Pennsylvania Commits to Unprecedented Environmental Monitoring Partnership with Major Gas Producer CNX

CNX Resources and Pennsylvania officials agree to collaborative data collection on air emissions and water quality from well sites, advancing transparency with real-time data and setting a new precedent in gas industry regulation.

Pennsylvania has partnered with CNX Resources for a first-of-its-kind collaboration, aiming to collect data on air emissions and water quality at well sites. This will result in the transparent disclosure of drilling chemicals, and the expansion of buffer zones.
The initiative follows an agreement with CNX CEO Nick Deluliis and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, involving the Boilermakers local union, and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, marking a unique alignment of typically opposing groups.
The program will monitor environmental impacts throughout all stages of the drilling and fracking process. This data could potentially inform future policy and regulatory changes.
Deluliis expressed the company's commitment to ‘radical transparency’ to improve public trust. The goal is to create stringent standards akin to those for the company's financial reporting, applying the same diligence to regulatory reporting.
The collaboration addresses past concerns regarding state regulation shortcomings. A 2020 grand jury found that state regulators had failed in preventing the gas drilling industry from causing negative health effects and environmental issues.