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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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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RICHMOND - Lawmakers advanced legislation to expand electric vehicle infrastructure throughout the state, which could help meet a looming mandate that sales of new gas-powered vehicles be phased out by 2035. More infrastructure, such as electric chargers, is needed to meet the deadline and growing EV demand. Del. Richard "Rip" Sullivan, D-Fairfax, introduced House Bill 107, which creates the ...
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's First Lady Tammy Murphy, who is running for U.S. Senate, said Tuesday she opposes construction of a gas-fired backup power plant in a minority neighborhood already heavily burdened with pollution. But she did not say whether she has discussed her view with the one person who could stop the project in its tracks — her husband, Gov. Phil Murphy. And questioned by ...
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Feb. 5—A "hard-to-miss" crane recently appeared near the Mount Nittany Medical Center as the health care facility continues construction on its new patient tower. In mid-January the hospital posted on Facebook that the 250-foot tall crane "signals a significant milestone" in the construction process. Construction of the 10-story, $350 million patient tower started this past summer and is ...
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New Jersey's public transit agency said Friday it is scrapping plans for a backup power plant that would have been fueled by natural gas, heartening environmental justice advocates who targeted it and several other power plants in largely minority areas. NJ Transit said it is redirecting $503 million in federal funding that would have been used to build the backup system, called the ...
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Philadelphia’s 30th Street Amtrak Station has officially kicked off a renovation project. Amtrak officials launched this restorative affair together with federal, state, and local representatives this week at the location, signaling the start of what a press release deemed “A new era of passenger rail.” According to the press release as sent out by Amtrak itself, this makeover of William H. ...
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Six winters ago, the first of many trees was felled to make way for a behemoth natural gas pipeline that would snake its way through the mountains of Southwest Virginia. After many starts and stops — which took the Mountain Valley Pipeline through regulatory hearings, courtrooms, Congress and eventually the U.S. Supreme Court — it appears the end is in sight. Mountain Valley "has continued to ...
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Advocates of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's plan to build a new professional sports arena and entertainment district in northern Virginia say the project would be a generational job-creator so lucrative it will pay for itself. Critics, meanwhile, argue the proposal to lure the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac from the nation's ...
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BRISTOL - Another long-term Interstate 81 project is about to begin, and it involves one of this region's busiest sections of road. The Virginia Department of Transportation this week announced that a contractor is preparing to mobilize and start work this month on a $30.7 million project to widen two sections of Interstate 81 in Washington County, from two lanes to three lanes, near the ...
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