Pennsylvania Trial Court Upholds Dismissal Of Borough's Challenge to Gas Drilling Permit

摘要

A Pennsylvania trial court affirmed a decision Jan. 6 by the state's environmental board to dismiss a municipal authority's challenge to a gas drilling permit (Brockway Borough Mun. Auth. v Dep't of Envtl. Prot., 2016 BL 1808, Pa. Commw. Ct., No. 789-CD-2015, 1/6/16). In an opinion filed Jan. 6 in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt upheld a decision by Pennsylvania's Environmental Hearing Board to dismiss a challenge brought by the Brockway Borough Municipal Authority against the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which issued the permit.