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FILE - Work continues at a shale gas well drilling site in St. Mary's, Pa., March 12, 2020. Facing the need to win Pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris has sworn off any prior assertion that she opposed fracking. But that hasn't stopped Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump from wielding her now-abandoned position as to win over working-class voters in the key battleground state where the industry means jobs. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
August 5, 2024 | 9:52 AM

Harris once wanted to ban fracking. Trump wants voters in energy-rich Pennsylvania to remember

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks before President Joe Biden at the Finishing Trades Institute on March 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. A top Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Shapiro's proposed tax break to attract more people into Pennsylvania’s ranks of police officers, nurses and teachers.
September 29, 2023 | 3:39 PM

Pennsylvania governor noncommittal on greenhouse gas strategy as climate task force finishes work

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
The coal plant in Shamokin Dam, Pa., is a local landmark that delivered electricity to this region for more than six decades. It closed in 2014. Next to it, a brand new natural gas power plant is under construction. The Sunbury Pipeline will feed Marcellus Shale gas into that plant.
Updated: May 24, 2023 | 5:27 pm

Pennsylvania high court to consider plan to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
FILE PHOTO: Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
December 13, 2021 | 5:42 PM

Gov. Wolf’s carbon-pricing plan stalled by legal disagreement

The Wolf administration says the regulation to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative should be published now; the Republican-led legislature says it has ‘many months’ to review the rule.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press and Rachel McDevitt
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is a cap-and-trade program intended to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.
Updated: October 27, 2021 | 11:21 am

Shapiro says he’s not sold on RGGI, which Wolf has touted as ‘historic’ climate effort in Pa.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who is running to succeed fellow Democrat Tom Wolf as governor, says any climate action Pa. takes should ‘protect and create energy jobs.’

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, Pa., which was retired early in November 2019.
Updated: 2021-05-05 05:00:00

Wolf takes next step to start carbon emissions caps in 2022

If Wolf is successful, Pennsylvania would become the first major fossil fuel state to adopt a carbon pricing policy or join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
A natural gas drilling rig in Greene County, Pa. in 2016.
March 25, 2021 | 1:34 PM

Gas drilling firms defeat Pennsylvania’s anti-trust lawsuit

Pennsylvania’s highest court has delivered a victory for natural gas exploration firms, ruling that the state attorney general’s office doesn’t have authority under state law to sue them on anti-trust grounds over their mineral rights-leasing practices.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press