** President Joe Biden has voiced his opposition to Nippon Steel buying U.S. Steel, but the federal government appears to be in no hurry to block the deal. White House officials earlier this month did not deny that the president would formally block the acquisition. But the necessary report from the government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the …
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** They’re ugly as sin, but new U.S. postal delivery trucks are rolling into service. Once fully deployed, they’ll represent one of the most visible signs of the agency’s 10-year, $40 billion transformation led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who’s also renovating aging facilities, overhauling the processing and transportation network, and instituting other changes. ** Boeing waited …
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** The Biden administration is approving a major electric power transmission project as well as a solar project in Nevada, it announced Monday. The Greenlink West Transmission Project will create a system of new power lines from North Las Vegas to Reno. When completed, the project could transmit enough energy for 4.8 million homes. ** U.S. House representatives from …
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** From heat protections for workers to restrictions on toxic chemicals, the Biden administration is set to leave several of the significant environmental and health protections it has floated unfinished. The fate of many of these regulations likely depends on the outcome of November’s election, as a Harris administration would probably continue them, while a Trump …
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** Boeing said it has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing more than 32,000 workers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, in a deal that could help avert a possible crippling strike as early as Sept. 13. ** Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials expanded a beach closure this week as a precautionary measure against …
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**The union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff called on the agency to allow temporary remote work after Legionella bacteria was found at multiple EPA facilities around the country. ** The University of California at Davis and Innovative Genomics Institute are working to engineer the stomachs of cattle so they don’t produce the potent planet-warming …
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** A company that pledged to remove used wind turbine blades from a vacant Minnesota property to have them recycled in Ohio abruptly went out of business, leaving state regulators to decide whether to intervene. ** A North Dakota labor union accuses a wind energy developer of hiring out-of-state workers to build a project after promising to use …
Government to fund billions for rural electric cooperatives
A rural electric cooperative in Wisconsin is set to receive $573 million in government funding as part of the Biden administration’s latest massive clean energy effort. The administration annoounced it will spend $7.3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act to finance the projects for rural electric cooperatives across the nation where 42 million Americans …
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** Despite slowing U.S. electric vehicle sales, Hyundai on Tuesday rolled out the 2025 versions of its Ioniq 5 electric SUV with improved battery range and charging aimed at broadening the appeal of vehicles to be built at a massive new Georgia factory. ** Arizona’s attorney general joins environmentalists in a lawsuit challenging state regulators’ …
Northern Arkansas residents fight planned wind farm in Ozarks
Residents in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas have organized to fight the state’s first planned wind farm, one that would be spread out over 14 square miles. The fight is underway in Carroll County, located in northern Arkansas along the state line and home to the tourist city of Eureka Springs. The developer wants …