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In continuous publication since 1913, the PMA Legislative Bulletin (The Bulletin) is the association’s official newsletter on business, governmental, and political affairs. Issued regularly, The Bulletin is a concise, easily readable, and expertly informed digest of events and trends in public policy. While focused primarily on state government, The Bulletin also provides news on urgent federal issues as well as the activities of Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation.
The House and Senate have begun budget hearings in a run-up to approving a state budget by the June 30 deadline, and the challenge for lawmakers will be injecting a much-needed dose of fiscal reality into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s lavish spending plan before final approval. The Shapiro plan is cursed with shiny object syndrome – ...
Upcoming congressional hearings will examine what could be the worst political pandering yet by the Biden Administration to its progressive base. The left was jubilant over the president’s recent freeze on permits for new liquified natural gas (LNG) export projects in the U.S. The move threatens not only billions-of-dollars invested in current projects, but the ...
Chalk up a rare win for the hard-working consumer in the self-destructive war being waged by anti-fossil fuel radicals. Two weeks ago, a federal appeals court in California affirmed an earlier decision that the city of Berkeley has no authority to ban natural gas infrastructure for new business and residential buildings as per legislation City ...
For the second year in a row Pennsylvania has landed on the top of the American Tort Reform Association’s (ATRA) 2023/24 shameful pile of “Judicial Hellholes,” courtesy of the anti-business fervor of two of its courts. Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court are not only guilty of awarding and sustaining excessive ...
Governor Josh Shapiro is trumpeting Pennsylvania’s success in securing two regional clean hydrogen hubs, one site each in Philadelphia and West Virginia, which he says will create 41,000 high-paying jobs. However, the governor’s victory statement should have also repudiated legislation in the House, HB 170, that would virtually wipe out the natural gas industry in ...
Pennsylvania’s energy industry and consumers won a massive victory in Commonwealth Court with Wednesday’s ruling that the go-it-alone Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) regulatory scheme ordered by former Gov. Tom Wolf constitutes a tax, a direct violation of the state Constitution that grants taxing authority solely to the General Assembly. The majority ruling, written by ...
The working group Gov. Josh Shapiro assembled to sort out the mess that is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and Pennsylvania’s possible participation in it, was strikingly non-committal in its final report. There was one crucial point that legislative leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R-Indiana), have made ever since the prior administration:  ...
Delaware County, the Greater-Philadelphia area, and all of Pennsylvania stand to benefit from the development of a liquified natural gas (LNG) export hub, but surrendering to the radical Greens’ anti-production agenda will let another transformational economic investment slip away. Opportunity is knocking, but competitor states will be glad to take our place if we don’t ...
Over a month late, the fractured budget process in Harrisburg lurched forward last week with the Senate sending Gov. Josh Shapiro funding for K-12 public schools and other core government services. The governor quickly signed it, but line-item-vetoed a $100 million scholarship program for students trapped in Pennsylvania’s lowest-performing public schools.    However, this is ...
In a shocking reversal, Governor Josh Shapiro says he will line-item veto the scholarship program designed to rescue children who are trapped in Pennsylvania’s lowest-performing schools. Shapiro made the veto promise to House Democrats to win passage of the FY 2023-24 General Fund Budget, which had previously passed the Republican-held state Senate. The governor claimed ...