{"id":166040,"date":"2026-04-15T02:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:39:11","slug":"interior-sec-burgum-visits-lackawanna-college-in-scranton-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166040\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Sec. Burgum Visits Lackawanna College in Scranton, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-117912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/field-trip-200x300.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Lackawanna College yesterday to observe how students are trained for energy-focused careers in natural gas, petroleum, and robotics. He emphasized that these students will contribute to the growth of key industries, creating significant career opportunities. Burgum, joined by Congressmen Rob Bresnahan and Dan Meuser, commended the college&#8217;s programs and shale industry-donated equipment, highlighting their role in an American renaissance driven by energy, innovation, and manufacturing. He also discussed how data centers, or &#8220;AI manufacturing,&#8221; could utilize Pennsylvania&#8217;s Marcellus Shale natural gas to generate electricity, bringing economic benefits and lowered utility costs, drawing parallels to his experience in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#13;<br \/>\nTo view this content, log into your member account. (Not a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellusdrilling.com\/join-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join Today!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Lackawanna College yesterday to observe how students are trained for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-166040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}