The court held that a decision finding an oil and gas lease to be abandoned pursuant to the equitable doctrine of abandonment was improper where the lease provided remedies for the allegedly wrongful conduct of the lessee.

The joint resolution, if enacted into law, would reinstate Obama administration rules regulating the methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industrial sector, including the production, processing, transmission and storage segments.

Senate Republicans have told Governor Tom Wolf they will block appointments to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission unless he ends his unilateral effort to join a multistate climate initiative to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Members and staff of PIOGA have spent the past six years fighting Gov. Tom Wolf and certain members of the state legislature in their desire to impose a severance tax on unconventional natural gas production in the Commonwealth.

Since the Marcellus Shale play started 10-plus years ago, we have been using the terms unconventional and conventional incorrectly. And “we” includes the state, the public, the press and much of our own industry.