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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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Legislation soon to be introduced in the state Senate would modernize the state’s exemption statute to protect small businesses and encourage entrepreneurship.
Many entrepreneurs open businesses ...
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On Thursday, Pennsylvania Rep. Stephenie Scialabba (R-Butler) held a hearing for the House Republican Policy Committee focusing on workforce development to meet employers’ and consumers’ needs.
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State Sens. Ryan P. Aument (R-Lancaster County) and Sen. Greg Rothman (R-Cumberland/Dauphin/Perry) plan to introduce legislation soon in the state Senate that would accelerate the reduction of the Com...
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A new executive order, signed by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, will give businesses a money-back guarantee that government agencies will respond to their licensing and permitting applications within...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced he has established the Pennsylvania Office of Transformation and Opportunity via executive order on Tuesday, a new office designed to stimulate economic develo...
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The state Senate Majority Policy Committee recently held a hearing in Pittsburgh to discuss energy access and affordability.
The hearing also discussed grid reliability. Speakers testified about th...
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Drexel University in Philadelphia is currently offering a registered apprenticeship program approved by the Pennsylvania Apprenticeship and Training Council (PATC) to prepare students for jobs as cybe...
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has granted a license to New York City-based Approved Energy to serve electric customers across the Keystone State, the company said Tuesday.
Approved Ener...
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Pennsylvania Republicans this week laid their cards on the table with a written list of demands aimed at killing the reviled Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) one way or another.
Twenty-seven...
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