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NorthWestern to Host First Quarter 2024 Financial Results Webinar and Notice of Virtual Annual Stockholders Meeting – 4/26

NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (Nasdaq: NWE) today announced that it will host an investor webinar on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. Eastern to review its financial results for the quarter ending March 31, 2024. The Company also plans to issue a news release detailing its financial results the evening of Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Affirming Truths about Homelessness

This learning brief examines public perceptions of people experiencing homelessness and dispels inaccurate assumptions and stereotypes embedded within them.

It’s Not Just Houston That’s Broke. So Are Silicon Valley Cities. Is Yours? Missoula’s Wye planning envisions 15,000 homes, small city in 50 years

The financial struggles of Houston and the cities of the Silicon Valley area—as well as tens of thousands of others across North America—have the same underlying cause. It comes to the aggressive outward expansion that cities began after World War II. They built more roads, more pipes, more infrastructure, and in the excitement of the moment, didn’t give a thought to how they would care for these investments. Let alone replace them when the time came. And the time is coming.

Missoula’s Wye planning envisions 15,000 homes, small city in 50 years

The county has established several Targeted Economic Development Districts at the Wye over the last five years, enabling to capture tax increment to fund future infrastructure. The Wye study area now covers around 3,500 acres, which is 2.5 times larger than that Swxtpqyen area west of Reserve Street.

What Does Your State Offer? – Minnesota To Offer Rebates For Up To 75% Of The Cost Of Qualifying E-Bikes

This summer, Minnesota residents can apply to get e-bike rebates that are worth up to 75% of the cost of an e-bike and certain accessories, which could go a long way toward getting more people in the saddle. The state has allocated $2 million for 2024 and $2 million for 2025 to fund the e-bike rebate program.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Vetoes Self-Driving Vehicles Bill. What is your state doing about the inevitable end of human driven vehicles?

Several other states have legalized fully autonomous vehicles, with Florida and California being early adopters.

ARPA Ag Infrastructure Grants

The intent of the Agriculture Infrastructure Grant Program is to advance Montana’s agricultural industry through targeted investments in value-added agriculture projects across the state. Grants will assist with the development of innovative agricultural business improvements to keep pace with a transforming agricultural industry, create new jobs, and expand business opportunities.

Tiny electric robovan cleans 1 million square feet of road per charge

The Robosweeper S1 from WeRide can work alongside street crews, or can work alone to quietly clean up day or night.

Washington State Passes Cutting-Edge Policies To Reduce Climate Pollution

Washington passed the first law in the United States that outlines a pathway for a combined gas and electricity utility to transition away from gas for all of its customers.

CO2-capturing rock dust boosts crop yields by up to 16%

“We have shown with hard-won data, the carbon removal potential of enhanced weathering practices in the real world,” said the lead scientist, U Sheffield’s Prof. David Beerling. “It’s a big step forward in understanding the enormous potential of this technology to mitigate climate change while simultaneously improving yields and soil health.”

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