Penn State researchers will lead a $1.2 million Department of Energy (DOE) project to find critical minerals in coal mining byproducts in northern Appalachia. The Consortium to Assess Northern Appa...
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A bill that would create a National Infrastructure Bank would rebuild, replace and revolutionize infrastructure in Pennsylvania and the United States without raising taxes, four Pennsylvania legislato...
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Two Pennsylvania facilities are among 31 recipients awarded grants through the federal Maritime Administration (MARAD) Small Shipyard Grant Program. Grants are to be used for increasing productivi...
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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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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) recently introduced legislation that would make permanent the full and immediate expensing provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,...
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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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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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UGI Energy Services and UGI Utilities, two UGI Corp. wholly owned subsidiaries, recently joined the Natural Gas Supply Collaborative (NGSC). NGSC, an organization of natural gas purchasers, provide...
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The long-delayed Northern Access Pipeline in western New York is once again on track for eventual completion following a federal appeals court ruling that granted its approval to an agreement to exten...
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U.S. Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) recently joined more than 30 of her colleagues in the Democratic Manufacturing Working Group, which will examine key issues to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing sector. ...
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ENGINE of Central PA STEM Learning Ecosystem, a Penn State-led STEM organization, is part of a group making recommendations to the Biden-Harris administration on how to improve STEM. The group is c...
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A bill introduced this month in the U.S. House of Representatives could wallop Pennsylvania's burgeoning shale gas industry and related chemical sectors. Shale gas is the raw material driving major...
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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and two other U.S. Congress members recently reintroduced legislation that would increase cooperation between the United States and its allies to identify and counter sec...
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U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) introduced two bills in Congress that would spur federal funding to reclaim abandoned mine lands. One is the Abandoned Mine Land Reauthorization Act, introduced alo...
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Lawyers for a $1 billion PennEast natural gas pipeline project will have the legal backing of the Biden administration when they head to the U.S. Supreme Court next month to overturn a 2019 lower-cour...
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come out against the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 9. The PRO Act (H.R. 842), which passed in the Hou...
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Pennsylvania State Rep. Frank Burns (D-Cambria) is urging President Joe Biden to extend tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2018. In a written request ...
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The U.S. Department of the Interior recently awarded Pennsylvania a $27.4 million grant through the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act’s (SMCRA) Abandoned Mine Land (AML) grant program. T...
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U.S. Reps. Fred Keller (R-PA) and Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Education and Labor Committee ranking member and Republican leader, recently sent a letter to Al Stewart, acting Secretary of Labor, urging the ...
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U.S. Rep. John Joyce (R-PA) recently joined Congressional leaders, President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris in a discussion on America’s supply chains. “Today, I went to the White ...
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