Pennsylvania Gas Driller: Our Operations Pose No Health Risk. You Can’t Be Serious, Activists Say.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, center, looks on as CNX President and CEO Nick Deiuliis speaks at a media event announcing an environmental monitoring collaboration between the natural gas company and Pennsylvania on Nov. 2 in in Claysville, PA. Photo: Commonwealth Media Services.

CNX Resources Corporation, a major Pennsylvania natural gas producer, has racked up air quality violations by the hundreds and three years ago pleaded no contest to criminal charges of skirting state pollution laws for years by misreporting air emissions at one of its facilities. 

The case against CNX was brought by Josh Shapiro, then the state’s attorney general and now its governor. At the time, Shapiro’s office called CNX’s behavior “fraudulent.”