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The Pennsylvania Energy Resources Group, LLC is the premier strategic consulting, project development, and public affairs firm in the Mid Atlantic region specializing in alternative energy projects. PA-ERG was formed in 2006 as a joint venture between two of the region’s top public affairs and business consulting firms, to fill the gap between ideas and government support, and to help meet the real business needs of clean energy companies in developing the equipment, services and financing necessary to grow in the commercial marketplace.
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 Pitts Pushes Waste to Energy
U.S. Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA) highlighted the many benefits of waste-to-energy this week, citing Lancaster County, during a speech he delivered on the House floor. Pitts said that waste-to-energy can help put "America on a path toward energy independence." He said the operation was saving pollution from going into the Bay, saving land from being used as landfill, and generating electricity, noting that “ one ton of solid waste has the equivalent energy of one barrel of oil.”
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 Senate Recognizes Need to Support Agriculture for Biofuels Production
Senator Mike Waugh (R, York) and the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee have voted out the Pennsylvania Farms to Fuels Initiatives Act (SB 1317.) The bill is the first piece of legislation in the two-year energy debate which takes state action to provide incentives to farmers for production of bioenergy crops in the Commonwealth.
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 Conferees Announce Farm Bill Agreement – White House Vows Veto
House and Senate negotiators Thursday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next five years, but USDA Secretary Ed Schafer immediately said President Bush will veto the bill.
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 What’s in a Name? Producer Incentives
The Senate recently passed Special Session SB 22, which provides incentives for the state’s biodiesel producers, and the State House of Representatives will soon be considering similar legislation. But ERG sees much confusion among policymakers in terms of what these incentives are, and what other states are doing.
ERG has researched all 50 states to look at exactly what these states are really doing to provide incentives for biodiesel and ethanol production…
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