Feds assess sites for renewable energy potential
Determining the potential of former landfills, brownfields and Superfund sites around the country to host solar panels and other renewable energy projects is the focus of a new assessment federal...
View ArticleEntergy to spin off transmission business to ITC
Utility holding company Entergy Corp. plans to spin off its electric transmission business and merge it into ITC Holdings Corp., which operates power transmission lines in the Midwest. Entergy, based...
View ArticleCrop insurance rates skyrocket after summer floods
Midwestern farmers who saw their land swamped by summer flooding may be socked again with steep increases in their crop insurance premiums, the expensive result of the failure to fix broken levees...
View ArticleMississippi included in Michael Foods egg recall list
MINNETONKA, Minn. — A Minnesota food company is widening its recall of hard-cooked eggs because of a potential for listeria contamination. Michael Foods, of Minnetonka, is recalling eggs in brine sold...
View ArticleWILLOUGHBY: C Spire’s Hankins adapts style to business
Leadership theories tend to come and go like fads. However, one of the most enduring leadership concepts has been situational leadership. The Situational Leadership Theory was created in 1969 by Dr....
View ArticleGlobal warming? Half of all U.S. counties now considered disaster areas...
ST. LOUIS — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government’s list of natural disaster areas as the nation’s agriculture chief unveiled new help for...
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Cal-Maine enters joint venture to build cage-free facility
BY JACK WEATHERLY Cal-Maine Foods has found more room to maneuver, you might say, in what it calls the “uncertain regulatory framework” in the egg industry. The Jackson-based firm, the largest...
View ArticleMississippi in multi-state probe of VW’s bogus emissions tests
By TED CARTER Mississippi has joined more than two dozen other states in investigating whether German car manufacturer Volkswagen used deceptive trade practices to convince consumers that their cars...
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