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Dec. 9—Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Thursday that would have prevented local governments from banning natural gas in new construction and limited public information about drinking water. No local governments in North Carolina have moved to ban natural gas from new construction, but some governments in California and the Northeast have. That led to a nationwide push by the natural gas industry ...Read More
CHRISTIANSBURG - The town is denying many of the allegations made in a lawsuit that Roanoke-based Allegheny Construction Co. Inc. filed over a project that sought to improve traffic flow in the area around the intersection of North Franklin and Cambria streets. Christiansburg filed a response this past week to the lawsuit from Allegheny, which is seeking $700,721 from the town. Allegheny ...Read More
Dec. 1—Gainesville, already a regional hub for medical care, will grow that economic driver even more with plans by HCA Healthcare to build a 90-bed acute care hospital in Alachua County. Increased growth of The Villages, the multi-county retirement mecca south of Ocala, also has prompted HCA to propose a 60-bed acute care hospital there, the company announced Tuesday in a news release. HCA ...Read More
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Regulators have given approval to a plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to bury toxin-laden coal ash in southeast Memphis. The federal utility received final approval from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation last week, a spokeswoman for the state agency told The Commercial Appeal on Tuesday. TVA plans to have a contractor remove tons of coal ash ...Read More
Shuttered since construction began in 2018, the project to modernize the B Concourse of the Memphis International Airport is looking for a reopening prior to the end of this year. Original timelines had the project concluding during fall 2021, but recent supply chain shortages have pushed the goal back to winter – and potentially even later than that, according to the airport's director of ...Read More
STUART, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed work on a $339 million Everglades restoration project aimed at cleansing water runoff before it flows into a troubled Florida river. Corps and local officials held a ceremony Friday for the 12,000-acre (4,800-hectare) project in Martin County known officially as the C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area. It's a key part ...Read More
BMW continues to invest in its South Carolina plant, with Thursday’s announcement that the auto manufacturing company will spend another $100 million to expand the operation. The newest investment is to enhance the company’s logistics operations with a new building being developed across Interstate 85 from the Greer plant, and two new bridges, BMW officials said. The new facilities, expected ...Read More
In the spring of 2016, residents of Champlain Towers South flooded complaint hotlines to fume about construction activity at the neighboring Eighty Seven Park project that had jostled their walls, closed their pool and coated their balconies in dust. As the complaints were spiking in mid-March, a team of consultants working for the developers of the luxury 18-story condo next door were just ...Read More
Oct. 29—In 2017, Georgia Power said the new Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle would come online in November 2021. That timeline has been pushed back several times since — and as October draws to a close, Georgia Power has pushed the completion date back for the second time in three months. Now Unit 3 is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2022 and Unit 4 is expected to be online in the ...Read More