
Ten years after the first gas driller bored into the Marcellus Shale formation, the commonwealth remains the only major gas-producing state without a severance tax. Legislation to enact a severance tax has been introduced into the General Assembly every year since 2009. And every year, the General Assembly has failed to get a severance tax bill to the governor’s desk. The Republican budget for 2015-16 does not include a severance tax.