Small business owners in Pennsylvania want to expand but are struggling to find qualified workers, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported recently. Pennsylvania’s unemplo...
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The Brookings Institution recently released a report titled Ideas for Pennsylvania’s Innovation Policy, which examines innovation policy in Pennsylvania and other states. The report noted that Pe...
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The hemp industry in Pennsylvania is making a comeback as the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issued more than 300 permits on nearly 600 acres at more than 800 different growing locations so fa...
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Pennsylvania state officials and Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) President and CEO David N. Taylor recently visited Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) to offer help and advice relat...
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Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. named Bryan Lewis to as its next chief investment officer on Monday. Lewis will be responsible for the company’s global pension obligations and related ...
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System One, a provider of staffing, workforce solutions and integrated services based in Pittsburgh, announced Monday that one of its companies, ALTA IT Services, LLC recently acquired Cohesion. Co...
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The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners recently approved two five-year and one 10-year non-surface agreements to develop natural gas and oil beneath three state game lands. Snyder Brothers In...
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The City of Pittsburgh recently launched public engagement efforts to develop a transportation vision plan. PGH MOBILITY 2070 will establish a framework to guide investment, development, and manage...
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Alcoa Corporation, a global leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminum headquartered in Pittsburgh, announced Tuesday that the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certified three Alcoa-operated locat...
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William Kramer will serve as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon an...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its 2019 report on Our Nation’s Air, which shows that the levels of criteria pollutants in the air have decreased by 74 percent between 19...
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Four U.S. Senators recently hosted a roundtable discussion of Black Lung Disease. Attendees included coal miners and their families, healthcare experts and the president of the United Mine Workers of ...
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In a letter sent to Gov. Tom Wolf Tuesday, the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pa., Marcellus Shale Coalition, and Pa. Independent Oil & Gas Association presented science-based evidence that the gr...
Read MoreA recent study from Escalent named PPL Electric Utilities one of the most trusted utility brands in the country and the best among electricity-only utilities in the eastern United States, PPL said Mon...
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Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) joined Clarion officials, the Clarion Blueprint Communities team, local businesses, and community organizations on Monday for a tour of downtown Clarion to celebrate the bor...
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Pennsylvania Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) recently expressed his support for the 14 state-owned universities that are freezing tuition for the 2019-20 school year....
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The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) highlighted Monday the Marcellus Shale Energy and Environmental Laboratory (MSEEL), a test well project aimed at improving natural gas production effic...
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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released Wednesday its 2018 Oil and Gas Annual Report, which showed record levels of unconventional gas production and highlighted improved pe...
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Pittsburgh can potential reduce carbon emissions by nearly 75 percent by 2030, according to a Siemens City Performance Tool report, exceeding its current goal of 50 percent. The reduction would cr...
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Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Joe Manchin (D-WV) requested an update at a hearing held Tuesday by the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on a prop...
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