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Pennsylvania Democrats and labor leaders around the Commonwealth have continued to chime in and attack Republican Treasurer Stacy Garrity’s endorsement from an anti-labor organization that supports right-to-work laws across the country.
The Keystone reported that Garrity was backed by the Associated Builders and Contractors Keystone Chapter PAC in her race against Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) this November.
“Pennsylvania’s union construction workers deserve elected leaders who stand unequivocally with organized labor—not those willing to embrace the backing of groups that have consistently worked against the interests of working families,” Jim Enders, President of Central Pennsylvania Building Trades said in a statement.
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With 2028 coming down the road, Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Allegheny) is crisscrossing Pennsylvania campaigning for candidates up and down the ballot, per Punchbowl News.
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Speaking of Garrity, Democrats are hammering her time as director of Global Tungsten & Powders, which cut hundreds of jobs at its Towanda plant through multiple rounds of layoffs from 2012 to 2019, per Spotlight PA.
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A massive South Korean-made transformer arrived at Three Mile Island on Monday to help reboot the nuclear power plant’s second act and generate electricity for Microsoft AI data centers, per Penn Capital Star.
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(Sean Kitchen / The Keystone)
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Shapiro signed an executive order curbing data center development across the Commonwealth at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday.
Shapiro touted the executive order as one of the strictest sets of guidelines placed on data center development across the country, and it returns approval for data center development to local municipalities.
“ With this executive order, I’m putting these developers on notice and letting them know that we will not let them bully my fellow Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro said at Tuesday’s press conference.
“We will not let them disregard your constitutional right to clean air and to pure water, and we will not let them drive up your utility bills. If these companies want to do business here, they need to comply with, now, the strictest guardrails in the nation on data center development, and that starts today.”
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