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September 7 – A new natural gas pipeline exploded near Big Rapids, Michigan. Two barns were destroyed by the ensuing fire, which was seen for 50 miles. [10] September 20. A brand new natural gas transmission pipeline exploded, while initial pressure was building up, near Wadley, Texas. About 300 yards of the pipe were ripped out of the ground ...
The local is new, by trades-union standards, having been formed in 2011 via a merger of three independent locals – Local 106 of Albany, New York, Local 545 of Syracuse, New York, and Local 832 of Rochester, New York. [26] Local 158, now comprising three united but semi-autonomous districts is led by Business Manager Jonathan Lanse, and based ...
In 1948, Lee Pressman of New York and Joseph Forer of Washington, DC, represented Charles A. Doyle of the Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Union along with Gerhard Eisler (public thought to be the top Soviet spy in America); Irving Potash, vice president of the Fur and Leather Workers Union; Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary of the National Maritime ...
This is a moment for New York leaders to show which side they are on: that of the polluting fossil fuel industry, or that of humanity and our planet.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday tossed out several natural gas pipeline safety standards adopted by President Joe Biden's administration following industry criticism about the massive costs on ...
The New York Times celebrated fifty thousand issues on March 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on July 26, 1996. [269] The New York Times has reduced the physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. The New-York Daily Times debuted at 18 inches (460 mm) across.
A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquefied gas from Pennsylvania by tanker truck ...
December 7 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while the Commercial Exchange Association building was being lit up in the evening, a large chandelier in the upper hallway fell, breaking the gas pipe that supplied it. The gas ignited and seconds later the building was on fire. The nearly new $250,000 building was gutted, but everyone escaped. [19]