The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that the state has a “fundamental constitutional right” to provide a “clean and healthful” environment — upholding a landmark 2023 climate ruling that said residents were having their rights violated on account of the state not having a “stable climate system that sustains human lives and liberties.”

PIOGA’s year-end Reality Check takes a hard look at the emerging forces that make 2025 critical to the development of U.S. energy policy.

The Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) released its latest quarterly Natural Gas Production Report for July through September 2024. There were 63 new horizontal wells spud (drilled) in 3Q24, the same exact number as in 2Q24, but 3Q’s number was a decrease of 39 wells (-38%) compared to the third quarter of 2023.

Opinion Piece - Acting Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, Jessica Shirley. I’m proud to report that the Shapiro Administration is making real progress at improving our permitting processes. DEP, alongside the Governor’s Office of Transformation and Opportunity, is making enormous strides in reviewing more than 45,000 permits every single year, all while maintaining the levels of environmental and public health protection that Pennsylvanians expect and deserve.

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday signed an executive order creating the Pennsylvania Permit Fast Track Program - to streamline the permitting process for infrastructure projects statewide.

Constellation Energy has applied to reopen a nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna — not the one shut after a coolant failure in 1979, but its long-running neighbor, closed by Exelon Corp. in 2019, as cheaper natural gas made the aging uranium plant too expensive to run.

A plant converting methane from landfill emissions to renewable natural gas has opened in western Schuylkill County and will benefit both local utility customers and the environment, project leaders say.

Data centers' growing demand for electricity will require additional natural gas to support generation, necessitating a response from the North American midstream energy sector.

On a global scale, we are investing nearly $2 trillion annually to create an energy transition. In the last 10 years, solar and wind power use has reached unprecedented levels. However, this increase hasn’t led to a reduction in fossil fuel consumption. In fact, fossil fuel use has grown during this period.

PIOGA has been working hard on your behalf and has secured a valuable victory for producers on all Peoples systems. In a settlement with Peoples and the PUC we negotiated on your behalf for: 2 cent gathering rate reduction on conventional production ($0.26 to $0.24); Applying that reduced fee to the entirety of the Peoples distribution system; Peoples water vapor moisture curve will be applied systemwide, streamlining your operations cost to one standard; and Reserving PIOGA’s ability to intervene in future Peoples rate cases and challenging proposed tariffs in the future.