Corbett Administration Will "Likely Appeal" Act 13 Ruling

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

July 27, 2012 | 1:43 PM

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Governor Corbett tours Pittsburgh's Carpenters Training Center

Update: the Corbett Administration filed an appeal Friday afternoon.
The Post-Gazette has rounded up reaction to yesterday’s Commonwealth Court ruling striking down part of Pennsylvania’s new Marcellus Shale law, Act 13.
Governor Corbett told the paper, via statement, that his administration will likely appeal the decision in the State Supreme Court:

“We are disappointed in today’s ruling and will likely appeal. Act 13 is clearly constitutional and received significant input and ultimate support from Pennsylvania’s local government associations and their legal counsel. We will vigorously defend this law, which better protects the environment, provides revenue to local communities and regulatory certainty to both landowners and job creators.”

There’s a thirty-day window for appeals to be filed, but no firm timetable for when the Supreme Court would accept the case or issue a ruling.