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Minnesota power plant on tap for conversion (10:23 a.m. 2/16/10)

Published: February 16, 2010
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By Bob Geiger Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Xcel Energy’s Black Dog Plant is expected to become an all-natural, gas-powered facility, significantly cutting emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon in the Minnesota River Valley. Part of the Burnsville plant, originally designed in the 1950s to burn coal, was converted in 2002 to [...]

Braving the elements

Published: May 1, 2009
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Caley Clinton Special to The Daily Reporter Through the scrape of plows in winter and the sizzle of sun in summer, Wisconsin’s roads take a beating. But it’s the change in seasons, more than the weather, that leaves roads worse for wear. The hot-to-cold fluctuations necessitate repairs to cracked pavement, sinking manhole covers and rusting [...]