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PA DEP Wants to Study Health Effects of Living Near Abandoned Wells

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) wants to spend some of the $214+ million it’s receiving from the federal government’s Phase 1 & 2 program to plug orphaned conventional oil and gas wells on a research project to determine the potential health impacts of living near such wells. You may recall the flawed (totally…

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PA DEP Spending WAY Too Much to Plug Abandoned/Orphaned Wells

Last Thursday (Sept. 12), the Pennsylvania State Senate Republican Policy Committee held a hearing in Pittsburgh to explore ways to simplify and make more effective PA’s expanded abandoned and orphan conventional oil and gas well plugging programs. As a reminder, abandoned wells are those with no production for at least 12 months in a row….

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Attorneys General Urge SCOTUS to Allow a Challenge to Blue-State Climate Lawsuits: We “Have No Other Option”

The biggest challenge to climate litigation against energy producers to date is now fully briefed and awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the lawsuit can move forward.  Reminder: in May, nineteen Republican state attorneys general asked the high court to block climate lawsuits brought by California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island, arguing that

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South Carolina Attorney General Asks Court to Dismiss Charleston Climate Lawsuit; Puts Mayor in Tricky Spot

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson last week urged a court to throw out Charleston’s climate lawsuit against energy producers – marking a unique instance of a state attorney general calling out the lack of merits of a municipality’s case. In a amicus brief filed on September 4, Wilson cited the recent dismissal of Baltimore’s lawsuit and noted that the lawsuit

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