With a late-night vote on Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Senate passed the first comprehensive natural gas drilling bill since the explosion of Marcellus Shale drilling, but it did not come without a heated debate. The measure essentially takes away a municipality’s ability to limit drilling within its borders and creates a $50,000 fee for each well drilled in the state. That fee will decrease over time.
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