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While installing new gas lines in Peru, workers unearthed nearly a dozen pre-Inca mummies buried alongside a variety of artifacts.

As Democratic lawmakers continue pushing on policy to transition Michigan to clean energy sources, members of the state Senate Labor Committee heard testimony Thursday on a bill to ensure workers are …

Recently introduced legislation would establish a trust fund to reimburse energy sector workers for health care costs associated with poor air quality and intense heat.

"It's really tough, but the work has got to get done."

Damage can happen here on the ground. as far as power outages, this just in. over 200,000 power outages in the state of florida right now. that number will likely go up as the hurricane will make its way through and there are over 30,000 utility workers ready to deploy to try to get power restored. national guard is on the ground and fema. full force of the federal government, state and local to assess this damage as the sun has come up here on this particular area right outside of tampa. this i...

Tallahassee. you will give a briefing to the public in about an hour, what is your headline this morning? >> well, this thing is going to hit us wednesday morning, major hurricane, people need to heed instruction from officials. you still have time to make the preparations you need to. you will start seeing the effects of this getting into tuesday night. the state, we have tens of thousands of utility workers staged and ready to go in for rapid power restoration and urban search and rescue ready...

And intaking their needs, there are dozens of cadaver dogs sniffing through the rubble in search of our loved ones. utility workers in orange vests are picking up miles of electrical lines, tangled up between the fissures of asphalt. those sacred monuments and reminders of colonial arms have been reduced to ashes, and the response from the usual government and institutional players have been well meaning but woefully inadequate, so community leaders have immediately filled the gaps with dozens o...

That way. if we spin around, this is what people who work and live in lahaina are having to deal with, a queue, a line to get in that spans right now about a mile and a half behind us. what you need to know is that people have been waiting to get in for more than 14 hours in some cases. as we zoom in, you can see a mix of utility workers, families, parents, college kids, people who are just waiting to see if their home survived the inferno, tuesday night into early wednesday morning. we spoke wi...

MARQUETTE — Michigan’s infrastructure will see upgrades because of funding in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the budget Mond

CARTHAGE, Mo.- City Utility Workers in Carthage, Missouri could be facing a delay in their wage increase due to miscommunication between the City Council and Carthage Water and Electrics Board