Industry News

24 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Feb 3 – 9

For the week of Feb 3 – 9, the number of permits issued in the Marcellus/Utica to drill new shale wells remained healthy. Two weeks ago, 22 new permits were issued. Last week, the number increased to 24 new permits issued. The Keystone State (PA) issued 11 new permits last week. Nine permits went to…

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3 State Senators Intro Bill to Allow Fracking in….Maryland!

Something is going on in the State of Maryland. Last week, we told you that the Democrat leadership in the Maryland state legislature was pushing a bill that would rechristen gas-fired power as “green” and make it easier to build new gas-fired power plants in the state (see Maryland Dems Open Door for Gas-Fired Power…

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PA Gov.’s Carbon Tax Plan for Gas Power Blocking New Projects

Yesterday, MDN told you that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved a “fast-track” plan from the country’s largest electric grid, PJM Interconnection (which covers all or parts of 13 states, including PA, OH, and WV) to change how the grid operator decides which new power plants can connect to the system first (see FERC…

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PA Gov. Sues Trump Admin for Pausing $2B in Energy-Related Payments

What Elon Musk’s audits of federal money payments to NGOs, states, and individuals are finding is beyond shocking. It’s criminal. There is MASSIVE fraud happening across all of government. As you’ll read in another post today, Lee Zeldin, Trump’s new EPA Administrator, found $20 BILLION in money transfers from the EPA to a bank the…

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EPA Discovers Illegal $20 Billion Transfer from Biden’s Final Days

Two months ago, a video circulated on social media featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” intentionally rushing to get billions of tax dollars recklessly out of the agency before Inauguration Day. The EPA’s new sheriff, Lee Zeldin, has located $20 billion of those gold bars sitting at…

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EPA Close to Axing Rule That Regulates CO2 & Methane as Pollution

President Trump is close to taking an ax to the root of an EPA regulation that has allowed leftist environmentalists to rule the roost for the past 15 years. In 2009, the EPA adopted a major regulatory rule called the “endangerment finding.” The finding concluded that six so-called greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide (CO2), methane…

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Other Stories of Interest: Fri, Feb 14, 2025

MARCELLUS/UTICA REGION: Shell, API partner with CCBC to enhance process tech education center; OTHER U.S. REGIONS: Duke Energy removes climate language as it builds more gas plants; NATIONAL: Utilities want to power Big Tech’s AI ambitions with natural gas; Expand Energy new EVP of marketing & commercial; New GOP Congress podcast features talk about fracking;…

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