The Department of State is submitting to the Department of General Services (DGS) voluntarily gathered information from small businesses. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order in September di...
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During a budget hearing with the Senate Appropriation Committee on Tuesday, the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) said its anticipated about $8 billion less revenue for the state over the next five year...
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On Friday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the state would be investing more than $3.2 million into U.S. Boiler Company’s expansion of its Lancaster facility. The company, which designs...
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Bipartisan legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would expand K-12 career counseling services. The Counseling for Career Choice Act would provide additional resources...
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Pennsylvania House Republicans are pushing the legislature to reduce governmental burdens to business ownership by acting on the “Main Street Entrepreneurship Initiative.” The package of bills...
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The U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation recently awarded Philadelphia’s Plug In Philly initiative a $1.47 million Ride and Drive Electric program grant. Plug In Philly is a two-year pi...
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On Monday, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) joined local elected county and state officials in opposing a hydroelectric pumped storage facility in York County proposed by York Energy Storage, LLC. I...
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On Friday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) announced the U.S. Army will modernize its fleet of heavy lift helicopters made in Ridley Park, PA. The Congress members...
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Electric distribution company FirstEnergy Corp. recently awarded Pittsburgh-based Energy Innovation Center Institute (EICI), a nonprofit organization providing skills-based work force training for peo...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) recently awarded more than $4 million in Competitive Equipment Grants to 55 career and technical centers (CTCs) and school districts statewide for the pu...
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On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) criticized President Joe Biden's recent pause on new liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects, while touting Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry, during a...
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Gov. Josh Shapiro and Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding recently highlighted areas of Shapiro’s 2024-25 budget that focus on agriculture and rural communities. Proposed investments include...
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The state Senate Appropriations Committee recently advanced legislation that would establish an Independent Energy Office. Under Senate Bill 832, the office would be modeled after the state’s Ind...
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Legislation recently introduced in the state Senate would repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax, which was enacted through executive order in 2019. The bill would repeal a...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his 2024-25 budget to the General Assembly on Tuesday, a $48.3 billion proposal that relies on the state’s surplus reserves to invest in education, economic d...
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Allentown, PA-based PPL Corporation announced Friday that it and its research partners have been awarded $72 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to fund ...
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On Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, members of the Pennsylvania Senate and the Ohio General Assembly held a hearing on energy reliability, sustainability and affordability. Pennsylvania Sen. Gene Yaw (...
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On Monday, the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC) announced it will provide support to more than a dozen life sciences startups in the state. Part of PABC’s initiative, the Academic Innova...
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Republican Candace Cabanas is facing off against Democrat Jim Prokopiak in a closely watched Feb. 13 special election to fill a state representative seat for House District 140 in Bucks County. T...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently awarded $2.232 million in research grants for project proposals statewide. Research grants address issues critical to sustaining and growing Penn...
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