#PABudget: Severance Tax Dead on Arrival? Before yesterday’s budget presentation, we reported that House Speaker Mike Turzai received over $50,000 from stakeholders in the industry in the weeks following his promise to kill the severance tax in the 2015-2016 budget. Minutes after Governor Wolf gave his scolding budget speech, House leadership began promising to kill the tax…
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Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits
Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got Required Federal Permits Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science on the web Emails and documents…
Headlines Matter
Editor’s Note: Mark Lichty is the Executive Producer of the file, Groundswell Rising. On June 5, the Pocono Record carried a story with the headline, “Fracking Can be Done Safely, EPA says.” That headline is at best misleading. It gives the impression that it is being done safely, which in many cases is not true….
Enbridge Stuffs Provision into Wisconsin Budget to Expedite Controversial Piece of “Keystone XL Clone”
Enbridge Stuffs Provision into Wisconsin Budget to Expedite Controversial Piece of “Keystone XL Clone” Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science on the web. On Thursday,…
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County
Dimock, PA Lawsuit Trial-Bound as Study Links Fracking to Water Contamination in Neighboring County A recent peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed what many fracking critics have argued for years: drilling operations associated with hydraulic fracturing (“fracking) for oil and gas can contaminate groundwater. For the study, researchers examined groundwater contamination incidents…
BNSF Challenges Lawsuit From Engineer Who Ran For His Life From Exploding Oil “Bomb Train”
BNSF Challenges Lawsuit From Engineer Who Ran For His Life From Exploding Oil “Bomb Train” Editor’s Note: This is Steve Horn’s latest piece that originally appeared over at DeSmogBlog. Check out more of Steve’s work from DeSmogBlog and give everyone at DeSmogBlog some love – visit their site for some of the best research debunking misinformation about climate science on the web. Burlington…
Is Pennsylvania’s 5 Percent Drillers Tax Starting to Fizzle
Is Pennsylvania’s 5 Percent Drillers Tax Starting to Fizzle Author’s Note: This story was originally posted to the Rick Smith Show, where I am working as a producer and Capitol correspondent. Show some support by travelling over to the Rick Smith Show website, where we’ll have continuing coverage on the York School District take over. During…
Rolling Oil Bomb Cars Derail in Philadelphia, Luckily No Injuries
Rolling Oil Bomb Cars Derail in Philadelphia, Luckily No Injuries For the second time in a year, a rolling bomb car carrying crude oil derailed in Philadelphia. Earlier today, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported: The incident took place around 3 a.m. inside a CSX Corp. rail yard near 11th Street and Pattison Avenue, CSX spokesman Rob Doolittle said….
PA GOV. WOLF PURSUES DRILLING ON 700,000 ACRES OF STATE LAND
PA GOV. WOLF PURSUES DRILLING ON 700,000 ACRES OF STATE LAND Press Release: Energy Justice Network | January 29, 2015 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – On Thursday, Governor Tom Wolf will announce a moratorium on new oil and gas leases in state lands, but will leave nearly 700,000 acres of Pennsylvania’s 1.2 million acres of state forests on the table…
Environmental Groups Want More Protections After Wolf Bans Fracking in State Parks and Forests
Environmental Groups Want More Protections After Wolf Bans Fracking in State Parks and Forests Yesterday evening, the Associated Press reported that Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order banning fracking in Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests. Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests have been treated like a political football over the past three gubernatorial administrations. When Pennsylvania’s…
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