sustainability

Arkansas

Hybar Building Steel Rebar Mill In Arkansas

A newly formed company, Hybar LLC, is building a technologically advanced, environmentally sustainable scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill project on a 1,300-acre site in northeast Arkansas. “The Hybar project was a team effort involving state, regional and local government leadership, our management team, and many others to get to today’s announcement,” said Dave Stickler, […]

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City Council

I need drama — let’s make the City Council soapy | Dec. 28, 2022-Jan. 3, 2023 | #citycouncil

Anitra “Who Always Said Rice Was Not a Vegetable” Freeman is excited about her purchase of a bag of mixed wild rice that she called — I heard her say it — “six different kinds of vegetables.” With my own ears. She claims she said “plants.” I could go on about how everything in the world […]

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Mayor

New Orleans’ new climate plan revises city’s goals | Environment

Mayor LaToya Cantrell this week announced a new climate action plan for the city of New Orleans that pushes back a deadline to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by five years, calling for meeting that goal in 2035 rather than the previous goal of 2030. The document, unveiled by Cantrell Tuesday, says that by […]

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Mayor

Tennessee Valley Authority Project Draws Pushback From NES, Mayor | Pith in the Wind

Advocacy groups, Nashville Mayor John Cooper and the city’s public utility, Nashville Electric Service, have all issued formal statements opposing TVA’s proposed expansion of fossil fuels in Middle Tennessee. Local officials joined Congress, which censured the agency in January, in criticizing TVA for clinging to fossil fuels. Even though TVA is a federal agency, its […]

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