Apr. 21—CATSKILL — New York's push to develop more green energy is changing the upstate landscape, with solar farms popping up in what used to be pastures, fallow cropland and industrial sites across the region. In addition to these installations, another type of development is emerging. Rather than solar panels, energy developers are starting to put up battery energy storage systems, or ESS ...
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LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska Board of Regents on Friday took another small step in the planning process for a possible $450 million renovation of Memorial Stadium, but made clear the move does not represent any final go-ahead for the project. The regents' measured approach to the overhaul of the home of Husker football comes in the wake of the departure of the original driving force ...
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A contractor who worked inside Intel’s D1X factory in Hillsboro sued the company last week, alleging he was injured by exposure to toxic chemicals in April 2022. Ivan Higgs was working for Charter Construction, which contracted with Intel for welding and other services inside D1X, Intel’s main research factory. The lawsuit alleges Higgs was exposed to chemicals used to service and clean ...
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The long-known look of Falcon Stadium is officially gone. Local media toured the under-construction home of Air Force football on Thursday morning, catching the first glimpse of its transformed appearance and receiving a briefing on some of the changes that the $90-million project will bring. "We're getting to the point where it's a lot of fun to walk people through here, show off the progress ...
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Apr. 22—What has been called a "transformational" development at Ohio 122 and Union Road in Middletown's East End continues to move forward with the approval of funding for infrastructure work. Council last week passed an ordinance providing for the issuance of bond anticipation notes with the maximum principal of $14 million to pay the cost of engineering and multiple infrastructure ...
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Frisco’s Planning & Zoning Commission will review the site plan for a project once zoned to hold up to 4,000 apartments, offices and retail across millions of square feet of development. Dallas-based Zarky Development LLC is behind the project located at the southwest corner of Dallas Parkway and Main Street in the Denton County section of the city. The city approved a development agreement ...
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The east bank regional levee authority has formally asked the Army Corps of Engineers to prevent contractors from rebuilding pumps at the 17th Street Canal lakefront pumping station during the 2024 hurricane season, which begins June 1. According to a Corps spokesperson, PCCP JV, the contractor that built the three combination surge barrier-pumping stations at the ends of the 17th Street, ...
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Ninety miles west of Chicago, the corn and soybean fields stretch to the sky, and dreams of the clean energy future dangle — just out of reach. To the east of Route 52, there’s the first phase of the 9,500-acre Steward Creek solar farm, in the works since 2019. To the west, there’s South Dixon Solar, which once hoped to begin construction on 3,800 acres in 2022. Both projects have been ...
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Minnesota environmental engineers have proposed digging 27 wells to contain a plume of toxic PFAS chemicals threatening the water supplies of fast-growing east metro communities. The system created by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and its consultant AECOM would consist of 18 wells to suck up tainted water; pumps and pipelines to send it to a treatment station; and nine wells to inject ...
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Apr. 19—The Biden administration on Friday moved to block a proposed 200-mile road to valuable mineral deposits in Alaska and said it would increase protections to halt oil and gas development in much of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. President Joe Biden said in a statement that Alaska's "natural wonders" support subsistence hunting and fishing for Alaska Native communities and should ...
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