PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 19 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 18, 2023, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area - June 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 5.8 percent in Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended June 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 19 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 15, 2023, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Virginia - First Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in all 12 large counties in Virginia from March 2022 to March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on Sept. 18, 2023: NETL will leverage its technical expertise and successful track record of innovation to help lead a $1.3 billion interagency initiative to reduce methane emissions - a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) and major driver of climate change - across the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. The Lab's pivotal role in reducing methane emissions from the oil   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it has removed the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission as a party to the investigation into a March 24 natural gas-fueled explosion and fire at Building 2 of the R.M. Palmer plant in West Reading, Pennsylvania. The NTSB said the Pennsylvania PUC violated the terms of the agency's party agreement by not providing unredacted inspection and   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: A resident of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States. Nocito, former CEO and President of Pittsburgh-based Automated Health Systems (AHS), will serve - in addition to his prison sentence - 3 years of supervised release, which includes six months on  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: Raymond Briskey was convicted of committing cocaine and crack trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Briskey, age 38, of Sharon, Pennsylvania, pled guilty before United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti. He pled guilty to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and cocain  more