Drill Bits: Some Unfinished Impact Fee Business In The House

February 8, 2012 | 9:31 AM

By Scott Detrow

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More on yesterday’s Sen­ate impact fee vote.

Our look at the polit­i­cal pres­sure that led two Philadel­phia Democ­rats to sup­port the bill.

The House didn’t vote last night, but will likely approve the fee later today.

Some envi­ron­men­tal groups are back­ing the leg­is­la­tion, but oth­ers say it comes up short.

And let’s not for­get about the Utica Shale: drillers spent nearly $7 bil­lion buy­ing rights to the lesser-known geo­log­i­cal for­ma­tion in 2011.