Laura Legere

Low-producing wells pump out just 6% of U.S. oil and gas each year but account for roughly half of the climate-warming methane that escapes from all of...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection last updated its environmental justice policy 18 years ago. Now, it is rewriting its guidelines...

Pennsylvania has a mid-June deadline to finalize the rule or face federal sanctions.

Pennsylvania environmental regulators are “re-evaluating” their overdue rule for cutting air pollution from oil and gas well sites even as...

The state Department of Environmental Protection’s first update to its environmental justice policy in nearly 20 years is drawing rebukes from industry...

Objections from legislators and advocates for the state’s conventional oil and gas industry caused the proposed rule to be split in two

The effective tax rate on Pennsylvania shale gas dropped to a record low 1.3% in 2021 and is projected to drop to 0.6% in 2022.

After U.S. Supreme Court limits scope of federal tools to cut power plant carbon emissions, state and local rules gain attention.

Gov. Wolf will allow the bill to become law without his signature as part of a budget deal.

“This is a more realistic approach and that’s, frankly, rare,” said Paul Jacob, CEO of Rye Development. “That’s going to get a lot of things built, not just our thing.”