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As we previously reported, West Virginia Senate Bill (SB) 188 is aimed at making WV more competitive with its neighbors--Pennsylvania and Ohio--with respect to siting more gas-fired power plants in the state. The only problem is that the coal industry isn't thrilled with some of the language in the bill (see WV Senate Bill to

Attorneys for both the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) and those representing gas-fired power plants were in PA Commonwealth Court on Wednesday. DEP's attorneys argued the court should toss a lawsuit brought by the power-generating industry against an obscene carbon tax called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) that DEP is trying to force

Last September, the New York Public Service Commission (PSC), which oversees and regulates public utilities, approved the takeover of the Fortistar gas-fired power plant in North Tonawanda, NY, a town close to Niagara Falls, by Canadian crypto mining company Digihost. In December, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) offered its blessing too. All of which

We spotted a fascinating story out of Los Angeles about the city's foolish and reckless action in abandoning its largest natural gas-fired power generation plant in favor of using hydrogen instead. Hydrogen is the Holy Grail for the left. At least, for some on the left. Many on the left (and, it seems, on the

Please don't tell us politicians like Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and U.S. Senator Elizbeth "Pocahontas" Warren give a fig about global warming and carbon emissions. Their actions, along with the actions of other Democrat politicians, have blocked new natural gas pipelines into New England that would supply low-emission fuel to generate electricity for the region.

The radicals of the odious Sierra Club and its sycophants at the Big Green-funded group Appalachian Voices are attempting to use scare tactics against the neighbors and landowners who live along the route of a 32-mile long, 30-inch wide natural gas pipeline that Kinder Morgan needs to build to feed a new gas-fired power plant

The supposedly non-partisan U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), which increasingly appears to be influenced (if not corrupted) by the Bidenistas, published a post yesterday on the agency's daily Today in Energy website with this headline: "Coal and natural gas plants will account for 98% of U.S. capacity retirements in 2023." The thrust of the article

The Pennsylvania House Republican Policy Committee held a hearing yesterday in Harrisburg on the increasing energy costs that affect large and small businesses as well as homeowners. Several energy advocates, including Marcellus Shale Coalition President Dave Callahan, shared their thoughts and insights. High on the list of issues creating higher energy prices in the Keystone

The bill was approved on a party-line vote.

What a difference 20 years can make. In 2001, natural gas was used to produce 2% of the electricity produced in Pennsylvania, and coal produced 57% of the state's electricity. Then the Marcellus Shale miracle happened--the first Marcellus well was drilled in PA in 2004. By 2021, 52% of PA's electricity was produced by natural