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May 8, 2024
The United Auto Workers union strike would be the first time all three major Detroit automakers were on strike at the same time. | Photo by Timothy D. Easley/AP The United Auto Workers union intends to go on strike at three factories located in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri starting at midnight on Thursday, unless a
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On August 24, a group of workers belonging to United Auto Workers Local 863 gathered for a demonstration in Louisville, Kentucky. They were joined by Timothy D. Easley, who captured the event in a photo for the Associated Press. By Scott Waldman 09/14/2023 11:17 AM EDT The Anderson Economic Group, a consulting company located in
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The 150,000-member United Auto Workers union has been consistently voicing their disapproval of President Joe Biden’s approach to electric vehicle subsidies. This has been a prevalent topic as the union gears up for a potential strike against leading American automakers later this week. President Joe Biden’s promise to prioritize electric vehicles in his efforts towards
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The United States is projected to reach or surpass the previous year’s record of 164 significant cyber and physical attacks on the power grid. | Photo by Karl B DeBlaker/AP The head of Maryland’s main utility regulatory agency was reading the news on a morning in February when he was taken aback by a headline:
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The construction of a border wall resulted in significant harm and devastation to cultural sites belonging to Native communities. This included damaging sections of Monument Hill in Arizona and completely destroying a burial site near a sacred spring in the Sonoran Desert, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). a report by
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In the summer of 2021, the lake reached its lowest level ever, leading to increased focus from Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Associated Press 09/06/2023 08:01 PM EDT A group of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, stating that Utah officials are responsible for the near collapse of the Great Salt
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In this photo with no specified date, a plane can be seen flying above caribou in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge located in northeast Alaska. The photo was taken by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and shared by AP Photo. By Ben Lefebvre 09/06/2023 02:30 PM EDT Updated: 09/06/2023 05:24
READ MORELast month, Bobbie Boyd was seen in Fayetteville, Arkansas sitting in her apartment with her grandson, 3-year-old DeAngelo Boyd. The apartment only had one air conditioning unit. According to an analysis by E&E News, over 30 million low-income households who qualify for federal aid to help with air conditioning expenses have not received any funds
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On January 25, 2022, individuals were seen walking on a flooded road in Chikwawa, Malawi, as captured in a photo by AP. By Associated Press 09/03/2023 06:41 AM EDT In Nairobi, Kenya, many people rely on daily weather forecasts without thinking twice. However, in Africa where there are 1.3 billion people living, most do not
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Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth for POLITICO, power lines by Andrew Martin from Pixabay, thermometer by Lindsey White from Pixabay, sun flare by PublicDomainPictures.net. By Jason Plautz 09/02/2023 07:00 AM EDT The regulators in charge of the American power system expressed concern about the state of the electricity grid as summer approached, cautioning that high temperatures
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