Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Corporation announced last week that its Alumar smelter in Sao Luis, Brazil, has energized its first 20 smelting pots as part of the location’s restart of aluminum capacity. ...
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M&T Bank Corporation, a New York-based financial holding company, is seeking participants for its first Capital Region Multicultural Small Business Innovation Lab. The lab is a free program designe...
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Pennsylvania Sen. Ryan Aument's (R-36) tax reform bill advanced the Senate Finance Committee, his office announced Wednesday. Senate Bill 771 would reduce the Corporate Net Income (CNI) tax from i...
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Pennsylvania Rep. Jonathan Fritz (R-Susquehanna/Wayne) recently applauded the House vote in favor of his bills to boost energy production and decrease reliance on Russia for oil and gas. On Tuesda...
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A new report from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center has found that the affordable rental housing problem Pennsylvania faced prior to the pandemic is only worse now. The report looked at wh...
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U.S. Rep Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) voted this week to secure relief for restaurants and small businesses hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Scanlon said she supported the “Relief for Restaurant...
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Northumberland-based Encina announced Thursday it plans to invest $1.1 billion into a new manufacturing facility in Point Township. The new facility, to be called the Point Township Circular Manuf...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday that Northampton Community College would receive more than $50,000 to develop a Precision Machining program for low-income individuals, veterans, and othe...
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Malvern-based CertainTeed, and its parent company Saint-Gobain North America, won three manufacturing leadership awards from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the companies announced Tu...
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Pennsylvania Rep. Tom Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) said he will introduce a bill that would spur the development of small modular nuclear reactors to produce clean energy despite weather conditions and sunshi...
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State Senate Republicans vowed to fight Pennsylvania from joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in court after the Senate on Monday came one vote shy of overriding Gov. Tom Wolf's veto of a r...
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U.S. Reps. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Conor Lamb (D-PA) introduced legislation Friday that would promote the commercial deployment of advanced nuclear reactors on the sites of former fossil fuel plants. ...
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Pennsylvania Rep. James Struzzi (R-62nd District) announced last week that he would introduce legislation to prioritize using Pennsylvania companies when it comes to plugging orphaned and abandoned we...
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Pennsylvania Rep. Stan Saylor (R-York) announced Wednesday that his resolution urging New York and New Jersey to end their states’ policies banning new natural gas pipelines passed in the state Hous...
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A bill that would head off Gov. Tom Wolf’s controversial order to bring Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was passed in the state House of Representatives Wednesday. ...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf joined U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Marty Walsh in pointing out the importance of apprenticeship programs during the opening of the Yellow Corporation’s new tr...
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Pennsylvania’s proposed participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state compact designed to enact a carbon tax on energy producers, would nearly quadruple new electrici...
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Pennsylvania House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee passed several measures that seek to maximize energy independence, ramp up domestic energy production across the state, and unleash the ...
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Pittsburgh Works, a coalition of businesses and unions, unveiled a proposal on Friday to renew Pennsylvania’s focus on manufacturing and energy as the drivers for the state’s economy. The prop...
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A new poll from Consumer Energy (CEA) has found that the majority of Americans believe immediate domestic energy production is the only way to bring down high gasoline prices. The poll found that ...
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