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.

The need for energy has never been higher in Pennsylvania, and there seems to be one culprit: data centers.

PJM is racing to craft new rules to meet surging data center demand through a fast-track process, one that could reshape the grid if federal regulators sign off.

In recent years, Pennsylvania regulators have tried to clamp down on roadway spreading of tens of millions of gallons of oil and gas “brines,” high-salt liquids that can be laced with toxic metals and radioactive material. The industry is pushing back.

The Department of Environmental Protection has named Seth Pelepko, a licensed Professional Geologist, as Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, according to LinkedIn. Pelepko succeeds Kurt Klapkowski who served in that position since February 2022.

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State environmental regulators say they intend to approve an air quality plan for a proposed natural gas-fired power plant near Homer City, despite concerns from an environmental group that the facility would become the largest air polluter in Pennsylvania.

As the number of data centers in Pennsylvania soars, it’s nuclear energy, more than any other source, that has dominated conversations about how to produce the electricity needed to cool the power-hungry computers essential to modern commerce.