News Digest :: October 5, 2019

Legislature Once again, Pa. House will bar nonbelievers from giving invocations https://whyy.org/articles/once-again-house-will-bar-nonbelievers-from-giving-invocations/ Funding transportation in Pennsylvania has been a bumpy road...

News Digest :: October 4, 2019

Legislature Senate hearing focuses on big issues facing emergency services in state https://www.delcotimes.com/news/senate-hearing-focuses-on-big-issues-facing-emergency-services-in/article_d6f95c46-e60b-11e9-b6e9-f3d371b8bdaf.html Williams says supervised injection...

Senator Costa Applauds Governor’s Move on Environmental Protection, Pledges to Continue the Fight in the Legislature

Pledges to Continue the Fight in the Legislature

Harrisburg, Pa.  − October 3, 2019 − Senate Democratic Leader Jay Costa, Jr. applauded Governor Tom Wolf’s move today to instruct the PA Department of Environmental Protection to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

RGGI is a market-based collaboration among nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change while generating economic growth.

News Digest :: October 3, 2019

Legislature Survivors’ stories ‘made an impact’ on senators weighing changes to Pa.’s statutes of limitations...

News Digest :: October 2, 2019

Legislature Pennsylvania taking steps toward its own ‘Fair Pay to Play Act’ https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2019/10/01/california-fair-pay-to-play-act-gavin-newsom-pennsylvania/stories/201910010178 Pa. college athletes could earn financial...

Leach propone la prohibición constitucional del fracking

HARRISBURG – October 1, 2019 – State Senator Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery/Delaware) today announced legislation to create a constitutional amendment banning hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania. “My staff and I have toured fracking sites all over this commonwealth and...