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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.

Emerging Trend: A Constitutional Crisis

September 18, 2020 | Energy

After a contentious meeting, the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) voted 13-6 this week to toss aside the objections of business, organized labor, and consumer groups, and move forward with Governor Tom Wolf’s plan for Pennsylvania to join a cartel of ten Northeastern states that taxes carbon emissions. Following the EQB vote, PMA’s President & CEO, ...

FBI arrest of Ohio House Speaker over nuke bailout corruption is a lesson for PA

July 30, 2020 | Energy

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio filed bribery and racketeering charges against Speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder and four others over the enactment of nuke bailout legislation and subsequent efforts to thwart a statewide voter referendum. FirstEnergy Corp., whose lobbyist was among those arrested and charged, funded the corrupt influence ...

Disastrous nuke bailout in Ohio offers cautionary tale for Pennsylvania lawmakers

October 16, 2019 | Energy

Any Pennsylvanians who believe the hype surrounding a nuclear bailout should take a close look at what’s been going on in Ohio. Just hours after bailout legislation (HB 6) was approved in Ohio in July, FirstEnergy Solutions (FES), one of the big drivers behind the nuke subsidy bills, torpedoed their union employees – a group ...

PMA’s Taylor returns from natural gas advisory visit to Australia

August 02, 2019 | Energy

Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) is trying to decide how best to harness a newly-discovered onshore natural gas play to drive economic growth, and for five days at the start of July, PMA President & CEO David N. Taylor joined Pennsylvania state officials on a visit to the NT to offer help and advice. “The Beetaloo ...

Harrisburg budget choices: more taxes or more jobs

May 22, 2019 | Business Tax Relief | Energy

Governor Tom Wolf has been travelling the state peddling this year’s version of his tiresome tax hike plan. His redundant tax on natural gas production is masquerading as an infrastructure improvement plan under the hopeful sounding name of “Restore Pennsylvania.” In typical tax-and-spend political irony, the plan would penalize the success of the very industry ...

Carbon cap-and-trade debate belongs before General Assembly

April 23, 2019 | Energy

An economy-wide, cap-and-trade carbon emission petition sent to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) last week for review not only undermines the General Assembly’s authority to debate such a costly and far-reaching regulatory scheme, but it raises constitutional concerns as well. “This is unprecedented for the scope of the impact this would have on the ...

Economic Study Urging Pipeline Infrastructure Investment

January 14, 2019 | Energy

Open your wallets; Wolf on crusade against carbon

January 09, 2019 | Energy | Regulatory Reform

Governor Wolf recently joined a regional compact of eight other states and Washington D.C. to reduce carbon from motor vehicle emissions. The newly formed “Transportation and Climate Initiative” has a hopeful government promo line: cap-and-invest. But if this latest top-down market meddling follows the same path as the program it’s modeled on, the Regional Greenhouse ...

Workers, Not High-Earners, Are the Real Winners with Tax Reform

November 01, 2017 | Energy

President Donald Trump, in a bold claim echoed by economists and business leaders, said his tax reform plan will be “like rocket fuel” for the economy. Last week, the U.S. House set the stage to approve that plan. To get it to the President’s desk by end of the calendar year, Republican Leaders will have ...

Repeal of Obama Energy Mandate Cheered by Industry

October 18, 2017 | Energy

Early last week, Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the start of the repeal of an Obama energy mandate for power plants. The true goal of the mandate wasn’t lower global temperatures, as trumpeted by the Obama administration, but the crippling of the coal industry through manipulation of the fuel supply mix for power plants. ...