Thomas R. Henchey, Business Manager
Around the Local
Workers at Ingalls Shipbuilding have ratified a new contract featuring the largest single wage increase in the shipyard's history, a milestone win for IBEW and affiliated unions.
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The Shapiro administration issued administrative orders blocking two proposed ICE detention centers in Berks and Schuylkill counties, asserting that converting the warehouses to hold 9,000 people would exceed local water and sewage capacity and violate state environmental regulations.
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The PA House Energy Committee advanced two bills along party lines requiring large data centers to report annual energy and water usage and establishing a model local zoning framework municipalities can adopt to guide where and how such facilities are built.
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Gov. Shapiro is courting major tech investments including Amazon and Microsoft as dozens of data centers are planned statewide, but experts warn the grid was not designed for customers to come online at this scale, raising questions about power supply, water demand, and local land use planning.
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PA utility regulators warn that ratepayers will face higher costs as neighboring states lean on Pennsylvania generation to back up their renewable energy targets, while surging demand from data centers and electric vehicles creates what critics describe as a perfect storm for the regional grid.
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