The Pennsylvania House recently advanced legislation that seeks to ensure responsible oversight of the conventional oil and gas industry, aiming to protect the environment and safeguard industry stability within the Commonwealth, according to the Pennsylvania Business Report.
Senate Bill 790, sponsored by state Sen. Joseph B. Scarnati (R-25), would enact the Conventional Oil and Gas Wells Act to oversee the conventional, shallow-well oil and gas industry. It does not seek to protect unconventional, deep-well drilling in the Marcellus shale.
The legislation is the latest step in a long battle to stop the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from applying regulations, intended to address the more impactful unconventional industry, to smaller, conventional operations.
Learn more: Pennsylvania Business Report > House advances legislation ensuring oversight of conventional gas, oil industry
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