Rep. Sandra Majors Summer 2010 Newsletter The Marcellus Shale region covers up to 60 percent of the Commonwealth and all of the 111th District, which is why this is such an important issue for the residents of my district. As this industry…

Bloomberg When Victoria Switzer awoke on a cold night in March, her dog was staring out the window at the flame roaring from a natural-gas-drilling rig 2,000 feet behind her house. She remembers trees silhouetted in a demonic dance as the plume…

House Finance Committee chairman David Levdansky (D-Allegheny) took his committee on the road this week, holding hearings on his gas severance tax bill, HB 2443. This bill would levy a 25 cents per cubic foot tax on natural gas extracted within the…