Reid Frazier

Trump Administration Proposes Rollbacks For Two Obama-Era Coal Pollution Rules

By Reid Frazier | November 5, 2019

Rules on coal ash ponds, wastewater from coal-fired power plants are targeted

PA, CNX Reach $1.48M Settlement On Abandoned Wells

By Reid Frazier | October 14, 2019

Resolves 2018 order involving more than 1,000 wells.

In Scotland, This Town Evolved With Its Refinery And The Arrival Of Shale Gas

By Reid Frazier | September 25, 2019

“The benefit is there’s employment in the area. But the rest of the town’s neglected and I don’t feel our town of Grangemouth benefits as much as it should, with an oil refinery on our doorstep.”

In The UK, Fracking’s Not A Thing — So Shale Gas From PA Has Become Their Workaround

By Reid Frazier | September 18, 2019

For decades, the United Kingdom has relied on oil and gas from the North Sea. Those fields, first developed in the 1960s and 70s, are declining.

At Grangemouth Refinery In Scotland, A Plastics Evangelist Says PA’s Shale Gas Is Vital

By Reid Frazier | September 17, 2019

The massive refinery and petrochemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland, run by INEOS, was one of the first overseas plants to receive Pennsylvania ethane.

US Steel, Allegheny County Have A Draft Agreement On Pollution Violations

By Reid Frazier | July 1, 2019

HARRISBURG, PA (WITF) – The Allegheny County Health Department and U.S. Steel have a draft agreement to resolve multiple air pollution violations from the company’s Clairton Plant over the past two years. The agreement calls on the company to pay $2.7 million in fines and put in place a suite of pollution upgrades at the plant. The company said the price of those upgrades is $200 million. The agreement does not resolve legal issues between the county and the company over air pollution problems that resulted from a Dec. 24 fire.