Mount Nittany Physician Group welcomes Caitlin Taylor, CRNP

Mount Nittany Health is pleased to announce the addition of Caitlin Taylor, CRNP, to Mount Nittany Physician Group Urology. Taylor earned her bachelor’s degree in health science/public health from Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College and her Master of Science in Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve […]

RKL Names Kathy Gutierrez Director of Human Resources

RKL LLP announced that Kathy Gutierrez, MSHRD, CPLP, PHR, SHRM-CP, has been promoted to the role of Director of Human Resources, effective May 1, 2018. In her new role, Gutierrez oversees all facets of the firm’s HR function, including recruiting, training, policies and benefits, performance management and other strategic team initiatives. “Kathy’s firsthand experience working with the RKL team as […]

Attorney Aimee Willet Leads Mt Aloysius Mock Trial Team

Mount Aloysius College Interim President John Mills, Ph.D. announced that Aimee L. Willet, Esq. will be Head Coach of the College’s Mock Trial Team beginning with the 2018 fall semester.  Attorney Willett is a cofounding partner of the Altoona-based Fanelli Willet Law Offices.  She has served as an adjunct professor at Mount Aloysius College since 2004. Before earning her Juris Doctor from […]

Pennsylvania to require gas drillers to reduce air pollution

Pennsylvania will begin enforcing tougher air pollution standards on its booming natural gas industry, the governor’s office said Thursday, with environmental advocates saying the standards will put the state among the leaders in going beyond federal requirements. The new permits will take effect in August and begin requiring the Marcellus Shale exploration industry to use more advanced equipment to reduce […]

Times-Tribune Calls for Gas Well Standards

(The Times-Tribune) – Pennsylvania has the oldest gas and oil industry in the United States, dating to the nation’s first commercial oil well, drilled in Venango County in 1859. That well, only about 70 feet deep, was the first of more than 300,000 that have been drilled since. They are distinct from the wells that characterize the relatively new gas […]

Ultra Petroleum Names Jay Stratton Chief Operating Officer

Ultra Petroleum Corp.  announced that Jay Stratton has joined the Company as Chief Operating Officer.

Sustainable Energy Fund Receives $5,000 Grant from West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund to co-fund Energypath 2018

West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund (WPPSEF) has presented Sustainable Energy Fund (SEF) with a $5,000 grant to co-fund Energypath 2018, which will be held July 23-26, 2018 at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. Energypath is the region’s largest sustainable energy event, attracting industry professionals, policymakers and academia throughout the region and across the United States. “We are thankful to WPPSEF […]

Study finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from fracking

A University of Cincinnati study found no evidence of groundwater contamination from recent oil and natural gas drilling in several Appalachian counties in eastern Ohio.