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Federal transportation officials joined city leaders Thursday to celebrate an $11.3 million infrastructure investment in the City's Hill District.
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There are an estimated 15,000 abandoned wells on federal land — and states have indicated that they would need more than $8 billion to clean up 130,000 other orphaned wells.
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The Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee met at The Frick Pittsburgh, roughly half a mile from the collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge.
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Three bills won near-unanimous support from city councilors on Wednesday.
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Several hundred millions of dollars from the bipartisan infrastructure package could support a project to introduce a second roundtrip Amtrak train between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
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Pittsburgh City Council will take another week to craft an approach to the needs of city-owned infrastructure, after a charged discussion of the issue during a council meeting Wednesday.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: SpotlightPA reporter Ed Mahon explains why the Justice Department alleged that eight Pennsylvania counties’ courts may have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it applies to people with opioid use disorder; the executive director of the Mountain Watershed Association tells us why federal infrastructure funding could also help clean waterways that are polluted by abandoned mine runoff; and a look at how severe weather patterns are impacting local businesses.
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Pennsylvania could receive up to $171.5 million over the next five years to build more electric vehicle charging stations along the state's major highways.
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Airports are among the first transportation projects to be funded by the federal infrastructure package, including several southwestern Pennsylvania hubs.
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The Census Bureau also estimates the poverty rate in Scranton is nearly double that of Pennsylvania’s.