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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Pennsylvania Sen. David Argall(R-Berks/Schuylkill) proposed new legislation Wednesday that would prevent companies doing business with Russia or Belarus from receiving state contracts, grants, or tax ...
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Neighborhood Allies, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, and the national nonprofit Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund announced they will launch “Small Business Boost,” a ne...
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Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Bellefonte) introduced a bill Monday to significantly cut the state’s liquid fuels tax. Senate Bill 10, the Consumer Gas Prices Relief Ac...
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Canonsburg-based Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, Inc., asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to approve revised rates sot that it may further upgrade ad replace portions of its underground na...
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The Pennsylvania Chamber recently joined other chambers from the United States and Canada in filing an amicus brief in support of the Line 5 pipeline and plans to build the Great Lakes Tunnel. Oth...
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