Challenges to amendments to Pennsylvania’s Oil and Gas Act, prohibiting local municipalities from passing zoning ordinances aimed at banning natural gas drilling, went before the Commonwealth Court on Wednesday in Harrisburg, marking the first time attorneys argued the constitutionality of the closely watched Act 13.

One attorney representing the oil and gas industry told the seven-judge panel that the petitioners had about as much standing to challenge the law’s provisions as his children did to object to their allotted television time.

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