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Pennsylvania needs regulatory reform

Pennsylvania has led the way on natural gas exploration, producing and exporting more energy than ever before, creating good jobs, injecting billions of dollars into the economy and helping to drive down emissions. We can continue to spur industrial growth and economic development, advance emissions reductions and improve our environment with a regulatory framework that supports these ideals. Meaningful action on regulatory reform must happen now so that Pennsylvania’s economy can grow while we prepare to meet the energy demands of the future – including carbon capture, hydrogen ...

Hydrogen hubs won’t create jobs

Leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Gov. Josh Shapiro, are gleefully celebrating hydrogen hubs as a political two-for-one deal: good-paying union jobs coupled with clean, renewable energy. However, hydrogen hubs will create neither jobs nor clean-burning energy. Instead, these overhyped projects provide publicity to Biden and Shapiro, who are both desperate to deliver on their climate promises. In November, Biden announced that, as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed in 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $7 billion on ...

Refund should be due for the University of Pittsburgh’s poor work

Late this summer, the University of Pittsburgh released the so-called findings of a “study” by the School of Public Health examining the health impacts of shale gas development in southwestern Pennsylvania. The study, funded by a $2.5 million state grant under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Health in 2020, is inherently and deliberately misleading and disingenuous. In what was supposed to be a scientific undertaking, the University commissioned lead researcher, Dr. Evelyn O. Talbott, who has publicly expressed opposition to natural gas in the past, to complete their ...

Joseph Goebbels has returned

Joseph Goebbels was the notorious minister of propaganda to Adolf Hitler. He was known for the, “big lie.” Goebbels used the new medium of cinematography very effectively to create facts and history where none existed. Goebbels pushed the agenda that certain people, the so-called non-Aryan Jews, were demons who, by instinct and training, would destroy the white Germanic race. It is a somewhat odd paradox, that today anti-Semites claim that Jews are as evil as other white colonialists and oppressors. To Hitler’s propaganda, the Jews were not white; and to modern anti-Semites, they ...

Tunnel to Towers expands mission to leave no veteran behind

SHANKSVILLE — Two Augusts ago, I joined Frank Siller a few miles from his quest to reach this Somerset County borough as part of his 537-mile tribute walk to all those lost in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The walk started in Washington, D.C., and would end at Ground Zero in New York just in time for the 20th anniversary of the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center. Siller lost his brother Stephen that day, a fireman who had just finished his shift at Brooklyn’s Squad 1 when he learned a plane had hit one of the towers at the World Trade Center. The younger Siller strapped 60 ...

Spotlight PA’s journalism cuts through the noise

HARRISBURG — State capitols are the testing grounds for the future of our country. New policies and novel legal theories on everything from abortion to education to election administration are being shaped at the state level. And the decisions made in Harrisburg have a far greater effect on your life than the little done in Washington, D.C. these days. That’s why Spotlight PA’s investigative and public-service reporting on the state capitol and urgent statewide issues is more vital than ever. Our journalism holds the powerful to account, keeps track of your tax dollars, and ...