Pennsylvania is the nation's second-largest natural gas producer, yet the Commonwealth does not provide sufficient resources ...

Spreading wastewater from conventional oil and gas drilling on dirt and gravel roads to keep dust down is a longtime practice in Pennsylvania ... Secretary of the Department of Environmental ...

And the industry is disputing the report, saying the DEP is distorting data. Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association President Dan Weaver did not offer an example or evidence to support that.

or DEP. In total, they reported spraying nearly 2.4 million gallons of wastewater on Pennsylvania roads. This number is likely a vast undercount: About 86% of Pennsylvania’s smaller oil and gas ...

THE OLD GAS WELL IN HER FRONT YARD IS ONE OF MORE THAN 200,000 ABANDONED AND GAS OR OIL WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA ... S LIST OF WELLS TO BE PLUGGED. DEP IS PLANNING TO SPEND $400 MILLION DOLLARS ...

Spotlight PA is an independent ... companies must cap oil and gas wells drilled after 1984 when they become inactive. DEP is charged with enforcing that requirement, but it has struggled to ...

Siri Lawson and her husband live on a stamp of wooded, hilly land in Warren County, Pennsylvania ... oil and gas producers submitted more than 3,000 reports of wastewater dumping to the state ...

The DEP’s Oil and Gas Program has oversight over the almost 80,000 Pennsylvania oil and gas wells now in production. In 2015, the DEP had 226 filled positions in its oil and gas program.

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC ... for the uncontrolled release of natural gas at Rager Mountain. DEP responded immediately to this incident, from oil and gas staff and emergency responders to ...

INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY FOUND PROPANE TANKS AND AN ACTIVE PRIVATE GAS WELL ON THE SITE. BUT A DEP MAP SHOWS NO SIGN OF ... SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental ...

The Pennsylvania Department ... identifying the cause,” said DEP Secretary Rich Negrin. “Our emergency response team, geologists, and members of the Oil and Gas District Operations will ...

The oil and gas producer Diversified had yet to secure ... Nonetheless, it ran for several weeks, one resident estimated. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) later ...