Corbett administration won’t ‘rule out’ gas tax this year
With mounting pressure to find new revenue in the face of an estimated $1.4 billion budget gap this year, the Corbett administration is signaling it may be open to levying a new extraction tax on...
View ArticleGovernor’s office denies involvement with health department drilling policies
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Governor Tom Corbett refused to answer questions about allegations state health department employees were silenced on the issue of natural gas development. A...
View ArticleCorbett says public misunderstands impacts of gas tax
Republican Governor Tom Corbett said at a news conference Tuesday that the public may be misinformed about the consequences a severance tax could have on the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. A new...
View ArticleCorbett says he hasn’t seen any ‘intentional violations’ by gas industry
Speaking Thursday at a gas industry trade group conference in Pittsburgh, Governor Corbett said he has yet to see any “intentional violations” by drillers. “Have there been violations? Yeah. And that’s...
View ArticleElection 2014: Corbett and Wolf differ on approach to Obama’s carbon rules
Election day is just a week away. And whoever ends up winning the race for Pennsylvania’s governor will have climate change on their agenda. That’s because states now have to implement new EPA rules...
View ArticleWhat Wolf’s win means for energy and the environment
Now we know. Democrat Tom Wolf will indeed be taking the reins from Gov. Corbett in just over two months. For the first time since 1954, an incumbent Pennsylvania governor did not either win...
View ArticleShell buys more land at possible cracker site but still hasn’t decided...
Shell Chemical on Wednesday confirmed its purchase of the site of a former zinc smelter in Beaver County but said it still hasn’t decided whether to go ahead with construction of a major petrochemical...
View ArticleEnvironmental group accuses AG’s office of inaction in Health Department probe
An environmental advocacy group is accusing the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office of failing to conduct a promised investigation into allegations that the state’s Department of Health neglected...
View ArticleWhere are they now? Track top state officials with Pennsylvania’s Blurred Lines
StateImpact Pennsylvania’s new interactive multimedia page tracks state officials moving between the public and private sectors over the past decade. We’ve included nearly 40 high-level people from the...
View ArticleEPA bans disposal of fracking waste water at public treatment plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has banned the disposal of hydraulic fracturing waste water at public sewage plants, formalizing a voluntary practice that removed most fracking waste from...
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