PA Headlines | May 7 | Why Gov. Shapiro wrote a letter to 24 water, gas and electric utilities.

Governor Josh Shapiro says the system formed in the last century to regulate utilities is broken. Shapiro wrote a letter to two dozen water, gas and electric utilities in the state outlining benchmarks required for his Administration to support any future rate hikes.Pennsylvania has been awarded a federal grant to install a geothermal project at an existing natural gas site in western Pennsylvania. The pilot project is the first of its kind in the Eastern U.S.Pennsylvania has filed suit against a company that specializes in artificial intelligence, claiming its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and deceive the system’s users into thinking they're getting medical advice from a licensed professional. The Shapiro administration called it a first of its kind enforcement action by a governor, and it comes amid growing pressure by states on tech companies to rein in its chatbots' potentially dangerous messages, especially to children.A Baltimore developer has submitted plans for a data center complex in Perry County - encompassing nearly 1.5 million square feet.Cases of bird flu have been discovered at Maryland's Conowingo Dam, along the Susquehanna River, just over the Lancaster County line.