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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a round table discussion at the VivaTech fair dedicated to innovation and startups in Paris, Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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The Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont., is just one mine in the Powder River Basin, the most productive coal-producing region in the U.S.
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Massachusetts-based Ascend Elements is finalizing upgrades to its Covington, Georgia, facility that will allow it to produce up to 3,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate per year.
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Exterior of the Packard Plant on Detroit's east side, Thursday, June 30, 2022. The factory built in the early 1900s turned out high-end cars into the 1950s. It was considered one of the city's automotive jewels, but now is among the nation's most notorious examples of urban blight. Parts of the 3.5 million-square-foot, 40-acre Packard plant complex will be demolished by the year's end.
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This photo shows the former Packard Motor Car Company campus, May 16, 2017 in Detroit. A judge has deemed the deteriorating Packard plant on Detroit's east side a public nuisance and ordered it's Peruvian owner to tear the former auto factory down. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Brian Sullivan wrote in a March 31,2022, order that Fernando Palazuelo and his Arte Express Detroit must remove all rubbish and debris from the sprawling site that covers several city blocks and demolish all buildings and structures on the property.
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President Joe Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022.
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The Flint Water Plant tower is shown in Flint, Mich., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Some Flint residents impacted by months of lead-tainted water are looking past expected charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in his administration to healing physical and emotional damages left by the crisis.
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2 Ex-Health Officials Charged with Manslaughter in Flint
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This Dec. 20, 2019 file photo provided by Michigan Department of Transportation shows toxic chemical substances leaking along Interstate 696 in Madison Heights, Mich.
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Tina Wheeler, manager of Dan and Vi's pizza poses for a photo Thursday in Detroit. Dan and Vi’s pizza deli, one of the few eateries near the Detroit-Hamtramck General Motors plant, says sales have been down, though Wednesday’s noontime crowd snaked around the small shop nearly to the door.
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In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Fiat Chrysler can move forward with plans to build a new, $1.6 million assembly plant on Detroit's Eastside and invest $900 million to retool and modernize another. The Detroit City Council on Tuesday approved land deals and community benefits agreements tied to the project. They include a four-week exclusive window Detroit residents will have to apply for jobs at the facilities once laid-off workers and temporary employees are considered. Fiat Chrysler expects to add 4,950 new jobs.
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New Detroit Auto Plant Lands Incentives
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In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. Land deals that will allow Fiat Chrysler to build a new assembly plant in Detroit are expected to cost the city and state about $107 million. Mayor Mike Duggan released details Friday of agreements reached for nearly 215 acres on the city's east side that the automaker wants as part of a $1.6 billion investment.
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Detroit Reaches Land Deals for Plant
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In this Feb. 26, 2019 file photo, Jeep vehicles are parked outside the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. When Fiat Chrysler began considering where to build its next assembly plant, the automaker didn't have far to look for land. A short walk from its Jefferson North plant on Detroit's east side is 200 acres of land the company is eyeing as part of its $1.6 billion investment to convert an engine complex into a new facility. Decades of residential flight, disinvestment and abandonment have left the Motor City with stretches of available real estate which are appealing to some developers.
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