PA Senate Bill Advances to Punish Counties that Ban Fracking

The Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee was busy yesterday. In a companion post today, we told you about… Continue reading The post PA Senate Bill Advances to Punish Counties that Ban Fracking first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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How the Inflation Reduction Act’s Onerous New Methane Tax Works

After the shocking news that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin had sold out his state and the entire country by agreeing… Continue reading The post How the Inflation Reduction Act’s Onerous New Methane Tax Works first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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RGGI Carbon Tax Super High, Latest Auction Averaged $13.45/Ton

The so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a tax on carbon dioxide emissions from coal and natural gas-fired power plants… Continue reading The post RGGI Carbon Tax Super High, Latest Auction Averaged $13.45/Ton first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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PA Supreme Court Keeps Block in RGGI Carbon Tax in Place, For Now

In a small but important victory against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s effort to force the state to join the Regional… Continue reading The post PA Supreme Court Keeps Block in RGGI Carbon Tax in Place, For Now first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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A Closer Look at New Manchin Methane Tax – Part of IRA

After the shocking news that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin had sold out his state and the entire country by agreeing… Continue reading The post A Closer Look at New Manchin Methane Tax – Part of IRA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Windfall Profits Tax on Ohio Oil & Gas Discussed by Economists

Earlier this year, one of the biggest nutjobs in Congress, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat-RI), introduced an excise tax, which he… Continue reading The post Windfall Profits Tax on Ohio Oil & Gas Discussed by Economists first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall Trial

We finally have some good news to share with respect to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s foolish plan to force PA’s… Continue reading The post PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall Trial first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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PA IFO Predicts 2022 Impact Tax Will be Highest on Record – $258M

Just yesterday MDN told you about this year’s distribution of last year’s (2021) impact fee revenue to local municipalities and… Continue reading The post PA IFO Predicts 2022 Impact Tax Will be Highest on Record – $258M first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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PA Pays Out $234M in Impact Tax for 2021 – 2nd Highest Ever

Last Friday the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) posted detailed information about this year’s distribution of last year’s impact fees… Continue reading The post PA Pays Out $234M in Impact Tax for 2021 – 2nd Highest Ever first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.

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Why PA Gov. Wolf’s RGGI Carbon Tax Needs Legislative Approval

Whether or not you agree with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s idiotic plan to join something called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax that will force PA residents to pay $2.36 billion in higher electric costs over a 10-year period (and shut down coal and gas-fired power plants), there is one thing we

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API Getting Ready to Sell Out & Endorse Gas-Killing Carbon Tax

We’re done with the American Petroleum Institute (API) if they actually do what the Wall Street Journal says they’re about to do: Endorse and support a tax on carbon dioxide–the stuff you breathe out with every breath you take. Of course, API is largely controlled by huge multi-national corporations that don’t give a #[email protected]! about

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Is Scheme to “Certify” NatGas Emissions a Carbon Tax Trojan Horse?

On Friday MDN told you that EQT has partnered with a company called Project Canary (used to be Independent Energy Standards Corporation) to use the TrustWell™ Responsible Gas Program to monitor two EQT gas wells to prove to the world (in particular the global warming lunatics) that EQT’s gas is good and green (see EQT

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PA Gov. Wolf Floats Budget with Severance Tax for 7th Year in Row

Invoking the words “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” like a magical talisman, Pennsylvania’s far-left, bumbling governor, Tom Wolf, has for the seventh year in a row issued a budget proposal that won’t pass because it includes a Marcellus-killing severance tax on top of the existing severance tax (called an impact “fee”). Every year the urgent/critical reason changes

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Anti-Fossil Fuelers Pack Virtual Hearings to Support PA Carbon Tax

Big Green groups conducted a highly coordinated effort to pack Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) virtual hearings on Gov. Tom Wolf’s $2.36 billion carbon tax scheme. Big Green claims 95% of those blabbering on during the hearings supported the tax, which would kill the gas-fired power generation industry in the state. There’s still time for

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“Green LNG” – The Latest Carbon Tax Scam

There is another new scam being perpetrated on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector. It’s called “green LNG.” Supposedly pimple-faced millennial investors are demanding the companies they invest in (with some $110 trillion worth of money) clean up their carbon dioxide emissions or the spoiled kids will refuse to invest. Some LNG companies are going

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