WELLSBORO — Company officials say a century-old glass factory will close a year from now, affecting about 114 hourly and salaried employees.

Osram Sylvania has announced that the Wellsboro manufacturing plant will close as of September 2016.

The Danvers, Mass.-based firm said some employees are eligible to retire and others may apply for positions in other company locations.

The Tioga County plant produces glass and metal-base products used for making lighting products such as incandescent and reflector light bulbs. It also produces glass shells for the ornament industry and recycled glass for the fiberglass remelt industry.

A company representative said the traditional market for the plant's products has been declining.

MONACA — Shell Chemicals will pay nearly all of the costs to relocate a water source currently on the site of the company's proposed ethane cracker plant.The company announced an agreement Tuesday with the Center Township Water Authority, which will get a new water intake site and a new treatment plant.Officials say Shell is funding all but $3 million of the $72 million project in Beaver County. The authority will pick up the rest of the tab.Shell could end up using the water facilities if it moves forward with a multibillion-dollar petrochemical facility at the former Horsehead Corp. site in Potter Township.Shell is spending $80 million to remediate the area surrounding the site in preparation for the potential plant.

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Jerry Brown dramatically increased California's climate-change goals, committing the state to use renewable energy for half its electricity and make existing buildings twice as energy-efficient in just 15 years.Brown tried for an even stronger measure that also would have enforced a 50 percent drop in petroleum use by 2030, but was defeated by oil interests. He called that a short-term setback, and insisted that the world needs to wean itself off fossil fuels as quickly as possible.“What has been the source of our prosperity now becomes the source of our ultimate destruction, if we don't get off it. And that is so difficult,” Brown said at a signing ceremony Wednesday at the hilltop Griffith Observatory, overlooking the haze of downtown Los Angeles.California already has some of the world's toughest air quality standards, and set a mandate in 2006 to derive a third of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar, wind and geothermal by 2020. State regulators say they already hit 25 percent last year, as huge solar farms sprouted in the desert and towering windmills went up along mountain passes.