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Workers open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway to divert rising water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, upriver from New Orleans, in Norco, La., May 10, 2019. Several local governments and business groups on the Mississippi Gulf Coast filed a lawsuit Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' opening of the spillway in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Lawsuit seeks to protect dolphins if flood-control spillway is used near New Orleans
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Wed,01/24/24-3:28PM , 329 Reads
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Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves answers a reporter's question on his announcement of a tech company expected to invest $10 billion to build two data processing centers that will create 1,000 jobs in central Mississippi, during a Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi governor pushes state incentives to finalize deal for 2 data processing centers
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Wed,01/24/24-11:29AM , 207 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A tech company will invest $10 billion to build two data processing centers that will create 1,000 jobs in central Mississippi, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday.
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Lawmakers approve incentives for electric vehicle battery plant
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Fri,01/19/24-2:00AM , 481 Reads
JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers on Thursday gave broad, bipartisan approval to state incentives for a factory that will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles — a project that promises 2,000 jobs with an average salary of about $66,000.
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Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, center, stands with House Speaker Jason White, R-West, left, and Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, as well as the legislators behind him, as he praises the passing of a state incentives package for a Mississippi factory that will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles — a project that promises 2,000 jobs, following a special session of the Mississippi Legislature, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi legislators approve incentives for a factory that would make EV batteries
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Thu,01/18/24-1:39PM , 314 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers on Thursday gave broad, bipartisan approval to state incentives for a factory that will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles — a project that promises 2,000 jobs with an average salary of about $66,000.
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