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☆ Hot Healthcare Hiring Bolsters Cooling U.S. Labor Market
  + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Gwynn Guilford | Gabriel T. Rubin | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Healthcare providers accounted for 30% of U.S. job gains in the six months through October. Photo: Lauren Petracca for The Wall Street JournalA healthcare hiring boom is helping offset weaker job growth in other areas of the softening U.S. economy, boosting its chances of skirting a recession. The industry could serve as a strong job generator for years to come as an aging population and Covid-19 fuel widespread worker shortages and greater needs for healthcare services.
Persons: Lauren Petracca Organizations: Wall
☆ Clean-Energy Startups Expected a Gusher of Government Money. They Are Still Waiting.
  + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Amrith Ramkumar | Scott Patterson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Battery-recycling startup Li-Cycle is pausing construction on a large facility in Rochester, N.Y., because of surging costs. Photo: Lauren Petracca for The Wall Street JournalA pile of government cash from last year’s climate law was supposed to fuel a wave of clean-energy startups. Instead, many are running out of money before the funding comes through. Higher interest rates and rising costs have hurt the companies in what are often capital-intensive industries. Washington’s grinding bureaucracy has been slow to dole out the cash from the climate-focused Inflation Reduction Act.
Persons: Lauren Petracca Organizations: Wall Locations: Rochester , N.Y
☆ Why a Landfill as Tall as the Statue of Liberty May Rise Even Higher
  + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | Lauren Petracca | More About Jesse Mckinley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But for the past several years, it seemed as though the olfactory abuse might soon be ending: According to state permitting, the landfill was set to close at the end of 2025. Now, however, the landfill’s owner, the Texas-based Waste Connections, has indicated in filings with the state that it wants approval to fill a 47-acre “valley” between two of the site’s gigantic mounds — enough to fill MetLife Stadium 10 times, at least — a project it estimates would last until 2040. That project would raise the peak of Seneca Meadows by about 70 feet — roughly to the height of a 35-story building — making it one of the tallest man-made structures in upstate New York and an odoriferous outlier in the largely bucolic Finger Lakes region. Residents in and around Seneca Falls have long complained about a bevy of problems related to the site, including truck traffic, choking dust and the potential for landfill runoff — known as leachate — to contaminate drinking water.
Organizations: MetLife Locations: Texas, Seneca Meadows, New York, Seneca
☆ New York’s Biggest Landfill Could Get Even Bigger
  + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | Lauren Petracca | More About Jesse Mckinley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But for the past several years, it seemed as though the olfactory abuse might soon be ending: According to state permitting, the landfill was set to close at the end of 2025. Now, however, the landfill’s owner, the Texas-based Waste Connections, has indicated in filings with the state that it wants approval to fill a 47-acre “valley” between two of the site’s gigantic mounds — enough to fill MetLife Stadium 10 times, at least — a project it estimates would last until 2040. That project would raise the peak of Seneca Meadows by about 70 feet — roughly to the height of a 35-story building — making it one of the tallest man-made structures in upstate New York and an odoriferous outlier in the largely bucolic Finger Lakes region. Residents in and around Seneca Falls have long complained about a bevy of problems related to the site, including truck traffic, choking dust and the potential for landfill runoff — known as leachate — to contaminate drinking water.
Organizations: MetLife Locations: Texas, Seneca Meadows, New York, Seneca
☆ His Home Sits Alongside America’s First Superfund Site. No One Told Him.
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | Lauren Petracca | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
When he brushed his teeth, for instance, he sometimes noticed a peculiar smell coming through the drain. It seemed like his 8-year-old son’s asthma was getting worse, and his pregnant girlfriend was having occasional nosebleeds and headaches. And a couple of months ago, when he replaced a sump pump in the basement, it was covered in a thick tar-like substance. “It was just black,” he recalled. But none of these things struck him as too suspicious until he realized what was underneath the large, empty swath of grass, sealed off by a tall chain-link fence, just two blocks from his front door.
Persons: Mitchell Montgomery, ” Locations: Niagara Falls
☆ A $100 Billion Bet on Semiconductors Hinges on Remaking Upstate New York’s Workforce
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Annie Linskey | Joseph De Avila | Photographs Lauren Petracca For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
CLAY, N.Y.—A shortage of skilled workers in places such as this Syracuse suburb is posing a major challenge for the Biden administration’s ambitious plan to spur chip manufacturing in the U.S.Micron Technology Inc. plans to invest $100 billion to open a semiconductor-manufacturing campus here, with construction starting in 2024 and production beginning in the latter half of the decade.
☆ A New York Town Once Thrived on Fossil Fuels. Now, Wind Energy Is Giving a Lift.
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | Photographs Lauren Petracca For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
WELLSVILLE, N.Y.—This former oil town almost 300 miles from the coast is emerging as one of the early winners in the push to develop offshore wind in the Atlantic Ocean. The hulking steel components of wind turbines slated to rise out of the ocean east of Long Island are being welded at the Ljungström factory, which for 100 years has sold parts to coal-fired power plants. Plant managers here said their pivot to wind has meant hiring 150 more people and could reopen a facility that has been dormant for several years.
☆ With Therapists in Short Supply, College Students Counsel Each Other
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Andrea Petersen | Photographs Lauren Petracca For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Clinton, N.Y.—Hamilton College has found one answer to the growing number of students seeking mental-health care on campus: Send them to other students. The school trains about a dozen undergrads a year to serve as peer counselors, a role that entails being a good listener to other students. The counselors go through about three days of training per year and attend weekly meetings to review peer conversations with the school counseling center’s professional therapists.
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