The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation’s largest electric grid to take urgent steps to boost power supplies and keep electricity bills from rising even higher.

Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23), chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, has been re-elected to chair the Pennsylvania delegation of the tri-state Chesapeake Bay Commission (CBC).

PJM’s analysis paints a stark warning. By 2030, we could face massive supply deficits without immediate action. For the 2026-2027 delivery year, PJM envisions a razor-thin surplus of just 0.2 GW — barely meeting basic reliability requirements and in stark contrast with the 19.1 percent reserve margin it believes necessary to keep the lights on. 

Today, our state and nation stand at a critical crossroads – one that will determine whether the U.S. continues to lead the world in affordable, reliable energy or falls behind due to bureaucratic red tape and gridlock.

The first phase of work for a proposed data center complex was approved Wednesday night at a lengthy Greene County Planning Commission meeting that generated nearly an hour-and-a-half of public comment.

Pennsylvania’s environmental regulator will study a plan to sharply increase the distance between new natural gas drilling sites and homes, schools and hospitals.

Developers have bought the former Cheswick Generating Station site in Springdale to construct a massive data center. The borough's council still needs to vote on the project's conditional use permit on Dec. 16

After a delay of more than four months, Governor Josh Shapiro has signed Pennsylvania’s $50.09 billion state budget into law, officially concluding the long budget impasse. The main appropriations bill, Senate Bill 160, passed with broad bipartisan support — 40-9 in the Senate and 156-47 in the House — and does not rely on any new revenue sources or transfers from the state’s Rainy-Day Fund.

The chair of the state House Environmental Committee makes the case to keep RGGI on the books – and out of budget talks.

The Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association (PIOGA) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a resolution to become the sole, controlling member of the Pennsylvania Independent Petroleum Producers Association, Inc. PIPP, a move that strengthens the unified voice of Pennsylvania’s oil and natural gas industry.