March 10, 2010

Starting in April, funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will make it possible for tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians to reduce their energy consumption and save money through a new rebate program for home heating equipment. The $11 million program will provide rebates of between $100 and $500 on the purchase of new, Energy Star-rated non-electric residential hot water heaters, furnaces and boilers. The higher the equipment's efficiency rating, the larger the rebate will be. For more information, visit depweb.state.pa.us and click on Energy Rebates.

A bill designed to curtail dating violence among teens was debated Wednesday in the House of Representatives and is now poised for a final vote. H.B. 2026 would integrate teen dating violence education into middle and high school curriculums, and would require school districts to develop an anti-dating violence policy. Statistics show teen girls are three times more likely to experience relationship violence than adult women and one in five high school girls report being physically or sexually hurt by a dating partner.

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