The Northeast Pennsylvania Manufacturers and Employers Association recently awarded Clearly Clean Products, an Orwigsburg-based recyclable rolled-edge tray packaging company, with the Manufacturers an...
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U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) announced he has been named the co-chair of the Congressional Coal Caucus for the 118th Congress. “Coal is one of the most useful sedimentary deposits on Earth. Not o...
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Legislation recently advanced by the state Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee would establish and support public-private partnerships between universities and private en...
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On Monday, the Pennsylvania Senate’s Environmental Resources and Energy Committee heard testimony about the state’s grid reliability and infrastructure, as well as the future of the state’s powe...
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Conservative policy experts denounced passage on Monday by the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s Democrat-heavy House Labor and Industry Committee of a state constitutional amendment that would give t...
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Between 2017 and 2021, Ben Franklin Technology Partners generated $6.1 billion for the state economy and $400 million in tax receipts by helping to create 16,006 jobs, according to an independent econ...
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A new report from the Keystone Research Center has found that the production of “green locomotives” in Erie, Pa., could mean thousands of additional jobs. In cooperation with United Electric, ...
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The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is looking for small and medium-sized manufacturers in Southwestern Pennsylvania interested in incorporating robotics into their operations. ...
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The Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Task Force met in Philadelphia last week to discuss solutions to increase the export of LNG from Pennsylvania’s ports. “The state’s rich deposits of natural gas s...
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In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) asked for swift implementation of the Tech Hubs Program, as well as locating a Tech Hub in Pennsylvania. Created by...
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The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) recently awarded $4.8 million in Mixed-Use Development Tax Credit Program grants to seven projects to construct or rehabilitate mixed-use developments. ...
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The Pennsylvania House Majority Policy Committee recently held a hearing on the importance of career and technical education and how it enhances the work force. “A college education is not the ...
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A group from the Keystone State has submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Energy to build a hydrogen hub in Pennsylvania. The DOE, via the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Ac...
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Legislation soon to be introduced in the state Senate would establish a regulatory framework and taxing structure on skill video games. Under the bill, games would be required to be connected to a ...
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The American Petroleum Institute (API), an organization representing the natural gas and oil industry, recently urged the Biden administration to change guidance on permitting process. In a letter ...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Office of Public-Private Partnerships (P3) recently opened the unsolicited proposal period for transportation projects from the private sector. ...
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The tech industry in Pennsylvania added nearly 9,900 new jobs last year, a new report from CompTIA said last week. CompTIA’s annual “State of the Tech Workforce” report found that net tech e...
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Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R-Westmoreland) recently appointed Sens. David Argall (R-Beaver), Ryan Aument (R-Lancaster), Rosemary Brown (R- Lackawanna), and Devlin Robinson (R-Allegheny) to...
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Legislation recently introduced in the state House of Representatives would create state tax incentives to promote redevelopment and the reuse of abandoned or neglected factory or mill buildings. H...
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Researchers at West Virginia University announced Tuesday a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will allow them to study methane emissions from liquid storage tanks across West Virginia, Pen...
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