WILSON, N.C. (AP) — A company that makes containers and injections for vaccines and other drugs will build a new manufacturing plant in eastern North Carolina, creating 400 jobs by the end of the decade, officials announced on Monday. A U.S.-based subsidiary of German firm SCHOTT Pharma will begin building the production facility in Wilson this year and invest $371 million in the project, the ...
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AUSTIN — For about five hours on Feb. 25, electricity for most of Texas cost nothing. As the sun shone on a banner day of near-perfect sunny, mild and breezy weather across the state, wind and solar produced electricity at an unprecedented rate. At its peak, renewable energy produced nearly three-quarters of Texas electricity that day — setting a record that pushed the real-time price of ...
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DES MOINES — Representatives for Iowa labor unions and the state's construction industry urged lawmakers to hit the brakes on a proposal to lower the tax rates businesses pay to fund benefits for unemployed workers. House Republican lawmakers on Thursday advanced House Study Bill 735 in order to gather more information about its potential impact. Rep. Dave Deyoe, R-Nevada, who chaired the ...
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ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Wes Moore and the state's chief financial officers approved nearly half a billion dollars in extra funds for the Purple Line on Wednesday, even as they condemned the embattled project's mounting delays and escalating costs. Nearly seven years after construction began, transit authorities returned to the Board of Public Works yet again this month, this time seeking an ...
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Mar. 17—A Houston-based developer wants to build a hotel, condominiums and space for shops and restaurants at a prominent intersection in Fredericksburg, adding to the surge of development in cities dotting the fast-growing Hill Country region. But the city's Planning and Zoning Commission is putting a kink in the $176 million plan. "This is not good for the community as a whole," Commissioner ...
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration said on Friday it plans to rebuild two Illinois prisons, including the nearly century-old Stateville Correctional Center just southwest of Chicago, as part of a nearly $1 billion project scheduled to be completed over the next three to five years. The administration said it anticipates Stateville, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago in Crest ...
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A Woodbury company says it paid $735,000 to a prominent Twin Cities construction firm only to find out later that the money was never received because of an alleged cybercrime. The payment was supposed to cover construction expenses for a new office and warehouse in South St. Paul. Instead, the project's developer, Beck Properties Minnesota, has been hit with more than $530,000 in liens by ...
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Mar. 15—A record $1.71 billion annual spending plan for coastal restoration and hurricane protection was unanimously approved for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority board of directors. The plan includes more than $480 million for the controversial Mid-Barataria and Mid-Breton sediment diversions. A series of public hearings had already been held on ...
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Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy giant Sempra, announced Thursday it is moving forward on the third phase of a large wind energy complex in Baja California. Some 64 turbines will be erected at the Cimarron wind project, with capacity to generate about 320 megawatts of power under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Silicon Valley Power to supply ...
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In the Arizona desert, a Danish company is building a massive solar farm that includes batteries that charge when the sun is shining and supply energy back to the electric grid when it's not. Combining batteries with green energy is a fast-growing climate solution. “Solar farms only produce when the sun shines, and the turbines only produce when the wind blows,” said Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper. ...
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