Houston-based GenOn Holdings, LLC announced last week it will close the Cheswick Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant in Allegheny County, by Sept 15. The move is part of a process to perma...
Read More
EQT Corp. recently announced that it has joined a project to improve the understanding of upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at natural gas production sites and further deploying advanced monitor...
Read More
PPG recently completed its purchase of all shares of Tikkurila, a more than 150-year-old Finnish producer and distributor of decorative paint and coatings. A total of 38.7 million shares were tende...
Read More
Wabtec Corp., a provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail industries, recently began operating at Neighborhood 91. Neighborhood 91...
Read More
The state Senate Finance Committee recently advanced legislation to provide employers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with critical assistance, Senate Bill 368 is part of the Prioritize Pennsylv...
Read More
United States Steel Corporation recently announced it is selling its Transtar business to a Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors (FTAI) affiliate for $640 million. “By selling Tra...
Read More
Pittsburgh-based Kraft Heinz Company announced Monday that it has sold its nuts business to Hormel Foods Corporation for $3.35 billion. Previously, the company said it would divest most of its pro...
Read More
Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Bradford/Lycoming/Sullivan/Union counties), members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and labor and economic leaders recently toured the $6 billion Shell petrochemical pla...
Read More
A concurrent resolution soon to be introduced in the state Senate would create a bicameral, 18-month commission focused on the state’s education system. The 2030 Commission on Education and Econo...
Read More
Pittsburgh-based Arconic Corporation announced it is continuing its path towards sustainability, as evidenced by its release of its 2020 Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance Report ...
Read More
AmerisourceBergen Corporation announced Tuesday that it had completed its acquisition of the majority of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s Alliance Healthcare businesses. AmerisourceBergen purchased th...
Read More
The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) recently approved two low-interest loans totaling $2.3 million. Through the Bucks County Economic Development Corp., Home Reserve was approv...
Read More
The Hershey Co. recently released its 2020 Sustainability Report, which reviews the company's holistic sustainability strategy and highlights progress on key environmental and social initiatives. "...
Read More
Westinghouse Electric Co. recently completed the purchase of Canada-based Laveer Engineering, a custom tooling and solutions provider. The purchase allows Westinghouse to expand its Canada Deuteri...
Read More
Dollar Mutual Bancorp recently completed its merger with Standard AVB Financial. "We are ecstatic to announce the completion of this merger and welcome Standard Bank into the Dollar family," Doll...
Read More
Adelphia Gateway, LLC announced Friday that it had received a Notice to Proceed with the second phase of the project from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The project will convert 50 mile...
Read More
Altoona-based Sheetz, a mid-Atlantic restaurant and convenience chain, announced Thursday that it will enable digital currency payments via Flexa, the pure-digital payments network, which will allow c...
Read More
Exton-based Allied Resources Group (ARG) announced Wednesday that it has acquired RTR Energy Solutions (RTR), a project management services provider to the power delivery systems industry. With of...
Read More
The Pennsylvania Senate recently advanced four bills addressing job regulations to boost the state’s employment rate while emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. Senate Bill 28 would require agenci...
Read More
The state Senate Finance Committee recently advanced two bills designed to help businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Both bills were written by state Sen. John Yudichak (I-Luzerne/Carbon)...
Read More