A major upgrade of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works south of Pittsburgh was abruptly canceled as part of the steelmaker’s campaign to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2050, the company announced Fri...
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Agriculture contributes $132.5 billion annually to the state economy and supports more than 590,000 jobs paying nearly $33 billion in wages, according to a report released in coordination with Team Pe...
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The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy (ERE) Committee advanced legislation this week that would require legislative approval of Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposal to enter Pennsylvania into the Regi...
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Both the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB) and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation endorsed Sen. Gene Yaw’s (R-23) Senate Bill 465 during a news conference Monday at Flinchbaugh’s Orchard and Farm Market i...
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Emissions data for Chester-based Covanta’s Delaware Valley Waste-to-Energy facility owned is now available online, the company said. In an effort to allay residents’ concerns over emissions at...
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The Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus announced their intention to block all nominations to the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) until Gov. Tom Wolf revokes his “unilateral” decision to j...
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Pittsburgh-based OneValley, a global innovation platform, launched this week its Pittsburgh Entrepreneurship Platform (PEP) – a site for Pittsburgh-based startups that provides them with an online c...
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With President Joe Biden’s $3 trillion infrastructure package on the table, Pennsylvania’s top building trades, business, manufacturing, and energy leaders on Wednesday stressed how state-produced...
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Harrisburg-based Ben Franklin Technology Partners and its network of entrepreneur clients helped lift Pennsylvania’s economy during the pandemic, keeping people employed and helping the state with i...
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The House Majority Policy Committee released a report on Tuesday based on a survey of 921 businesses from across Pennsylvania that were impacted by COVID-19 about what business owners need to recover ...
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U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) recently sent a letter to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee urging for robust infrastructure funding for the state and her district to be included in th...
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Sen. John Yudichak (I-District 14), chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, led two days of hearings on April 13 and 14 to discuss the economic impact of the te...
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Sharp, a clinical supply chain services and contract pharmaceutical packaging company, recently announced it will expand operations at existing facilities in Allentown and Conshohocken and construct a...
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Chesapeake Energy has joined with Project Canary to launch a pilot partnership to produce certified responsibly source natural gas in the Marcellus shale at two well pads in Pennsylvania, the companie...
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Pennsylvania Reps. Joe Kerwin (R-Dauphin/Schuylkill), Tim Twardzik (R-Schuylkill), and Martina White (R-Philadelphia), the House Majority Caucus Secretary, held a roundtable discussion in Harrisburg o...
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U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Chrissy Houlahan joined a bipartisan delegation asking U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for additional funds for spotted lanternfly research. In their let...
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A bipartisan congressional delegation was scheduled to travel up impeccably paved Pennsylvania Avenue from Capitol Hill to the White House Monday for the first official discussions on the Biden admini...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) announced Thursday it will transition to a new unemployment compensation system on June 8, 2021. The new system will replace the current 40-...
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Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday that Pennsylvania will provide $2.7 million in low-interest loans to three companies in Bucks, Franklin, and Luzerne counties. Funded through the Pennsylvania Ind...
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State Sens. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie), Scott Martin (R-Lancaster), and Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) recently advocated for an increase in Pennsylvania’s allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (AR...
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