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    Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease
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    Coal miners are getting new protections from silica dust linked to black lung disease
    MATTHEW DALY and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press 
    Apr 16, 2024
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine wo...
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    Biden EV plan needs American mining
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Biden EV plan needs American mining
    RICH NOLAN 
    Apr 01, 2024
    The Biden administration has just supercharged the electric vehicle (EV) revolution. With its finalized tailpipe emissions rule, the administration ex...
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    Pa. county joins other local governments in suing oil industry over climate change
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    Pa. county joins other local governments in suing oil industry over climate change
    MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press 
    Mar 28, 2024
    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, as...
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    Inflation hitting gas pumps again
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    Inflation hitting gas pumps again
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 25, 2024
    The national average price for a gallon of gasoline has risen 27 cents in the last month, standing at $3.51 per gallon Monday. That’s an increase of 6...
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    Gas prices jump in Pa. as national average climbs
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    Gas prices jump in Pa. as national average climbs
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Mar 19, 2024
    The price of gasoline is marching higher, which an industry analyst says happens every year as spring blossoms. “Most Americans continued to see avera...
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    DIFFERENCE MAKERS: Bayne, Bradford oil man and financier, led a life of difference making
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    DIFFERENCE MAKERS: Bayne, Bradford oil man and financier, led a life of difference making
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Jan 17, 2024
    Samuel Gamble Bayne, a resident of Bradford in the late 1800s, may be best remembered in Pennsylvania lore as the founder of the First National Bank o...
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    Edwin Drake’s quest for oil lives on in Pa. energy producers
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    Edwin Drake’s quest for oil lives on in Pa. energy producers
    BRIANNA HOWARD Special to The Era 
    Oct 19, 2023
    Our modern lives would be worse off today without the discovery of oil in my home state of Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake, a man whose name and legacy is...
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    Same geology, same drilling, different resource: Geothermal interest simmers in Pennsylvania
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    Same geology, same drilling, different resource: Geothermal interest simmers in Pennsylvania
    ANYA LITVAK Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Sep 26, 2023
    A friend once told Brian Regli that "we, Pennsylvanians" prefer to get our energy from the ground, not the sky. Mr. Regli, now the executive director ...
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    Unearthing our potential
    Daily Headlines, Opinion, Сolumns
    Unearthing our potential
    REP. MIKE ARMANINI 
    Sep 12, 2023
    Historically known as a hub of industrial innovation, Pennsylvania is now poised to enter a new era of economic prosperity through the mining and refi...
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    MUG endows scholarship at Pitt-Bradford
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    MUG endows scholarship at Pitt-Bradford
    Sep 07, 2023
    The members of Marcellus & Utica Gas (MUG), a group of individuals associated with suppliers, services and manufacturers in the oil and gas industry, ...
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    Reclamation success story in PA Wilds
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    Reclamation success story in PA Wilds
    JOHN ECKSTROM Special to The Era 
    Aug 26, 2023
    Many waterways in Pennsylvania are devastated by acid mine drainage, a man-made legacy from coal mining that leaves some waterways devoid of aquatic a...
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    ‘Dr. Betty’ to be honored with Elk Co. road naming
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    ‘Dr. Betty’ to be honored with Elk Co. road naming
    Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 22, 2023
    Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...
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    Desk and Derrick
    Local News, News
    Desk and Derrick
    Aug 18, 2023
    PYOGA Desk and Derrick Club ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — PYOGA Desk and Derrick Club met at St. Bonaventure Golf Course for dinner Wednesday. Olean histori...
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    Museum racing to preserve oilfield history
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    Museum racing to preserve oilfield history
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    Aug 12, 2023
    With a little bit of forethought two years ago, Penn Brad Oil Museum saved space for (still more) of the region’s history. While work was underway in ...
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    Bill Cline among newly inducted to NY oil producers’ Wall of Fame
    Bill Cline among newly inducted to NY oil producers’ Wall of Fame
    Jun 27, 2023
    BOLIVAR, N.Y. — The late Bill Cline, legendary Bradford, Pa., oilman, was among six individuals to be honored with induction into the New York State O...
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    2 from Bradford to be inducted NY oil producers Wall of Fame
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    2 from Bradford to be inducted NY oil producers Wall of Fame
    Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
    Jun 09, 2023
    BOLIVAR, N.Y. — Two from Bradford will be among six men to be inducted into the New York State Oil Producers’ Association Wall of Fame, located at the...
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    Solving the global energy crisis starts in Pa.
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Solving the global energy crisis starts in Pa.
    STEPHANIE CATARINO WISSMAN 
    Feb 08, 2023
    The United States is the world’s top producer of natural gas and oil, and millions of consumers across the country and around the world rely on Americ...
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    Lecture series at library to highlight key oil figures, historical aspects of oil industry
    News
    Lecture series at library to highlight key oil figures, historical aspects of oil industry
    JOELLEN WANKEL jwankel@bradfordera.com 
    Sep 10, 2021
    The area is getting ready to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of sweet crude in the Bradford Oil field on Sept. 18. As a lead-in to th...
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    Accept challenge to help miners
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Accept challenge to help miners
    Apr 27, 2021
    Pennsylvania has vast experience with the gut-wrenching struggle to overcome the demise of dominant industries. It is an ongoing process more than 70 ...
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    Penn Brad Oil Museum derrick dismantled for safety
    Bradford, Local News, News
    Penn Brad Oil Museum derrick dismantled for safety
    JOELLEN WANKEL jwankel@bradfordera.com 
    May 25, 2020
    The oil derrick at the Penn Brad Oil Museum, a long-standing landmark along Route 219 just outside Custer City, had to be taken down in an emergency d...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    June 15, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    June 14, 2025
    PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    June 14, 2025
    HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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