Cook Announces $36 Million In Energy-Sector Grants

HARRISBURG – Rep. Bud Cook (R‑Greene/Washington) announced on Wednesday, grants for two employers who hire individuals who live in the 50th District. The grants, which total a little more than $36 million, will be used to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, lower energy costs and strengthen the area’s industrial economy.  Cook says the companies receiving the grants are CNX Green Ventures LLC – which will get $31.5 million to install special ventilation wells at the Enlow Fork coal mine. He says the project will use a pipeline system to safely capture and transport the methane for offsite processing.  The other company is Iron Senergy Holding LLC., that will receive $4.8 million to install a device to capture coal mine methane.  Cook says the funding is awarded as part of the Medium-scale Award Track (MAT) and Large-scale Award Track (LAT) of the Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA) program. In total, more than $267 million was awarded to manufacturing projects across Pennsylvania through the RISE PA program.