The data center boom isn’t a hypothetical anymore. It’s showing up in the country’s domestic forecast. In its latest Short Term Energy Outlook, the Energy Information Administration links rising demand directly to large computing facilities and data center expansion, with natural gas remaining the single largest source of U.S. power generation, holding around 40 percent of the mix in 2026.

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With energy affordability and reliability dominating headlines, state lawmakers peppered Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Secretary Jessica Shirley about the administration’s strategy to speed the addition of new power sources to the electric grid.

The energy statistics in the United States have not changed: Pennsylvania remains the second-largest producer of natural gas in the country. If the Appalachia Basin region (Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia) was its own country, it would be the fourth largest producer in the world.

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.