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The left-most contingent in the Pennsylvania Democrat Party wants to ban all fracking in the state. It's fringe, but all such oddball movements start out as fringe. Of particular note in this election season is that a group of these ban-fracking nutters have gotten themselves on the ballot in 15 PA House and Senate races
MARSHALL, Texas - The Harrison County Commissioners Court recently approved the disbursement of $120,000 from the Texas Permanent School Fund to benefit all six school districts in the county.
The University of Pennsylvania and Radnor-based Community Energy have broken ground on two solar facilities in central Pennsylvania that will provide about 75% of the electricity needs for Penn's Philadelphia campus and health system. The combined 220-megawatt project will be one of the largest in Pennsylvania, where solar installations have been increasing in recent years.
Conservatives want to block state attorneys general from partnering with a Michael Bloomberg-backed fellowship program in environmental cases.
Abortion is effectively banned in Oklahoma after Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt Wednesday signed a bill prohibiting the procedure in all but a few cases.