“Let there be no doubt, this EQB vote represents a major milestone in Pennsylvania’s efforts to combat climate change,” Joseph Otis Minott, executive director and chief counsel of Clean Air Council, said in a statement.

Mack Truck has announced that it will commercialize the Mack LR Electric refuse truck it has been testing, and the trucks will be manufactured in the Lehigh Valley.

Pottsville-based D.G. Yuengling & Sons Inc. is heading west. The family-owned craft brewer, which is the nation’s oldest continually operating brewery, has inked a deal with Molson Coors Beverage Co. to launch a long-term brewing partnership, that expand Yuengling’s 22-state distribution footprint the farthest west it’s been available.

Four Berks County farms were among five farms to receive more than $1.8 million in support from the Pennsylvania First Industries Fund, two of which were to help with the recently announced expansion of Bell & Evans.

The Forks Township-based manufacturer of crayons and other art supplies said it is now using 100% renewable energy for its operations.

Because of production delays caused by the company’s manufacturing shutdown during the COVID-19 crisis earlier this year it has decided it won’t be putting out any specialty peeps or other candies this year so it can concentrate on its biggest holiday – Easter.

To mark the 25 anniversary of the last steel beam made at Bethlehem Steel, a number of community organizations are organizing “Last Cast 25,” a series of events that will include the Steel Weekend at the National Museum of Industrial History, Sept. 26-27.

A monument to Bethlehem Steel workers who served in the military has found a new home at the National Museum of Industrial History, which is located on former Steel property in South Side Bethlehem.

After announcing a contract to provide nitrogen to a memory chip maker in Malaysia, Air Products of Trexlertown said it has also just been contracted to provide Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers to a company in Algeria.

Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley will soon have a new leader. The Volvo Group, which owns Mack, has named Gunnar Brunius as vice president and general manager of the plant in Lower Macungie Township.