Pennsylvania’s manufacturers must be able to procure plentiful, reliable, and affordable energy. This requires an infrastructure system and a regulatory climate that fosters generation, transmission, and distribution systems throughout the commonwealth. Now more than ever our nation and commonwealth need to move away from the energy politics that have failed so badly over the past decades and put our nation’s own resources to work for American consumers. Lawmakers should be focused on unleashing American energy leadership rather than hamstringing progress through an onslaught of duplicative permits and regulations.
Wolf’s destructive electricity tax is now official
April 29, 2022 | Energy
Despite rising inflation, sluggish pandemic recovery, war in Europe, and global supply chain struggles, Governor Wolf is going into overdrive to impose his crippling electricity tax, which became official last week. Wolf’s go-it-alone effort started with an executive order in October 2019, which called for Pennsylvania’s entry into a multi-state compact of 11 Northeastern and ...
The Pennsylvania Leadership Conference (PLC), the annual Harrisburg gathering of Pennsylvania’s conservative activists, is indispensable for political enthusiasts. This year’s two-day event featured forums that included Republican candidates for U.S. Senator and Governor. But the PLC also offers commonsense panel discussions on topics that directly affect our economic and political freedoms – energy and voting ...
The House on Wednesday is almost certain to approve a concurrent resolution that will at least delay Pennsylvania’s joining a compact of states, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), where membership is coming with the specter of ever higher costs for the power generation industry, and consumers, and businesses statewide Fossil fuel power producers in ...
Manufacturing tax credit pays off big for NEPA and PA’s natural gas industry
November 17, 2021 | Energy
The residents of Northeast Pennsylvania hit the jackpot recently thanks in part to a manufacturing tax credit enacted in 2020 to attract multi-million dollar investments in our natural gas industry. In late October, a Texas-based firm, Nacero, announced plans to invest $6 billion on the site of a former coal mine in Nanticoke to manufacture ...
The all-out assault on Pennsylvania’s world-class energy industry by a small, yet increasingly vocal, group of rabid environmentalists is what keeps state Sen. John Yudichak (I-Luzerne/Carbon) up at night. The economic fallout from recently cancelled or stalled natural gas projects suffocated by litigation from the far left is already unfolding before us, he warns, and ...
State Rep. Craig Williams: Marine, prosecutor, lawmaker, energy expert
September 24, 2021 | Energy
State Rep. Craig Williams’ (R-Chester, Delaware) resume is the envy of any kid dreaming of becoming president. He was personally decorated 11 times, twice for valor in combat, in the Gulf War where he served as a Marine flight officer (think “Goose” in the movie “Top Gun,” he says) in the F/A-18D. “With two sets ...
Last Friday, the General Assembly approved a $40.8 billion state spending plan for FYI 2021-22, without raising taxes. This budget, which covers the fiscal year starting July 1, marks seven in a row where lawmakers have rebuffed Gov. Tom Wolf’s requests for higher taxes, as he has proposed historically high tax increases in most years. ...
Texas power grid fiasco demonstrates foolishness of Wolf’s RGGI proposal
February 24, 2021 | Energy
The rolling blackouts in Texas stemming from a freak-shot of bitter weather demonstrated the unreliability of boutique power, and, by mere chance, coincided with an important decision in Pennsylvania. Last Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) recommended that the Wolf administration delay for a year a plan to impose a carbon tax by joining ...
Those most harmed by the Wolf Administration’s “March to the Sea” regulatory campaign to destroy jobs in Pennsylvania’s energy industry have a two-month window to fight back. A public comment period, November 7 to January 14, 2021, has opened before the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC). “Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is in full compliance with ...
Back in September, a broad cross section of the commonwealth’s top job creators sent state lawmakers and Governor Tom Wolf a preemptive, cautionary letter urging them not to slap the energy industry with new, additional taxes to balance the remaining portion of the state budget left hanging by the quick onset of the pandemic in ...