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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Kansas could get another $25 million in federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to seal off abandoned oil wells, which can pose a health risk.
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas will be receiving $13.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to modernize electrical grid infrastructure in the state.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the University of Kansas Medical Center with more than $1,350,000 to help with three research projects.
Abandoned oil and gas wells were the focus of U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland’s visit to Olathe Monday, with Haaland, Kansas 3rd District representative Sharice Davids and Kansas Corporation Commission officials highlighting $50 million in federal funding to plug the wells.
Oil and gas wells that are in some cases over a century old, abandoned and emitting methane, are targeted for being plugged up as part of a comprehensive federal investment in infrastructure that may eventually include 378 wells in Johnson and Miami counties.
When it was Rep. Mark Alford’s time to speak in the House Committee on Small Business this May, the freshman Missouri Republican said there was a problem when it came to helping veterans start businesses.
The Johnson County Airport Commission hosted a ribbon-cutting Friday to celebrate the reopening of Taxiway Bravo, successfully completing the $5.7 million project.
SHAWNEE, Kan. — Improving the local economy may start from the ground up.
One elected official is among those who believe investing in kids and their families will deliver business-related dividends. Complaints that employees are hard to recruit and retain are common across the United States.
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids grabbed a shovel and flipped a chunk of dirt with state and local officials to mark the start of a $61 million road project in support of the 4,000-job Panasonic Energy electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant.
DE SOTO, Kan. (KCTV) - A groundbreaking ceremony kicked off construction for road improvements near Panasonic’s $4 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas.