
An environmental group in Pennsylvania has sent a letter to lawmakers in the state Senate to voice its opposition to a bill that would require the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) to create separate regulations for conventional and unconventional wells. In...
First, the bad news. There is broad agreement that methane emissions from natural gas development in Pennsylvania and other states are a serious problem. Methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas and, absent adequate controls, methane leaks across the natural...
Incoming PEC President & CEO, Davitt Woodwell, talks to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about energy and climate Q: In terms of environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, where do you see Pittsburgh headed in the next 20 years? A: The Pittsburgh region...
Pittsburgh, Pa. — Two years after adoption of the Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan, Version 2.0, Pittsburgh Climate Initiative (PCI) is pleased to announce that 23 of the 35 Community chapter recommendations have been completed or are in progress. More than...
According to the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), construction on the 58th Street Greenway is about 75 percent complete, but driving along the future greenway in Kingsessing, it still looks like there is a lot of work remaining. The 58th Street...
Environmental protections built into natural gas drilling legislation that passed the state Senate on Tuesday convinced some environmental groups to endorse the bill with reservations even as others rejected it wholesale as a giveaway to the gas industry. The environmental...
About 20 miles from the spot in Pennsylvania where the oil industry was born 150 years ago, Howard Weltner and his neighbors pay every day for its offspring. On a hilltop above their Venango County village of Belmar, there are...