SHAPIRO ADMINISTRATION SPEEDS UP PERMITTING, LICENSING

Pennsylvania state government leaders are trying to fulfill a promise to speed up the process for state licensing, permitting and certifications. The Shapiro administration said Friday it has received 24-hundred separate licensing, permits and certification requests and was reviewing them. They include certain permissions to be granted by the Pennsylvania Department of State and 750 separate ones for the Department of Environmental Protection.  A news release from the governor’s office says the Department of State has cut corporate-filing process times from eight weeks down to one-and-a-half weeks.