Gov. Tom Wolf sent a letter Tuesday to Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in response to the senator’s request for sugges...
Read More
Site Selection magazine recently named Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley one of the top five fastest-growing regions with under a million people in the United States. It was also recognized as the fa...
Read More
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently completed its environmental assessment and concluded the benefits of the proposed Chrin Landfill expansion outweighs the harmful...
Read More
Catalyst Connection, an industrial resource center supporting the growth of small manufacturers in western Pennsylvania, will receive a grant to support the development of a mobile game designed to h...
Read More
Pin Oak Energy Partners LLC announced Monday that it closed several transactions related to assets located in north-central Pennsylvania. Pin Oak Energy acquired producing Marcellus and convention...
Read More
A bill introduced Monday by state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-Philadelphia) aims to protect the state’s cyber infrastructure from cyberattacks. The bill would create a Cybersecurity Innovation Comm...
Read More
State Rep. Tedd C. Nesbit (R-Butler/Mercer Counties) said in a recent memorandum that he plans to introduce legislation to establish a sales and use tax exemption for certain equipment purchased by d...
Read More
Third-party logistics provider Kenco Logistics recently announced that it opened a regional distribution center in Pittsburgh, Penn., for Shell Lubricants. “We have enjoyed developing this custo...
Read More
Beaver-based Beemac Logistics, a transportation and logistics provider, plans to open a new office on Pittsburgh’s North Shore. The approximately 10,000-square-foot office will be located in the...
Read More
State Sen. Vincent J. Hughes (D-Philadelphia) said last week he plans to introduce two bills aimed at reducing the state’s poverty rates. “Poverty is real and its impact cuts across the ...
Read More
Sen. Scott Martin (R-Lancaster) recently introduced legislation that would repeal statutes that allow some public sector unions in Pennsylvania to collect fees from employees even if they choose to d...
Read More
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently approved filings by the four FirstEnergy electric distribution companies serving Pennsylvania for supplements to tariffs designed to remove b...
Read More
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) recently imposed antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duties on imports of plastic decorative ribbon from China. The ITC and the U.S. Department o...
Read More
U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Tom Carper (D-DE) and Chris Coons (D-DE) recently asked the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to consider the Philly Shipyard for a national ship...
Read More
The Robert Morris University School of Engineering, Mathematics and Science held a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Laboratory Feb. 6. The 200,000-sq...
Read More
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently adopted a resolution that designates February 2019 as Career and Technical Education Month in Pennsylvania. The resolution, House Resolution 88, ...
Read More
The House of Representatives recently advanced legislation that would rebrand a state program that provides planning assistance to local governments in an effort to increase use of the program.The Ea...
Read More
Pennsylvania State University in fiscal year 2017 contributed more than $11.6 billion to the state’s economy and, directly and indirectly, supported more than 105,000 jobs, according to study by Da...
Read More
The state House recently advanced legislation introduced by Rep. Jim Cox (R-Berks/Lancaster) that would prohibit future employees of a multi-state commission from participating in the state’s publi...
Read More
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Patrick McDonnell said during a recent state hearing that natural gas has helped Pennsylvania to meet its Clean Power Plan goals. “We were ...
Read More