EQT’s Toby Rice Personally Invests in Sewage Sludge Disposal Vendor
EQT CEO Toby Rice has personally led a strategic investment round in Pittsburgh-based Orbital Biocarbon, an infrastructure company focused on sewage-sludge disposal for wastewater utilities. While no details were shared on how much he invested, this funding aims to accelerate the deployment of Orbital’s cleaner, cost-effective disposal services to address the industry’s challenges of tightening regulations and shrinking capacity. Read More “EQT’s Toby Rice Personally Invests in Sewage Sludge Disposal Vendor”
Sometimes politics is a game of “chicken” whereby you must keep fighting and wait out the other side when you *know* you are in the right. Such was the case with Pennsylvania Democrats’ insistence that the state join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax scheme. RGGI aims to force coal- and gas-fired power plants to shut down by making them super expensive to operate. Tax them out of existence on the theory that unreliable renewables like wind and solar would replace them. But Republicans in the PA Senate kept fighting—for seven long years—and finally won (see 
When the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) was placed into service in 1950, it was hailed as the longest pipeline in the world and the largest single-project construction venture ever attempted. Today, Transco, now owned by Williams, transports about 16% of the natural gas consumed in the United States. More than a single pipeline, Transco is a network stretching nearly 10,000 miles, connecting South Texas to New York. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this pipeline system to the country and to the Marcellus/Utica region. It carries an estimated 4.0 to 4.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of M-U molecules every day. We have written over 1,100 posts on MDN, either focusing on or prominently mentioning Transco (
It’s always one step forward and two steps back here in the “Empire” State of New York. Recent actions by New York Governor Kathy Hochul regarding the energy sector have been encouraging. She horse-traded with President Trump to allow two natural gas pipelines to get built in the state (see 
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