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As part of our State of the County Economy Series, the Shale Gas Knowledge Hub will feature data and information from the counties of southwest Pennsylvania ...

A Pennsylvania’s regulatory agency took the unusual step of revoking a permit it had issued for an injection well to dispose of fracking wastewater in Indian...

The population of Greene County followed the trend set by most counties in western Pennsylvania, having decreased between 2010 and 2018. Data from the US Cen...

Shell officials said the company will temporarily suspend construction of its ethane cracker plant in Beaver County after pressure from workers and county of...

As part of our State of the County Economy Series, the Shale Gas Knowledge Hub will feature data and information from the counties of southwest Pennsylvania ...

Washington County continued to benefit from the gas industry in 2019, leaders recently told an audience of business and industry representatives during the a...

Energy Transfer Partners will pay a $30.6 million civil penalty imposed by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in connection with the 201...

It was a difficult year for the natural gas industry in 2019. Warmer than usual temperatures in the winter months of 2019 decreased the need for gas used for...

The amount of “produced” wastewater from Marcellus Shale wells being drilled in Pennsylvania has risen dramatically since the development of unconventional d...

Royalties from gas well leases are a source of income for many landowners in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but determining just how much companies are paying ea...

A 2018 article published in Resource and Energy Economics investigating the effects of the oil and gas boom on schooling decisions in the US revealed a negat...

Accidents happen. However, there are some accidents that can reap much more havoc than others. This is especially true in the natural gas industry. The Penns...

Oil and gas drilling has been occurring in Pennsylvania since 1859, when the first commercial oil well was drilled. A major problem exists with so-called aba...

Many of the speakers at the Shale Insight conference, an annual gathering of natural gas industry representatives held recently in Pittsburgh, referenced the...

Buildings worldwide are increasingly in need of renovations in order to decrease energy use. Even when buildings are retrofitted, often times they are not do...

Staff of the Shale Gas Knowledge Hub traveled to Waynesburg University in Greene County, Pa., to attend the launch event for the county’s new marketing and b...

Franklin & Marshall College’s Center for Opinion Research has released the results for their August 2019 poll. The poll grades citizens of Pennsylvania’s att...

For the third consecutive year, Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) hosted a group of German students participating in a language and cultural exchange prog...

EQT has agreed to pay $53.5 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit with West Virginia residents who claimed the company was shortchanging them on g...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), natural gas extraction takes place on approximately 700,000 acres of s...