CNX investing $30M in tristate area
CNX Resources Corp., an independent natural gas development, production, and midstream company, recently announced it will invest $30 million throughout the tristate area over six years. The invest...
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Air Products acquires remaining stake in gasification technology joint venture
Allentown-based Air Products announced Wednesday that it had completed the acquisition of its equity stake in its gasification technology joint venture (JV) with China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemi...
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New Jersey company purchases Pittsburgh manufacturer
New Jersey-based Eos Energy Enterprises, a sustainable zinc-based energy storage systems company, recently purchased the remaining 51 percent ownership stake in HI-POWER, a Pittsburgh manufacturing fa...
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Packaging manufacturer expanding operations in Pennsylvania
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, Project Canary announce multi-basin gas partnership
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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Tech companies partner for autonomous vehicle technology
Pittsburgh-based Ansys, an engineering simulation company, recently partnered with Velodyne, a LIDAR solutions company, to develop software models of next-generation automotive LIDAR sensors for highl...
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Northampton Community College receives funding for manufacturing training program
The state’s Manufacturing Training-to-Career program recently awarded Northampton Community College (NCC) $199,997 in funding to develop the Industrial Skills for Manufacturing training program. ...
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Legislators meet with local business leaders affected by COVID-19 restrictions
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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Apprenticeship programs receive more than $51,000
Apprenticeship programs in four counties recently received more than $51,000 in funding from Pennsylvania’s Pre-Apprentice and Apprenticeship Grant Program to connect participants with classroom tra...
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Talen, Pattern energy groups enter into joint venture
Talen Energy Corp., one of North America’s largest competitive power generation and infrastructure companies, and Pattern Energy Group, developers and operators of wind, solar, transmission, and ene...
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Reps. Fitzpatrick, Houlahan lead delegation effort to eradicate Spotted Lanterfly in Pennsylvania
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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Crown Holdings selling its European business
Yardley-based Crown Holdings, a rigid packaging products supplier, recently entered into a definitive agreement to sell its European tinplate business to KPS Capital Partners, an investment funds comp...
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House advances bipartisan solvency bill
The state House of Representative recently voted to advance a bill that creates a bipartisan Keystone Solvency Operating Study (SOS) Commission to improve the state’s financial standing and outlook....
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Stephanie Catarino Wissman: On Natural Gas in PA
PA Natural Gas: Lots of jobs, lots of taxes, let’s tax it more. Is that good idea? API’s Stephanie Catarino Wissman on the state of PA’s natural gas industry and challenges ahead. Listen t...
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Pennsylvania trucking torn between tax hike and smooth roads
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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Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council opposes Wolf’s push for RGGI participation
Thomas Melcher, business manager of the Pittsburgh Regional Building Trades Council, recently sent a letter to the Pennsylvania legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf expressing the council’s opposition to t...
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Legislation would prevent purchase of solar panels using tax money
A bill recently introduced in the state Senate would prohibit the purchase of solar panels and related components manufactured or assembled outside the United States using state taxpayer dollars or ta...
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Federal legislation would extend tax deadline for small businesses
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) recently introduced legislation that would extend the first quarter estimated tax payment deadline for small businesses to May 17. This would align it with the revised ...
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Labor & Industry to transition to new unemployment compensation system in June
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. Wolf announces nearly $3M in funding for businesses in Bucks, Franklin, Luzerne counties
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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