5/7/2012: Saul Ewing in Pittsburgh; Lackawanna gets shale fee funds; new fed fracking rules

- Philadelphia-based Saul Ewing has opened an office in Pittsburgh, a market that has been sought out by out-of-town firms clamoring not just for Marcellus Shale work, but everything the shale play brings with it. (Legal Intelligencer)

- Marcellus shale gas wells in Pennsylvania generated about $3.5 billion in gross revenues for drillers in 2011, but experts say that much more money will be made by petrochemical companies that process the gas into other industrial and consumer compounds. (Associated Press)

- Good news for Lackawanna County -- they'll be getting a portion of the shale impact fee dollars after all. (Scranton Times-Tribune)

- The federal Department of Interior announced new rules for hydraulic fracking disclosure that should sound familiar to those following the state's drilling regulation debate. (Associated Press)

- But those new federal rules won't apply to the Allegheny National Forest, the federal government's biggest chunk of land in Pennsylvania. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)