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- Title
Conventional Politics for Unconventional Drilling? Lessons from Pennsylvania's Early Move into Fracking Policy Development.
- Authors
Rabe, Barry G.; Borick, Christopher
- Abstract
The emergence of hydraulic fracturing techniques is generating a dramatic expansion of the development of domestic natural gas resources in the United States and abroad. Fracking also poses a series of environmental protection challenges that cut across traditional medium and program boundaries. Formal constraints on federal government engagement thus far devolve considerable latitude to individual states for policy development. This provides an important test of whether recent scholarly emphasis on highly innovative state environmental and energy policies can be extended to this burgeoning area. Pennsylvania has moved to the epicenter of the fracking revolution, reflecting its vast Marcellus Shale resource and far-reaching 2012 legislation. This article examines the Pennsylvania case and notes that the state's emerging policy appears designed to maximize resource extraction while downplaying environmental considerations. The case analysis generates questions as to whether this experience constitutes an influential state early mover that is likely to diffuse widely or is instead an aberration in a rapidly diversifying state policy development process.
- Subjects
MARCELLUS Shale; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; ENERGY policy; SHALE gas; PENNSYLVANIA state politics &; government; NATURAL gas reserves; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; LOCAL government; HYDRAULIC fracturing laws; FEDERAL government of the United States; TWENTY-first century; GOVERNMENT policy; ECOLOGY
- Publication
Review of Policy Research, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
1541-132X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ropr.12018