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The Senate was the only chamber in session this week.

As 2021 is winding down, the House of Representatives and the Senate were in session for the final week of the year. Both chambers will be back in Harrisburg on January 4 for one session day...

Government transparency and the public right to know is a standard to which we hold public officials accountable. Recent examples in Pennsylvania illustrate the consequences when that standard is not upheld. Earlier this month, the discovery that the Pennsylvania Department of State had failed to publicly advertise a proposed constitutional amendment referendum to extend legal recourse for victims of sexual abuse resulted in the amendment proposal becoming ineligible for a statewide ballot. The error set back the amendment process by more than a year. The administrative oversight caused then-...

jwhittaker@post-journal.com AP Photo Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at a campaign rally for Pennsylvania candidates in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. HARRISBURG — State Senate Republicans are continuing their fight against Gov. Tom Wolf’s attempt to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In a party-line vote, the state Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, chaired by Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Bradford/Lycoming/Sullivan/Susquehanna/Union, sent a letter to the state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission urging its review of concerns expressed by numerous commentators, incl...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Congress addressed the issue of interstate transport of air pollution in the Clean Air Act by enacting a “Good Neighbor Provision.”  That provision requires upwind states to eliminate their contributions to air pollution in downwind states.  EPA has promulgated various rules to implement the Good Neighbor Provision, beginning with the NOx Budget Trading Program and including the Clean Air Interstate Rule and, most recently, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). These rulemakings address the interstate transportation of o...