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Jan. 20—Montgomery County will embark on a 2-year, $65 million consolidation and construction project to ensure water from county sewers continues to be treated so it can be safely discharged back into rivers. Three years in the making, the Sewer Modernization and Replacement Treatment (SMART) project is "an enormous one," according to Matt Hilliard, Montgomery County's Director of ...
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is finding new markets for its hydrogen fuel cell systems, announcing that it will work with another company to build mobile electricity generators, electric vehicle charging stations and power generators for military camps. The emissions-free generators will be designed to power large commercial buildings in the event of a power outage, but the company says it's ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday in Madison County. The action on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, claims that Amazon failed to warn employees of dangerous weather or provide safe shelter before a tornado slammed the Edwardsville facility ...
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Jan. 14—Enbridge Energy on Friday will continue to push for its controversial tunnel project to relocate Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac before the Michigan Public Service Commission during a virtual hearing. The company wants to build a tunnel that would hold a new segment of the dual pipeline and protect it from the currents of the straits and anchor strikes. Environmentalists have ...
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A year after unprecedented charges against a former Michigan governor, the Flint water prosecution of Rick Snyder and eight others is moving slowly, bogged down by disputes over millions of documents and even whether some cases were filed in the proper court. Snyder, a Republican, is charged with willful neglect of duty arising from decisions to switch Flint’s water supply ...
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Yaroslav Zhuk was working on a luxury rental building, a project of Noah Properties, when he was injured in a fall in December 2020. He died weeks later. Faith and union leaders called for safer working conditions at a Northwest Side development where a bricklayer was fatally injured last year. Yaroslav Zhuk fell while working on a luxury rental development being constructed by Noah Properties ...
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Dec. 23—The state of Michigan on Wednesday approved requests by the state's two largest electric utilities to provide special rates for high-volume industrial customers in an effort to help Michigan compete for advanced manufacturing plants, including for electric vehicles and their components. The Michigan Public Service Commission also approved a hike in residential electricity rates for ...
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group has qualified for nearly $30 million in Wisconsin tax credits, marking the first time the electronics giant has secured state aid since breaking ground on its facility in the state in 2018. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation on Wednesday verified that Foxconn had met job creation and investment benchmarks to qualify, based on documents ...
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Designs for a new 83-unit apartment building with affordable housing near Detroit's Masonic Temple and Little Caesars Arena were publicly unveiled Tuesday night. The development, called 3rd & Charlotte, would be a three-story, L-shaped building and is joint project between wealthy real estate developer Stephen Ross' Related Cos. and the Detroit-based development firm The Platform. During a ...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The company working to build a mine in southeast Nebraska to extract a rare element used to make steel lighter and stronger said Tuesday that it may also be able to produce some of the key ingredients needed to make the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and other high-tech products. NioCorp Developments released a new report Tuesday that shows those rare earth ...
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