Indiana, PA / WDAD AM1450 & 100.3FM
Feb 20, 2021 7:40 AM
State house budget hearings are set to resume next week, and on the schedule are two departments that have caught the interest of State Represenative Jim Struzzi.
In his weekly newsletter, Struzzi, who is on the House Appropriations Committee, said the focus of the budget hearings is to assess the financial requests of state agencies and review the effectiveness of their operations.
Next week, the Department of Health will have a full day of budget hearings, taking up both sessions on Thursday, February 25
th. Discussion is expected to focus on the department’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the distribution of vaccines, which has come under fire this past week due to announcements of mix-ups and weather-related delays.
Indiana, PA WCCS AM1160 & 101.1FM
Feb 17, 2021 4:38 AM
Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission yesterday called for a one-year moratorium on the implementation of Governor Tom Wolf’s order for the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and questioned whether the governor has the right to unilaterally join the compact without the approval of the state legislature.
A joint news release by Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee chair Gene Yaw and vice chair Joe Pittman outlines the IRRC’s nine-page comment document, which asks the DEP’s Environmental Quality Board to delay the RGGI implementation by a year, directs it to provide details on Wolf’s unilateral decision, and explain point-by-point how it was empowered to develop the regulation despite the rejection of RGGI by the Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee, the Citizens Advisory Council, and the Small Business Compliance Advisory Committee.
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