Dollar General and Dollar Store have expanded their footprint due to higher grocery prices. But U.S. town and city officials are looking to curb their growth, citing their effects on local economies like crime, food desert, and small business decline.
Southeast Louisiana residents at a hearing this week were universally opposed to chemical giant Air Products' plan to capture and inject carbon dioxide under Lake Maurepas.
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Some argue the technology would help bring jobs and tax revenue to the state while removing greenhouse gas out of the air. But others fear the projects would disturb natural environments or become safety risks.