{"id":282474,"date":"2026-09-09T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282474\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:56:09","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmaker-seeks-to-rename-lake-erie-to-lake-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/282474\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9\" aria-label=\"Tasmin Mahfuz profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ee3b9e0b-c62f-4d02-923c-95c976d19fe9_1718896865.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tasmin Mahfuz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ERIE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">State Rep. David Maloney, a Republican, is advocating for Lake Erie to be renamed Lake Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Maloney said he is drafting a resolution to call on President Donald Trump and the Department of the Interior to implement the name change.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This initiative comes after President Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Maloney said Pennsylvania punches above its weight in maintaining Lake Erie, noting that other states border multiple Great Lakes while Pennsylvania borders only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks to rename Lake Erie to Lake Pennsylvania ERIE COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 State Rep. David Maloney,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33400,260,117934,28,30,9318,29,368,117936,117935],"class_list":["post-282474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-executive-order","tag-lake-erie","tag-lake-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-lawmaker","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-renaming-lake-ontario-as-lake-america","tag-state-rep-david-maloney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282474","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=282474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}