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PA Judge Says Mariner East Pipe Didn’t Have Eminent Domain 12 Yrs Ago

A Washington County, PA, judge is closing the barn door about 12 years late. On February 7, Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Brandon P. Neuman ruled Sunoco Pipeline, LLC (i.e., Energy Transfer) did not have the eminent domain authority to take property for the Mariner East Pipelines in 2013 from Bradley and Amy…

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CNX Data Shows “No Material Impact” to Air & Water from Drilling

CNX Resources’ Radical Transparency™ program is a first-of-its-kind public-private collaboration announced between CNX and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in November 2023 (see CNX Signs Deal with PA Gov. to Increase Setbacks, Other Changes). We’re no fans of Josh Shapiro, a guy who repeatedly attacked the Marcellus industry when he was Attorney General, but sometimes you…

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Roulette O&G Dinged by PA DEP for Inactive Well in Potter County

Roulette Oil & Gas drilled the Guardian Pad B 6H shale gas well in February 2011 in Hebron Township, Potter County. The well was granted inactive status on September 7, 2012. The inactive status expired on September 7, 2017. At that point, the well should have been plugged but was not. On August 23, 2023,…

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CNX Bypasses NGOs, Directly Funds School Lunches, Veterans, Others

There are a lot of nonprofits that do a lot of great work. MDN editor Jim Willis has served on several boards of such groups. We say that to preface two posts today that take aim at nonprofits (otherwise called NGOs or nongovernmental organizations) that are NOT doing great work and, in some cases, are…

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Trump Pulls the Plug on Taxpayer $$ Flowing to Enviro NGOs

Last week, President Trump issued a directive to the heads of Executive Branch agencies to review all funding said agencies provide to NGOs (nongovernmental organizations). The aim is to pull the plug on funding NGOs engaged in actions that actively undermine the security, prosperity, and safety of the American people. There’s a LOT of corruption…

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West Virginia Leads AG Coalition Suing New York Over “Devastating” Climate Superfund Bill

Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to global climate change. In comments to Fox News Digital, AG

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EOG’s Donald F. Textor to Retire from Board

Textor was first elected a director of EOG Resources in 2001, where his counsel played a key role in EOG’s growth, Chairman and CEO Ezra Y. Yacob said in a press release. This post appeared first on Hart Energy.

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Trump Admin, States Want to Unleash Carbon Capture

Texas’ leading business associations are calling on the EPA to accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment – the latest in series of efforts that show states and the Trump administration are eager to boost the technology and capitalize on increased momentum. In a joint letter sent Tuesday,  the business community in Texas urged the

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Anti Groups “Demand” OH Governor Pause Drilling Under State Parks

We’ve made this observation many times over the years, but here we go again. Ever notice how lefty environmentalists “demand” this and “demand” that? They’re a very demanding bunch, which is why nobody pays them any attention (except us). Here’s the latest example. A group of 30 “organizations” (many of them fronts for one or…

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