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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bishops, nuns and rabbis are joining the environmental and social debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region, and many are seeking a balance that reflects their congregations. "We have people's lives who are...

Worrywarts are going overboard when they question the tributes afforded to a couple of Pennsylvania's esteemed leaders and their wives. You say Gov. Tom Corbett and his wife accepted a little over $11,000 in goodies from business big shots and...

Somebody is not telling the truth. At issue is whether deliberate actions by state officials are letting Texas gas industry robber barons do more damage to the environment than was done by coal industry robber barons in the last century, and are...

WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) — When a man in a Fort Worth suburb reported his family's drinking water had begun "bubbling" like champagne, the federal government sounded an alarm: An oil company may have tainted their wells while drilling for natural...

Ron Bukowski and Gary Miller stand on opposite shores in this summer’s debate over Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law. As he strolled through the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley in Lehigh County on a blindingly sunny afternoon last...

Opportunities to bash state legislators are all too few, so it was delightful to see the story about an apparent "gotcha" moment concerning one from western Pennsylvania. An Associated Press story, published by The Morning Call on Thursday, said state...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough oil and gas producers. But an...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Back in the early 1990s, when grunge ruled the Earth and everyone, by law, was required to wear flannel, look moody and drink truly psychotic amounts of coffee while listening to the first Pearl Jam......

Five of Pennsylvania’s largest natural gas drilling interests spent a staggering $1.3 million to lobby state government from January through March as legislators and the Corbett administration worked to approve a new impact fee on the industry. That...

A relatively new industry that has an impact on the environment will probably have a new government fee.  Pennsylvania, the only major gas-producing state that does not tax the taking of natural gas from its soil, moved closer Tuesday to imposing a fee...

A California lawmaker working to pass the Golden State's first hydraulic fracturing rules has watered down his landmark legislation, hoping to overcome industry opposition to a measure that would force energy companies to disclose the mysterious mix of...

Good Friday Morning Seekers. The Corbett administration's Marcellus Shale Commission (brought to you by Range Resources) holds its final meeting this morning, where it's scheduled to spend some six hours plowing through the hundreds of recommendations...