Taxes & Economy

Demanding More Dollars From Drillers

  • Gordon Tomb
  • May 20, 2013

Pennsylvania’s new drilling impact fee has not deterred special interests from demanding more money from the state’s most prolific producers of new energy. Act 13 of 2012 imposed…

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Taxes & Economy

Frack Attacker Exposed

  • January 26, 2012

Prof. Robert Howarth is known for controversial, anti-fracking studies declaring natural gas as one of the worst environmental polluters. Yesterday, former PA Department of Environmental Protection secretary John…

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“Is Fracking Safe” from Stossel

  • Nathan Benefield
  • May 13, 2011

Here is the video of Matt Brouillette (alongside former Pennsylvania DEP Secretary John Hanger) on last night’s episode of Stossel. Watch the latest video at <a…

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Government Accountability

Exclusive Interview with Gov. Corbett, and Tonight on Stossel

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • May 12, 2011

Right now, I’m writing you from a train leaving New York City, because last night I interviewed with “The Stache,” John Stossel, about the natural gas boom in…

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Taxes & Economy

Hanger: Gas Fracking is Safe

  • February 11, 2011

John Hanger, who just departed with Gov. Ed Rendell as his Secretary of Environmental Protection, recently gave an exit interview to the anti-natural gas,…

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Taxes & Economy

Stop the Midnight Raid on PennVEST for a “Pipeline to Nowhere”

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • November 8, 2010

MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the General Assembly FROM:   Matthew J. Brouillette, President & CEO, Commonwealth Foundation DATE: November 8, 2010 RE: Stop Rendell/Hanger’s Midnight Raid on PennVEST…

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Taxes & Economy

Cabot Squares Off with DEP

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • October 4, 2010

The pressure is building in Dimock, Pennsylvania, where the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and drilling company Cabot Oil and Gas are squaring off over a proposal to…

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Taxes & Economy

Solar Claims Need Scrutiny

  • September 21, 2010

There’s nothing wrong with solar energy, but government officials (like Gov. Rendell and Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger) shouldn’t mislead the public to drum up support for taxpayer funding of…

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