Main Areas of Work Advocacy & Outreach Transportation Law & Policy We work with communities Aims to encourage We participate in healthy active living and permitting, rulemaking, to amplify their voices to sustainable travel in and other public decision makers in order to order to reduce processes and litigate maintain and strengthen transportation sector when necessary to ensure pollution and gree. [...] (source - ) Dillon Rule • Local government only exercises (1) powers expressly granted by the state, (2) powers necessarily and fairly implied from the grant of power, and (3) powers crucial to the existence of local government. [...] In the court opinion, Justice Dillon emphasized that local governments are considered an extension of the state and power is distributed to those local governments according to the state constitution. [...] (source - ) Act 13 in Practice • Act 13 of 2012 was a comprehensive rewrite of the Oil and Gas Act intended to address the increase in natural gas operations as a result of findings in the Marcellus Shale in northern and western Pennsylvania. [...] • On the May 2021 ballot voters voted to limit the Governor’s powers • Republicans introduced legislation to appear on the 2023 ballot to: • limit the length of any executive order to 21 days • Allow the legislature to block any order with a simple majority vote • “The legislation would not only limit the governor's powers, however.
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