The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139 is picketing the Minnesota contractor SJ Louis work on a closely watched project to build a water
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Workers on a Minn. wind turbine. Photo credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/ZUMA Press/Newscom
Xcel Energy Inc. employees demonstrate how to assemble a wind turbine outside the company s Minnesota headquarters in this 2017 photo. Unions are shaping up as an important player in President Biden s campaign for clean energy. Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Zuma Press/Newscom
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One evening in September 2018, Lucas Franco parked on the shoulder of a dirt road in the Minnesota cornfields. He examined the passing cars, especially their license plates.
The trucks and SUVs were rolling off the construction site of a wind farm called Stoneray. Upon spying each plate, Franco noted its origin state and entered it into a spreadsheet on his laptop. Utah, Florida, South Carolina, Texas.
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Photo by Bruce Rushton When the city sued two years ago to force fixes to this house, it discovered that the owner had died in 1964. Eyesores can last years in Springfield. Consider 2809 Poplar Avenue. In lieu of shingles, a sheet of plastic is nailed to part of the roof. A green notice posted by city inspectors who declared the building unsafe has faded from the sun. Roxana Talley, who has lived next door for two decades, said that the last resident moved a couple years ago after spending the last year or so living in a shed in the backyard because the house wasn t habitable. When he turned 62, Talley says, he moved into a high-rise apartment in another part of town.