In an important and wide-ranging ruling reviewing “special treatment” granted to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry by the General Assembly, the state Supreme Court has struck down several sections of Act 13, the state’s oil and gas law. It was the high court’s second swipe at the law passed in 2012 by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.
The provisions struck down by the court include those that allowed gas companies to employ eminent domain, exempted private water used by 3 million Pennsylvanians from notification after a spill, and prevented doctors from disclosing information about their patients’ chemical exposures.
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