PUC Shields Colluding PA Groups’ Internal Communications from PGW
When referring to Big Green groups in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, we often label the groups as “colluding,” meaning they coordinate their legal and public relations attacks against fossil fuel companies. It is something we have long suspected but (unfortunately) can’t prove definitively. We had hoped Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) was about to prove it (see Colluding PA Anti Groups Fear Internal Communications Made Public). Several groups, including POWER Interfaith, Sierra Club, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania, Clean Air Council, Vote Solar, PennEnvironment, and the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group, attacked a recent proposal by PGW to raise rates. PGW asked the Public Utility Commission (PUC) to order the groups to provide internal communications that would prove they have been colluding together. Alas, the PUC turned down the request, preserving the secrecy of the colluders. Read More “PUC Shields Colluding PA Groups’ Internal Communications from PGW”
The special court established in Pennsylvania to hear appeals of Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) decisions, known as the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB), didn’t please anyone with a decision it rendered several weeks ago. We previously reported that the EHB had ruled in favor of CNX Resources to allow two previously permitted wells to move forward with construction (see 
We’re trying not to snicker and laugh out loud, but it’s hard. In May of last year, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a Big Green group dedicated to eliminating the use of fossil fuels, launched a methane-sniffing satellite called MethaneSAT (see 
We’ve chronicled some of the antics and borderline violent behavior of the environmental left. We’ve also told you how some on the left seek to ban free speech and put you in jail if you support fossil fuels. The United Nations, in a new report, calls for criminalizing “fossil fuel disinformation” (i.e., expressing support for fossil fuels). It calls for prohibiting fossil fuel companies from lobbying or advertising (no free speech for them). It goes on to call for making the spread of “climate disinformation” a crime. That would mean locking up MDN’s Jim Willis. The report even calls for countries to force-brainwash citizens against fossil fuels—just call it what it really is, reeducation camps. Can anyone tell us why we should remain in the UN? We can’t think of a single good reason. 
The climate change hoaxers of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), along with other Big Green groups, are attempting another headfake of oil and gas companies and the financial institutions that help fund them. The Methane Finance Working Group, an initiative launched at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit in 2023, released guidance to “deliver and deploy market-tested finance mechanisms that facilitate decarbonization across the oil and gas sector, while expanding the opportunities to achieve measurable methane emission reductions,” according to EDF. What the heck does that even mean? 
One day before Constellation Energy’s Eddystone Generating Station in Delaware County, PA, was due to close its remaining two units, the Trump Department of Energy (DOE) stepped in and ordered the plants to remain active based on Trump’s declaration of an energy emergency across the country (see 
Did you know that artificial intelligence (AI) services like ChatGPT “isn’t great for the planet”? That you should be using AI responsibly. And that you can choose an AI model that “harms the planet less.” This is the lunacy now coming from the left. Last week, on the same day, both the New York Times and the Washington Post (the epitome of leftist groupthink) published stories warning readers that using AI is killing the planet. Here we go again. Yeah, you should just remain dumb and give up your use of AI. That’s the solution! 
A leftist anti-fossil group calling itself Protect PT (Penn-Trafford), located in Westmoreland County, PA, backed with big money from Big Green groups, has for years challenged Penn Township ordinances that allow Apex Energy (now CNX Resources) to drill and operate shale wells. Protect PT finally struck out (legally) at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in May 2020 (see 
It’s not a good look for New York State that not long after Governor Kathy Hochul made a deal with President Trump to allow two natural gas pipelines to get built in return for allowing an offshore wind farm, the state legislature passed a bill that essentially spits in the face of the natural gas industry in the state. The Assembly passed A8888, already approved by the Senate as S8417, which forces new homes and businesses that want to connect to the natural gas line that runs down their street to pay the full cost of connecting—$10,000 or more. Meaning if Gov. Hochul signs it, no new natural gas customers will be added anywhere in the state. It is a de facto ban on connecting new customers to use natural gas in the so-called Empire State. 
Sometimes, some of the best news can be learned from your political enemies. The wackadoodle environmental left worldwide has, for years, tried to pressure Big Banks into defunding (refusing to loan to) fossil energy companies. While there are other sources of funding available, getting Big Banks to refuse loans has hurt the oil and gas industry. And for a while, it seemed like the left was winning, pressuring banks to pull back. Not anymore. An arrogant coalition of eight green groups, coordinated by the Rainforest Action Network, recently published a report showing that the world’s largest banks boosted the amount of financing given to fossil fuel companies last year (2024), committing $869 billion to those involved in coal, oil, and gas. That’s up significantly, from $162 billion spent the year before (2023). 
Olympus Energy wants to drill six wells on a single pad in rural Elizabeth Township, a borough in Allegheny County, on the east bank of the Monongahela River. The pad would sit about 2,400 feet (nearly half a mile) away from Elizabeth Forward High School. Some parents of students and members of the administration pushed back against Olympus’ drilling plan, using the children as an excuse (see 
This is funny, and sad. Yesterday, we brought you the news that Amazon has pledged to spend at least $20 billion to build multiple data centers in Pennsylvania (see 
The propagandists at the partisan Inside Climate News are doing their best to plant the false notion that drill cuttings and frack wastewater coming from shale wells are “radioactive.” Their latest effort in this regard is to defeat the reopening of a landfill in Mercer County, PA. The Grove City landfill would accept drill cuttings (among other landfillable waste). The antis, who oppose all fossil energy based on mythical global warming concerns, label drill cuttings as “radioactive waste.” It’s nonsense. Drill cuttings are leftover rock and dirt from the ground.