PA: The Great Energy Debate: Pa. Weighs its Carbon Future

U.S. News & World Report: What has made Pennsylvania $630 million richer?

That’s the revenue it has generated in the past three years through so-called “impact fees,” one-time charges on new unconventional oil and gas wells – the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling projects that have unleashed the U.S. energy boom of the past decade.

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