The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) final rule repealing the 2009 endangerment finding.

Pennsylvania must act to require industries across the economy to cut — and pay for — climate-warming pollution they release, a group led by prominent state environmental attorneys said in a legal demand to state regulators on Thursday. The coalition wants to compel Pennsylvania’s environmental rule-makers to create a program that puts a price and shrinking cap on allowable greenhouse gas emissions that would apply to a broad swath of pollution sources, including power plants, coal mines, factories and transportation fuels.

Today, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro gave his annual budget address to a joint session of the General Assembly. As expected, the governor placed great emphasis on artificial intelligence and data center development, while also recognizing the continued affordability hardship that energy prices are placing on Pennsylvanians.

Devon Energy and Coterra Energy on Monday announced a $58 billion all-stock merger to become a large-cap producer with a top position in the Permian Basin as the shale sector consolidates to cut costs and boost scale.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that the Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) is restructuring, revising, or eliminating more than $83 billion in Green New Scam loans and conditional commitments from the Biden-era loan portfolio.

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.