6/18/2012: Tax credit for Shell largest PA incentive; Greene Co. man gets probation for dumping waste

- How does the ethane tax credit proposal for Shell stack up in size against past economic incentives here and elsewhere? The P-G took a look in Sunday's edition, and found it looms large over the most high-dollar deals. 

- Measuring that tax credit against what it is claimed to produce -- thousands upon thousands of jobs -- may be even tricker, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, which questioned the job figures being used by the Corbett administration.

- Pittsburgh-based law firm Babst Calland announced Friday that it is opening an office in Akron, Ohio, positioning the new office to capture legal work stemming from development in both the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. (Post-Gazette)

- A Greene County man convicted of illegally dumping Marcellus Shale drilling waste and other wastewater was sentenced to seven years of probation. (The Herald-Standard)

- And in Ohio, state officials have spent the past three months combing through property records in an effort to open up Ohio’s forests and parks to shale drilling. (Columbus Dispatch)