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Gas tax a Wolf in sheep's clothing

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Tom Wolf is under attack for keeping a controversial new severance tax on gas production despite plugging his new 2015-16 Budget hard this week that will see hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into developing the Marcellus shale and support coal and renewables industries.

Gas tax a Wolf in sheep's clothing

Pennsylvania is the only US state without a severance tax - a fact enjoyed by oilers and miners languishing in a depressed oil market. But not for much longer as the Democrat governor is pushing it to...

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