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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A multi-state and federal government agency permanently banned natural gas drilling in the watershed that leads to the Delaware River on Thursday, a move the oil and gas industry blasted as ignoring s...
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U.S. Rep. Troy Balderson (R-OH) criticized a recent report from the think tank Ohio River Valley Institute that said 22 counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia responsible for 90 percent of the ...
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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Monday that raising the federal minimum wage would have a harmful impact on jobs following a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the budgetary effects of the R...
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce denounced last week’s reintroduction of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which the world’s largest business organization argues includes “harmful poli...
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Nine members of the Pennsylvania delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter last week to House leadership urging the inclusion of the RESTAURANTS Act in future COVID-19 relief legis...
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced this week it will hear arguments in the PennEast Pipeline’s eminent domain case against the state of New Jersey, drawing praise from several energy organizations, in...
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U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) recently introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would create a plan to help mine operators tackle occupational COVID-19 exposure. The COVID-19 Mine ...
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President Joe Biden’s moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands and his order canceling the Keystone XL pipeline project were a shot across the bow of Pennsylvania’s economy, the energy i...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration recently authorized the construction of two additional National Security Multi-Mission Vessels (NSMV) to be constructed at the Philly ...
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The American Petroleum Institute (API), which represents all natural gas and oil industry segments, hosted its annual State of American Energy Wednesday. API President and CEO Mike Sommers spoke a...
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The U.S. Department of Labor recently clarified the standard for employee versus independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The department’s ruling clarifies four is...
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