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Fracking

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Why Tom Corbett and Mike Nutter Held Hands Yesterday

Click on this State Impact story and you’ll see a photo of Michael Nutter and Tom Corbett, awkwardly trying to cut a ribbon with the […]

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Tom Corbett Apparently Running for Governor of the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r5MvXLyXmE Tom Corbett’s got a new ad out touting the job growth and cheap energy that has resulted from his pro-fracking policies. Using the image […]

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The Marcellus Shale Coalition Returns to Philly

Philadelphia, are you ready for some fracking? The Marcellus Shale Coalition is, and they’ll be having that discussion (for the third year in row) right […]

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Top Corbett Challenger Puts Cards on Table, Wants to Tax Fracking

Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz, frontrunner in the gubernatorial sweepstakes, is trying to make Pennsylvania more like…Texas!  She wants to tax natural gas production from the Marcellus […]

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Philly Profiting from Fracking…Sort Of

Philadelphia-area property owners don’t have the option of leasing land to gas companies to cash in on the state’s Marcellus Shale fracking boom. (Nor is […]

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The Consequences of PA’s Fracking Boom In One Statistic

The entire debate about the merits of Pennsylvania’s fracking boom rests on the tricky question of whether people’s air and water are being contaminated by […]

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Rendell Writes Pro-Fracking Op-Ed, Fails to Mention Enormous Conflict of Interests

Yesterday, Ed Rendell wrote a big pro-fracking op-ed for the new New York Daily News, in an attempt to sway on-the-fence-and-has-presidential-ambitions Andrew Cuomo to approve fracking […]

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Everybody in Harrisburg is Basically Shilling for the Gas Industry

NPR’s StateImpact flagged a report yesterday called “Fracking and the Revolving Door in Pennsylvania,” and it’s pretty breathtaking. To summarize: Many of the powerful former officials […]

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Yay Fracking? PA’s Air Quality Improved From 2008-2011

Tougher EPA regulations and lower emissions from natural gas fracking (compared to, say, coal mining) have contributed to cleaner air in the last three years, […]