Turning chicken waste into energy is not easy. And it probably won’t pay for itself, at least not in the near future. Patrick Thompson is doing it anyway.
MORE »The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is providing more opportunity for the public to comment on revisions to the Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites (Chapter 78 and 78a). DEP is extending the current public comment period by an additional 15 days, to 45 days, and adding three public hearings.
MORE »The House and Senate completed their budget hearings with the Wolf Administration agency heads last week, and appear ready to get serious about looking at the budget itself. But even before the first formal meetings among the House and Senate Leadership and the Governor, it appears all parties expect a contentious couple of months before the June 30 deadlines for a balanced state budget.
MORE »The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the Supreme Court’s conservative justices cast doubt Wednesday on the Obama Administration’s regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
MORE »Maryland’s House of Delegates passed a bill that would put a three-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the state.
MORE »The House Appropriations Committee is finishing its budget hearings, and back in Harrisburg next week, while the Senate continues its annual agency examinations. The Wolf Administration, in interviews and throughout the hearings continued to insist that the proposed budget is a comprehensive plan that has to be evaluated as a whole, and not as individual pieces. Budget Secretary Randy Albright told the Senate that the problems and solutions are all interconnected, but that the targeting proposed by Governor Wolf will make the state more competitive.
MORE »Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works committee used a Wednesday hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) landmark climate rule to highlight the objections from states that oppose the rule.
MORE »Last month, Ohio Governor John Kasich proposed to add additional revenue from the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays of approximately $325 million in his budget. He proposed a variety of tax rates on oil and gas products from horizontal wells. The tax on oil would be 6.5% of the value of oil, and the tax on gas entering the distribution system without further processing would also be 6.5%. Similarly, condensate collected at a point other than the wellhead would be taxed at 6.5% of its value.
MORE »The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today announced the latest draft revisions of the Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites, continuing DEP’s record of modernizing and strengthening the environmental controls employed by this industry to assure the protection of public safety.
MORE »The budget’s $675 million in economic development-related borrowing is contingent on the Governor getting passage of his severance tax proposal. Some $55 million of that tax revenue would be used annually to pay the borrowing costs.
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