The Commonwealth Foundation’s newly released energy policy platform, EnergyVisionPA.org, endorses eight guiding principles to advance market-driven energy policies and five policy solutions for Penn...
Read More
Natural gas will have an increasingly critical role in fueling and maintaining the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and advanced manufacturing, particularly as energy demand continues rising, acc...
Read More
With many companies facing or expecting to face a skills gap in the coming years, help could come from a Pennsylvania Republican’s proposed federal legislation, which would create a pilot program to...
Read More
Pennsylvania Rep. Torren Ecker (R-Adams/Cumberland) joined members of the State House Republican Policy Committee and business leaders in identifying solutions to enhance the commonwealth’s economic...
Read More
A new study released on Monday supports the Section 199A deduction for small and family-owned businesses, mirroring a bipartisan bill led by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) that would make the deductio...
Read More
U.S. Steel Corp., the United Steelworkers Union (USW), and Wheeling-Nippon Steel Inc. filed antidumping and countervailing duty petitions on Sept. 5 with the U.S. Commerce Department and the U.S. Inte...
Read More
State Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R-41) on Thursday said plans by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to raise rates to address its budget deficit warrants serious r...
Read More
Universal Ingredients Shank's manufacturing campus in Lancaster County, Pa., opened Sept. 4 following a $30 million expansion during a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by company representatives, stat...
Read More
Alongside the growing reliance on electricity from Pennsylvania’s PJM Interconnection, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s electricity proposals could further destabilize the PJM grid, which supplies power to 65 ...
Read More
On Wednesday, workers at Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel hosted a rally at U.S. Steel Tower in support of the proposed transaction with Nippon Steel. Employees with the steel plant said the transaction w...
Read More
Eos Energy Enterprises Inc., which provides zinc-based energy storage systems, said Aug. 29 that it has achieved all four of its first performance milestones and can draw an additional $30 million on ...
Read More
Two newly approved projects in China will include AP1000 technology-based nuclear reactors made by Cranberry Township, Pa.-based Westinghouse Electric Co., bringing the total number of operational and...
Read More
Pennsylvania State Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23) recently announced plans to introduce legislation to establish a Pennsylvania Baseload Energy Development Fund. The proposed fund would provide low-interest...
Read More
With Election Day mere weeks away, one policy topic is supported on both sides of the aisle in the Keystone State: natural gas, which is considered by lawmakers and voters alike as being critical to a...
Read More
Japan's largest steel producing company, Nippon Steel Corp., plans to make additional investments in two steel plants operated by U.S. Steel as part of its pending acquisition of the Pittsburgh-based ...
Read More
Participants in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania House Majority Policy Committee roundtable and tour examined obstacles for small businesses, particularly those in rural areas across the state. “I’m gr...
Read More
Cranberry Township, Pa.-based Westinghouse Electric Company and France’s EDF are protesting the Czech Republic’s recent decision to award a multi-billion-dollar nuclear tender to South Korea's KHN...
Read More
Ridgway, Pa.-based Allegheny Contracting LLC, a Department of Transportation-qualified pipeline and site work contractor, has new ownership. Morgenthaler Private Equity (MPE) Partners and its portf...
Read More
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on Aug. 19 that more than $51 million in funding from the Multimodal Transportation Fund has been awarded to 66 transportation projects in 32 counties in the s...
Read More
Pennsylvania’s CONSOL Energy Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Arch Resources Inc. to combine in an all-stock merger of equals to create a diversified coal producer serving global st...
Read More