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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.

Criminals Disguised As Protestors Pay Under Scott Martin Legislation

September 05, 2017 | Energy

Senator Scott Martin (R-Lancaster) has cleverly taken a well-established principle in the retail business and applied it to protestors who corrupt the right to free speech: you break it, you bought it. The Commonwealth Cost Reimbursement Act Legislation (SB 743), which Martin introduced with five other Senate Republicans, including Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati ...

To build a better future, Harrisburg must change its ways — NOW

August 09, 2017 | Energy

It’s more than just the weather driving people South and West. North Carolina has enjoyed budget surpluses for five straight years. Over the same time, manufacturers there have created hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs, and business and personal income taxes have been slashed. Pennsylvania keeps slogging along in the other direction. The Senate ...

“Zero emissions credits” for radioactive waste?

July 19, 2017 | Energy

Late last week, a federal judge in Illinois dismissed a lawsuit filed against a one-year-old state law that subsidizes nuclear power through higher bills on residential and business customers. On Monday, the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA), the lead plaintiff seeking an injunction, appealed the ruling to the 7th Circuit in Illinois, but the judge’s ...

State Government Leaders Back in Harrisburg Rummaging for Funds

July 05, 2017 | Business Tax Relief | Energy

The General Assembly returns to Harrisburg this week in search of more than $2 billion to fully fund, as required by law, the $32 billion spending plan that was sent to the governor last Friday. The available options are all unwelcome: borrowing; more gambling; increasing taxes; shifting money between funds. “Pennsylvania’s economy continues to underperform. ...

Study: Pennsylvania Poised for Unprecedented Investment in Petrochemical Manufacturing

March 28, 2017 | Energy

Last week, Community and Economic Development Secretary Dennis Davin was pitching Pennsylvania at the World Petrochemical Conference in Houston, armed with tantalizing new data. “We are pretty new to the petrochemical business so there’s still a certain mindset to overcome when selling Pennsylvania,” Davin said. “But now I have the data to back up exactly ...

Spending-First, Revenue-Later budget stalls in Harrisburg

July 05, 2016 | Business Tax Relief | Energy

The General Assembly and Governor Tom Wolf are still working towards a budget agreement, which, as of this writing, will likely be finalized in the weeks following the June 30 deadline. While no one facing re-election wants to repeat last year’s bruising nine-month budget battle, the kind words exchanged about this year’s budget talks have ...

Pipeline Task Force Comes Up Short

March 23, 2016 | Energy | Regulatory Reform

Governor Wolf’s announcement last summer that he was assembling a pipeline task force came with certain assurances. The Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force (PITF) would not masquerade as a pretext for burying the oil and gas industry under more regulations. Rather, it was understood that the PITF would identify best practices for expediting the needed lines, ...

Climate Data Shenanigans from Wolf and Obama

December 02, 2015 | Energy | Regulatory Reform

Pennsylvania is charging ahead with regulations to implement the Obama Administration’s master plan to cool down a planet we are told is on the verge of boiling over. Twenty-seven states, three labor unions and 24 national associations have sued in federal court to block implementation of the “Clean Power Plan” (CPP). Not Pennsylvania. Nearly all ...

Broken Promises Of Green Energy Programs

September 17, 2015 | Energy

As lawmakers hold firm against the Wolf tax increase proposals they are also warding off some bad actors that go along with them. A proposed increase in the tax on Marcellus Shale drilling would fund a retread of a failed Rendell Administration attempt to muscle green energy into the marketplace. The evidence keeps piling up ...

PA Wrongly Endorses Carbon Rules: Other States Prepare Legal Action

August 12, 2015 | Energy

Sixteen states, with many more on the way, have already banded together to pursue legal action to stop the implementation of Barack Obama’s “Clean Power Plan”. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania won’t be joining the party. Governor Tom Wolf, in fact, rushed to release a statement last week in supporting the president after he announced the final rule ...