U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) recently introduced a bill that aims to reduce the price that seniors pay for prescription drugs. "Medicare's prescription drug program limits insu...
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Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Beaver/Washington/Greene) announced Friday that several rail freight improvement projects in Washington and Beaver counties will receive state grants from the Pennsylvania De...
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Montgomery County Commissioners recently adopted a $428.4 million budget for 2020. The budget provides a 2.75 percent wage increase for all nonrepresented employees effective Jan. 1 and includes l...
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The National Petroleum Council (NPC) recently released two reports, one on infrastructure permitting solutions and one outlining a roadmap for at-scale carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) deploymen...
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Rep. Barb Gleim (R-Cumberland) recently announced that Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding appointed her to a three-year term on the State Commission on Agricultural Education Excell...
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The Pennsylvania Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee held a public hearing in Chambersburg Dec. 12 to address the need for regulatory reform for local businesses as well as the overall econo...
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F.N.B. Corp. will relocate its corporate headquarters for First National Bank to FNB Financial Center in downtown Pittsburgh. The 24-story, mixed-use tower is planned for the corner of Washington ...
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Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Secretary Jerry Oleksiak announced Tuesday the availability of approximately $6.6 million in PAsmart Apprenticeship grants. "Building the strongest workforce in...
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Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) and Osaka Gas announced Tuesday that the CPV Fairview Energy Center (CPV Fairview) in Jackson Township near Johnstown, Pa., a 1,050-megawatt (MW) natural gas and ethan...
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Astrobotic Technology, a space robotics company, plans to relocate its headquarters from Carnegie Mellon University to Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The company will invest $6.55 million ...
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Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, a specialty metals manufacturer headquartered in Pittsburgh, announced Tuesday that it signed several new long-term contracts to supply GE Aviation with iso-therma...
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President Donald Trump and House Democrats reached an agreement Tuesday to approve the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), drawing praise from Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania. Offic...
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Pennsylvania is the nation’s second-largest natural gas provider, according to an Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) report. The state’s production volume grew 10.8 percent this year, 2 percentag...
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Tyber Medical, LLC, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for its new medical device manufacturing facility in the Lehigh Valley. The company, which manufactures private label orthopedic and spinal...
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The Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn Power) recently announced that it expects to complete several projects by the end of the year to improve service reliability for approximately 20,000 customers in ...
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Limelight Bio, a multi-disease biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies, recently raised $75 million in financing funded by life sciences innovation fund Apple Tree Partners (ATP). The c...
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Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) Secretary Jerry Oleksiak recently toured Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in New Stanton and discussed the importance of investing in job traini...
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Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, recently entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase the company's domestic pandemic in...
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PPG Industries recently announced it will raise the price of industrial coatings products up to 10 percent globally. The increase will go into effect as early as permissible by contract or on Jan....
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Sen. Lisa M. Boscola (D-Lehigh/Northampton) expressed disappointment following a recent announcement by transportation officials that the planned Route 22 expansion project would be placed on indefini...
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