The developer planning a 1,300-mile network of carbon dioxide pipelines through the farm belt said Friday it was scrapping the project, citing the “unpredictable nature of regulatory and governmental processes” in two of the five states it would cross. The decision by Omaha, Neb.-based Navigator CO2 Ventures. it comes after South Dakota regulators decided to deny a permit for the 112-mile Heartland Greenway project in the state's western tip. “As good stewards of capital and responsible stewards of people, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the Heartland Greenway project,” said Navigator CEO Matt Vining. “We are disappointed that…
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Updated at 5 p.mSeven Midwestern governors, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walsh, announced Thursday that they will coordinate on opening their states' economies after similar deals were struck in the Northeast and West Coast.The latest deal includes Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky.”We look forward to working with experts and taking a data-driven and data-driven approach to reopening our economy in a way that protects families from the spread of COVID-19,” the governors said. “Our No. 1 priority when analyzing when (it is) best to reopen our economy is the health and safety of our citizens.”Midwestern alliance joins deals…
MIDWEST CITY — Two elementary schools in Midwest City-Del City Public Schools will close at the end of this school year.The Mid-Del Board of Education on Monday approved the closure of Highland Park and Steed, two schools that even before the pandemic suffered declining enrollment, underutilized space and millions of dollars worth of backlogged maintenance.Four board members voted in favor of the measure while one, Silvya Kirk, abstained. Some of the few dozen families in attendance at Carl Albert High School were visibly emotional after the board approved the closure.Mid-Del seventh-grader Iana Shaffer was in tears. She and her younger…
John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/AP A bicyclist rides past a screen broadcasting a weather report at Daley Plaza in Chicago in August. CNN — Large parts of the world, including China and the Midwestern United States, are on track to become too hot for humans to cope with, as accelerating global temperatures expose billions to heat and humidity so extreme that their bodies will not be able to now cope, according to a new study. The researchers used temperature and humidity data together with climate models to analyze human exposure potentially lethal heat As the world warms, looking at a range…
An electric Jeep Wrangler is on display on the showroom floor at the Dan O'Brien Auto Group dealership, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Methuen, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) By Keith Laing and Gabrielle Coppola | Bloomberg Stellantis NV is scrapping a shift at a Jeep plant in Detroit and cutting jobs at the Jeep assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, a move the company blamed on stricter emissions standards adopted by California and more than a dozen other states in 2019. Stellantis announced Thursday that it will temporarily cut a shift at its Mack Avenue plant in Detroit, which builds two-…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Chipmaker Intel said Friday it will invest $20 billion to build a new factory in Ohio, an effort to help ease a global shortage of chips that power everything from phones to cars to home appliances. , while simultaneously signaling the giant company's commitment to manufacturing critical technology products in the USThe move could also create a new tech hub in central Ohio as related businesses that support chip manufacturing open new facilities and bring expertise to the region. Intel said two planned factories, or fabs, would support its own line of processors, as well as…
The musical comedy “Beetlejuice” is gearing up for a widespread Midwest run, bringing its iconic green and purple aesthetic to Wisconsin, Ohio and Kentucky through 2024. The series – based on the Tim Burton film “Beetlejuice” – follows Lydia Deetz, a teenager whose life is turned upside down when she meets a dead couple “and a demon with stripes”. We caught up with the show's leading actor, Justin Collette, who plays the titular character, Beetlejuice. What You Should Know The musical comedy 'Beetlejuice' is based on the Tim Burton film We caught up with the show's leading actor, Justin Collette,…
Tom Ackerman has been a fixture at KMOX for a quarter of a century, rising from a key behind-the-scenes position to become the station's sports director and a key member of the morning drive program, as well as host of legacy show “Sports on a Sunday Morning.”Through it all, he has covered play-by-play, locally and nationally, on radio and television. He has even audio streamed some Cardinals spring training games in recent seasons on the team's website.But Ackerman is about to take another big step, accomplishing a career goal of doing play-by-play of the Cardinals' regular season games. He will…
The Midwest is experiencing rising temperatures this week as heat waves roll in more often and deadly across the US Experts who study the link between climate change and health say that extreme heat is not just an inconvenience. “The biggest challenge in this country is making sure people know that extreme heat is a matter of life and death,” he said. Vijay Limayeepidemiologist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Extreme heat killed more people in 2022 than any other severe weather event such as hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. Looking at the 10-year and 30-year averages of such deaths, the…
The price of farmland in Minnesota rises and the number of landowners is declining, adding barriers to entry for new and emerging farmers. The U.S. lost 2,000 acres of farm and rangeland per day between 2001 and 2016, according to research by the American Farmland Trust. This week, advocates, agricultural leaders and policymakers from across the Midwest participated a summittrying to ensure fair access to this farmland is possible. Jan Joannides, executive director and co-founder of the non-profit organization Renewing the countryside, told MPR News that aging farmers and land owned by people who don't manage it contribute to the…