Utilities News
Utilities covers everything from water to sewage services and natural gas. The work done here isn’t always pretty, but it is worth staying up to date with this vital sector.
List of Utilities News
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Kentucky, Ohio get $1.6B to fix overloaded bridge, add span
Kentucky and Ohio will get more than $1.6 billion in federal grants to help build a new Ohio River bridge near Cincinnati
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Feds sue drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen over opioid sales
The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a major drug wholesaler contributed to the deadly toll from opioids by turning a blind eye to warning...
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Pipeline section in Kansas with oil spill is back in service
A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of...
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NY opens its first legal recreational marijuana dispensary
The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York is ringing up its first sales, opening up what is expected to be one of the...
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Airline breakdown upends holiday leave for service members
Active-duty military personnel were caught in limbo this week as thousands of Southwest Airlines travelers got stranded across the U.S. by canceled...
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Mortgage rates' rise has led to wide gap with US bond yields
Economists are baffled by a wider-than-usual divergence between long-term mortgage rates and the yield on the benchmark U.S. government bond that...
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Iran replaces central bank governor amid currency crash
Iran has appointed a new head of its central bank after the country's currency crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar amid mass...
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Average mortgage rates rise after 6 weeks of declines
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week after falling for six straight weeks, adding to the challenges potential homebuyers face...
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Cyprus seeks stronger ties with India on defense, migration
Cyprus is seeking to strengthen ties with India through agreements aimed at tighter military cooperation, expanding the use of solar energy and...
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Dubai approves extradition of financier accused of tax fraud
A court in Dubai has approved the extradition to Denmark of a British financier accused of orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax scheme
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Brazil's Lula picks Amazon defender for environment minister
Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of...
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US Census Bureau redefines meaning of 'urban' America
Almost 1,000 towns, hamlets and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas as the U.S. Census Bureau released a new list of places...
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Southwest cuts 2,300 flights, schedule in sustained chaos
Southwest Airlines is still trying to extract itself from sustained scheduling chaos and cancelled another 2,350 flights after a winter storm...
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Applications for US unemployment aid rose slightly last week
The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose modestly last week, the latest sign that the labor market remains strong despite the...
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Asian shares extend losses after Wall Street decline
Shares have fallen in Asia after benchmarks skidded more than 1% on Wall Street
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Lack of info on China's COVID outbreak stirs global concerns
Moves by the U.S., Japan and others to mandate COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could...