Recovering from a disaster on the scale of the 2019 floods takes time, even decades. Five years after the March 2019 flood, The World-Herald revisited some of the places affected to see how far they've come. Omaha-area levees in better shape after millions in fixes Most of the Omaha metro area did well during the floods and would do so again in a repeat of 2019, said John Winkler, general ...
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Christopher Hodgkins, the guy who helped build the award-winning Port of Miami tunnel, sat back and watched while Fort Lauderdale’s mayor championed a Tesla tunnel to the beach — an idea the mayor now admits was a pipe dream. Hodgkins says he knew right away that plan wouldn’t work, but he kept quiet. Then he noticed headlines about Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and his fierce ...
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Mar. 10—The coho salmon has already conquered the Ballard Locks fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405. It faces a gantlet of pipes and concrete tunnels ahead, the legacy of human development over once-pristine habitat. Next up is a nearly 300-foot pipe beneath an indoor shooting range and a parking lot. If the ...
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Mar. 8—STATE CAPITOL — State Sen. Neil Breslin and Assemblyman David Weprin are pushing for passage of a bill that would make staging a construction site accident a class E felony, in order to combat what they call a growing trend of insurance fraud. Speaking at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Breslin, D-Albany, said both individuals and criminal organizations are increasingly using staged ...
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Mar. 8—EAST HARTFORD — The planned redevelopment project on the Founders Plaza property is still coming, but it's going to come in phases instead of one big chunk. And that's OK with Mayor Connor Martin. "I'm not concerned at at all. We're taking a grand plan and making it a reality, but we're doing it in manageable chunks," Martin said Wednesday. "They're being real and I appreciate that." ...
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ATLANTA (AP) — The CEO of Rivian Automotive announced Thursday that the electric truck maker is pausing construction of its $5 billion manufacturing plant in Georgia to speed production and save money. California-based Rivian had planned to start building its new R2 midsize SUVs at the Georgia site east of Atlanta. State and local governments offered an incentive package as large as $1.5 ...
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BOSTON — In a shot across the bow to communities along the MBTA system, Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit against a South Shore town where voters rejected a plan requiring them to develop multifamily housing near the public transit. The lawsuit asks the state Supreme Judicial Court judge to force the town of Milton to comply with the so-called MBTA Communities Act that ...
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Mar. 7—A state legislative committee is considering a bill that calls for studying the feasibility of adding a new nuclear reactor at the Millstone Station power plant in Waterford. State Sen. Norman Needleman, co-chairman of the Energy and Technology Committee, said the legislation was introduced by state Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport. Steinberg was not available for comment Wednesday ...
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Power lines ignited massive wildfires across the Texas Panhandle that killed at least two people, destroyed homes and livestock, and left a charred landscape, officials said Thursday, including the largest blaze in state history. The Texas A&M Forest Service said its investigators concluded that power lines ignited both the historic Smokehouse Creek fire, which has burned nearly 1,700 square ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution faced a barrage of legal challenges Wednesday, as 25 Republican-led states and a host of business groups filed lawsuits seeking to block the rule in court. Twenty-four states, led by attorneys general from Kentucky and West Virginia, filed a joint challenge stating that new Environmental ...
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