PA High Court Rejects State Gas Law

摘要

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has overturned a state law restricting local governments from setting their own, separate regulations on natural gas activities, backing a decision handed down by a lower court last year. At issue is Act 13, which included a measure requiring local counties and townships in Pennsylvania to submit to uniform state rules governing many aspects of natural gas development. A lower court struck down that measure last year, ruling in favor of seven municipalities who had argued that the rule undermines local control.