Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund founder Thomas Linzey has made it clear that he has no issue with bankrupting towns to push his anti-energy “Rights of Nature” agenda. For one rural community in Pennsylvania, that’s exactly what could happen following a federal court ruling this week that found the Indiana County township financially responsible for
Read More...West Virginia Governor Jim Justice vetoed legislation this week that would have provided needed funding to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection for plugging the state’s more than 4,000 orphaned and abandoned oil and natural gas wells. While Gov. Justice acknowledged the revenue that would have been generated by HB 2673 – up to
Read More...Natural gas development in the Appalachian Basin continues to reshape the domestic energy landscape, as recent production reports from the region illustrate. New figures released by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources show production in the Buckeye state set a new state record in the latest quarter. Likewise, a recent report out of Texas shows
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