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SCRANTON, Pa. — Sen. Bob Casey says Pennsylvania’s emerging natural gas industry has the potential to create jobs and wealth, but also carries environmental risks that must be addressed. The Pennsylvania Democrat said Thursday at a forum in Scranton that ...

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New York State Energy Research and Development Authority officials on Thursday announced an award of more than $300,000 to Rochester General Hospital to fund a lighting retrofit project.

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ALBANY — Concerns about crowds and security have forced the Environmental Protection Agency to postpone a public hearing on natural gas drilling two days before the event.

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BOISE — A New Orleans federal judge will manage the 300 lawsuits filed in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judicial panel has ordered. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which met in Boise ...

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ALBANY — In anticipation of as many as 8,000 people at a public hearing on natural gas drilling, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it was moving it from Binghamton University to a Syracuse convention center 65 miles north.

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SCRANTON, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top-ranking environmental official suggests New York could stop buying natural gas produced in the Keystone State if its legislators are so concerned about the environmental consequences.

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ALBANY — While environmental groups celebrated passage of a gas-drilling moratorium in the state Senate, an industry group said it needlessly delays work already held up for two years during an environmental review.

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ALBANY — A candidate for attorney general said Monday the office has the power to investigate and reform how wholesale electricity rates are set in New York, a process that he said now costs consumers $2.2 billion a year too much.

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Construction is expected to start next month on what is being billed as the largest private wind project of any manufacturing company in the United States. On Tuesday, Zotos International Inc. won final approval ...

The New York State Public Service Commission will gather public comment on a joint proposal to set electric and natural gas delivery rates for New York State Electric & Gas Corp. and Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. from Sept. 26 through Dec. 31.

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Legislation that would put a moratorium on a controversial means of drilling for natural gas in New York has stalled, an inertia environmentalists say may be the result of millions in lobbying.

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SYRACUSE — State auditors want an investigation into whether upstate New York customers of National Grid are paying an unfair share of the British utility’s corporate costs in the Northeast region.

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