Court Rules Part of Act 13 Fracking Law Unconstitutional

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Court Rules Part of Act 13 Fracking Law Unconstitutional

Shared by The Investigative Newswire on July 28, 2012 · comment

David Headley, a Split Estate landowner, has been adversely affected by natural gas development since drilling beganon his property in 2006. © J.B.Pribanic

Parts of Pa. law favored by frackers overturned by Alice Su Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court overturned parts of the state’s controversial Act 13 on Thursday, returning zoning authority over natural gas drilling to the municipalities and townships that had contested the [...]

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