Democrats Flip PA Senate – Storm Clouds Gather Over the Marcellus

It happened, or very nearly so. For the first time in more than three decades, Democrats have claimed control of the Pennsylvania state Senate, with one race left for the Associated Press to make it official. Add a bigger Democratic majority in the state House, and Gov. Josh Shapiro's landslide reelection, and Democrats now hold a "trifecta" in Harrisburg: all three levers of state government. Since Democrats took the House in 2022, the GOP-controlled Senate has been the Marcellus industry's firewall against bad energy policy. On Jan. 5, 2027, that firewall goes away. Here's what we know so far, and what we think it means for drillers, landowners, pipeliners, and everyone else who profits from PA shale.

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