Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget proposal doubles funding for the Manufacturing PA Innovation Program and increases funding for Pennsylvania’s PA Smart Program by 25 percent. Shapiro will give a budg...
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Nearly all nursing facilities in Pennsylvania have open direct care positions, according to a recent Pennsylvania Health Care Association (PHCA) report. The report is based on results from a survey...
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The state Senate recently adopted a resolution that urges President Joe Biden to restart and expedite the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. On Biden’s first day in office, he canceled the p...
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The leadership for the Pennsylvania Senate Republicans laid out their principles and priorities Wednesday. Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward (R-39), Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R-41), and App...
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The PPG Foundation invested $16.2 million in 2022, a more than $2.5 million increase from 2021. The funding supported more than 650 community partners and programs worldwide that advance educatio...
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Legislation recently re-introduced in the state Senate would prevent companies with connections to the Russian government from receiving state tax dollars. Senate Bill 282 would prevent companies o...
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Pennsylvania Rep. Joshua Kail (R-Beaver/Washington), the chair of the House Republican Policy Committee, said during a regulation hearing Tuesday that commonsense should rule regulation reform to alle...
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The Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) recently made $6 million available in Statewide Layoff Aversion Program funding to support at-risk businesses. Funding can be used for Rapid Response Serv...
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Legislation soon to be introduced in the state Senate would modify the permitting process for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Under the bill, the DEP would be require...
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TD Bank, which has locations in 63 Pennsylvania cities and towns, announced Wednesday it would launch a five-year Community Benefits Plan that would provide an estimated $50 billion impact to its comm...
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Pennsylvania Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23) announced Thursday that he will be reintroducing legislation to help establish the legal and regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (C...
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New technologies and pipeline development present an opportunity for natural gas from Appalachia to fuel not just the region, but the world, said David Callahan, president of the Marcellus Shale Coali...
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The Pittsburgh campus of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, is slated to host a new, multi-million-dollar direct air capture center (DAC...
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Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-Lehigh) said on Wednesday that he plans to sponsor a bill that would authorize the creation of a select committee in the State House of Representatives to review th...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announced this week that it had awarded the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership of South-Central Pennsylvania a $250,000 grant to support the ...
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The federal Inflation Reduction Act will provide $10 billion in new funding for the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit program. The program incentivizes industrial decarbonization, clean ene...
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The Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) plans to create a re-entry program designed to help those formerly incarcerated in federal prisons pursue family-sustaining jobs. This will be the first o...
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Legislation soon to be re-introduced in the state Senate would modernize how public transportation systems are managed. Under the bill, Title 74 would modernize the management of public transportat...
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Philadelphia’s Smart City PHL team at the Office of Innovation of Technology recently launched the Permit Navigator pilot project. The project’s goal is to understand if the Permit Navigator t...
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Pennsylvania Reps. Joshua Kail (R-Beaver/Washington) and Eric Nelson (R-Westmoreland) pushed House Speaker Mark Rozzi (D-Berks) to bring the House of Representatives back into session to legislators c...
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