As the northern hemisphere heads into the winter heating months – as well as a holiday season with a pent-up demand for travel – families and businesses are experiencing an uptick in prices for oil, gasoline and natural gas.

The recently released proposal expands existing and creates new regulations related to greenhouse gas and volatile organic compound emissions from the oil and gas sector.

The billions in private capital being deployed to reduce emissions by business and industry is paying dividends. Yet environmental activists are not celebrating this success – instead, they are misleading the public.

Energy users in Pennsylvania and much of the U.S. have benefited greatly in recent years from the emergence of huge supplies of affordable domestic natural gas from shale formations, including the Marcellus and Utica shales.

The switch follows an August 30 order from a U.S. District Court, which remanded and vacated the definition of WOTUS promulgated by the Trump administration in 2020.

Although the legislature will attempt to block implementation via a concurrent resolution disapproving the rulemaking, it’s more likely that the courts will ultimately decide the fate of the Governor Wolf's unilateral effort to impose a tax on CO2 emissions.

Study shows that Pennsylvania Oil and Natural Gas Industry Generated 9.7 Percent of State’s GDP & 6.1 of Total Employment

The constitutionality of using Oil and Gas Lease Fund money for at least some operating expenses of environmental agencies must still be resolved.