Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Gov. Tom Wolf is urging leaders of the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives to speed a vote on legislation to tax Marcellus Shale natural gas production in the nation’s No. 2 gas state. The Democrat gave his backing to a bill that emerged Wednesday from the…
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer was in town Thursday to give a presentation at the Shale Insight Conference. It’s called Shale Insight 2017 – a conference in Pittsburgh with natural gas Shale leaders from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. “It gives us an opportunity to…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania business groups are warning a state Senate-passed proposal to increase energy taxes will hurt the industry’s competitive standing, cause higher bills for consumers and scare off investment. The groups said Tuesday the proposal will hit some large industrial users very hard. The bill would bring in about $100 million annually…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Consumers’ utility bills would go up, Marcellus Shale drillers would pay a tax they’ve long resisted and Pennsylvania would make a new effort to capture tax revenue from internet sales under legislation poised for a vote in the state Senate. Republicans who control the chamber unveiled their plan to close a…