Drilling Payments Cause a Dispute in Pennsylvania

New York Times: Four Pennsylvania townships are challenging a state regulator's decision to withhold their share of proceeds from a statewide levy on drilling by the booming natural gas industry there. The townships, in a heavily drilled area of southwestern Pennsylvania, were excluded from a list of 35 counties and 1,485 municipalities that will receive a total of $108.7 million from a new "impact fee" charged to energy companies to help compensate for the effects of gas drilling on local communities. The payout,...

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