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Chargers RB J.K. Dobbins unlikely to play against Falcons because of knee injuryBISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators approved permits Thursday for underground storage of carbon dioxide delivered through a massive pipeline proposed for the Midwest, marking another victory for a project that has drawn fierce opposition from landowners. The governor-led Industrial Commission voted unanimously to approve permits for Summit Carbon Solutions’ three proposed storage sites in central North Dakota. Summit says construction of the project would begin in 2026 with operations beginning in 2027, but it’s expected that resistant landowners will file lawsuits seeking to block the storage plans. “With these permits, we’re one step closer to providing vital infrastructure that benefits farmers, ethanol producers, and communities across the Midwest," Summit Executive VP Wade Boeshans said in a statement. Summit’s proposed 2,500-mile (4,023-kilometer), $8 billion pipeline would transport planet-warming CO2 emissions from 57 ethanol plants in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska for underground storage. Carbon dioxide would move through the pipeline in a pressurized form to be injected deep underground into a rock formation. The company has permits for its route in North Dakota and Iowa but can’t yet begin construction. Also on Thursday, Minnesota regulators approved a permit for a 28-mile (45-kilometer) leg of the project in western Minnesota. Summit also recently applied in South Dakota, where regulators denied the company’s previous application last year. Last month, the company gained approval for its North Dakota route , and Iowa regulators also have given conditional approval. Summit faces several lawsuits related to the project, including a North Dakota Supreme Court appeal over a property rights law related to the underground storage plan. Further court challenges are likely. North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum, who chairs the Industrial Commission, is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Interior Secretary and to lead a new National Energy Council. Burgum has frequently touted North Dakota's underground carbon dioxide storage as a “geologic jackpot.” In 2021, he set a goal for the No. 3 oil-producing state to be carbon-neutral by 2030. His term ends Saturday. Summit's storage facilities would hold an estimated maximum of 352 million metric tons of CO2 over 20 years. The pipeline would carry up to 18 million metric tons of CO2 per year to be injected about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) underground, according to an application fact sheet. Jessie Stolark, who leads a group that supports the project and includes Summit, said the oil industry has long used similar technology. “We know that this can be done safely in a manner that is protective of human health and underground sources of drinking water,” said Stolark, executive director of the Carbon Capture Coalition. Summit's project has drawn the ire of landowners around the region. They oppose the potential taking of their property for the pipeline and fear a pipeline rupture releasing a cloud of heavy, hazardous gas over the land. A North Dakota landowners group is challenging a property rights law related to the underground storage, and attorney Derrick Braaten said they likely would challenge the granting of permits. “The landowners that I'm working with aren't necessarily opposed to carbon sequestration itself,” Braaten said. “They're opposed to the idea that a private company can come in and use their property without having to negotiate with them or pay them just compensation for taking their private property and using it.” Carbon capture projects such as Summit's are eligible for lucrative federal tax credits intended to encourage cleaner-burning ethanol and potentially result in corn-based ethanol being refined into jet fuel. Some opponents argue the amount of greenhouse gases sequestered through the process would make little difference and could lead farmers to grow more corn despite environmental concerns about the crop. In Minnesota, regulators granted a route permit that would connect an ethanol plant in Fergus Falls to Summit’s broader network. They attached several conditions, including requirements that Summit first begin construction in North Dakota. An administrative law judge who conducted hearings concluded in November that the environmental impacts from the Minnesota segment would be minimal and noted that Summit has secured agreements from landowners along most of the recommended route. Environmental groups that oppose the project disputed the judge’s finding that the project would have a net benefit for the environment. Iowa regulators required Summit to obtain approvals for routes in the Dakotas and underground storage in North Dakota before it can begin construction in Iowa. The Iowa Utilities Commission's approval sparked lawsuits related to the project. In Nebraska, where there is no state regulatory process for CO2 pipelines, Summit is working with individual counties to advance its project. At least one county has denied a permit. Karnowski reported from Minneapolis. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Get local news delivered to your inbox!jilibay download 。

“We’re aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s really strong response to that,” NFL (National Football League) commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday after the conclusion of the league’s winter meetings. “We know the litigation is happening now. From our standpoint, our relationship is not changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.” A woman who previously sued musician Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging she was raped at an awards show after-party in 2000 when she was 13 years old, amended the lawsuit on Sunday to include a new allegation that Jay-Z was also at the party and participated in the sexual assault. Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, said the rape allegation made against him is part of an extortion attempt. The 24-time Grammy Award winner called the allegations “idiotic” and “heinous in nature” in a statement released by Roc Nation. The NFL teamed up with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation in 2019 for events and social activism. The league and the entertainment company extended their partnership a few months ago. Kendrick Lamar will perform the Super Bowl halftime show at The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9. Roc Nation and Emmy-winning producer Jesse Collins will serve as co-executive producers of the halftime show. Beyonce, who is married to Jay-Z, will perform at halftime of the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game at Christmas. “I think they’re getting incredibly comfortable not just with the Super Bowl but other events they’ve advised us on and helped us with,” Mr Goodell said. “They’ve been a big help in the social justice area to us on many occasions. They’ve been great partners.”

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CBC is restoring its live New Year’s Eve celebration. A year after the national broadcaster cancelled the 2024 countdown due to “financial pressures,” it says the special event is back on the TV schedule to mark the dawn of 2025. Festivities begin Dec. 31 with the one-hour “22 Minutes New Year’s Eve Pregame Special,” a satirical reflection on the events of 2024 with the cast of the political comedy series “This Hour Has 22 Minutes.” It will be followed by “Canada Live! Countdown 2025,” a special hosted by news anchor Adrienne Arsenault and singer Jann Arden broadcasting live from Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, and anchor Ian Hanomansing and comedian Ali Hassan at Vancouver’s VanDusen Botanical Garden. A representative for the CBC says the coast-to-coast show will feature reporters at more than a dozen community events across the country while a countdown to the new year will take place in each of the six time zones. Throughout the seven-and-a-half-hour program, “many Canadian celebrity guests” will appear in live and pre-taped messages. “Canada Live! Countdown 2025” begins at 8 p.m. ET on CBC News Network and CBC Gem with CBC-TV and CBC Radio picking up the feed at 9 p.m. in local markets. Last year, the CBC replaced its live New Year’s Eve programming with a taped Just For Laughs special hosted by comedian Mae Martin. That left Canadians without a homegrown countdown on any of the major networks, which sparked blowback on social media from some viewers. The CBC began its annual specials in 2017 to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial year. Some of the more recent broadcasts were hosted by comedian Rick Mercer and featured fireworks and musical performances in key cities. But when CBC paused those plans last year, it said the show had become “increasingly expensive to produce.” The decision to sideline the program was made shortly after members of Parliament summoned outgoing CBC president Catherine Tait to testify about job cuts and her refusal to rule out bonuses for CBC executives.U.S. senator says mysterious drones spotted in New Jersey should be 'shot down, if necessary'

‘Havoc’ by Christopher Bollen. Harper, 256 pages, $30 Christopher Bollen’s penchant for creating unique characters, then placing them in vividly explored exotic locations, again shines in the commanding “Havoc.” Chaos swirls around the brisk plot in “Havoc,” a story about a clash of generations, the perils of deciding how others should live and how evil can simmer below the surface. The unpredictable story keeps the reader off kilter as it does the characters who inhabit “Havoc.” The 81-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has forged a new life at the shabby-chic Royal Karnak Palace Hotel, located in Luxor, Egypt, on the banks of the Nile. She’s made friends with the manager, Ahmed, confides in husbands Ben and Zachary over their daily gathering at the pool, has found the staff sympathetic and interested in her as she grieves her husband Peter’s death six years ago. One would think a woman of 81 would be harmless, unassuming, physically weak. But this hotel is the 18th she’s lived at the past five years — having to flee each one, sometimes in the middle of the night, after she’s created a bit of havoc because she “intervened” in others’ lives. She calls it her “insatiable need to help others,” though it is unlikely the targets, or victims if you will, of her aid would agree. Maggie has been at this hotel for three months, hoping to stay at this “home” indefinitely. Related Articles Then Otto Seeber checks in with his sad looking mother, Tess. At 8 years old, Otto has a cherubic face, accented by his glasses and his mop of blonde hair, always with a smile on his face and a voice that makes him sound all innocent. He’s thirsty to know everything — about everyone. This little moppet seems harmless, just a child having fun. But Otto has a violent streak that often erupts. Even his mother admits to being afraid of him, mentioning that Otto’s behavior is why they had to leave Paris. Needless to say, Maggie and Otto are on a collision course as their mutual dislike for each other and harmful actions escalate, leaving chaos and death in their wake. The phrases “he’s just a child” or “just an old woman” are meaningless. Each knows exactly what they are doing. Bollen delivers a sophisticated plot pairing a kind of Miss Marple — if Agatha Christie’s character did more than just observe murders — and a classic bad seed of a depraved child. The character-driven plot ramps up with each chapter. Maggie and Otto are both vile and sympathetic at the same time. It is often deliciously unclear at times whom to believe, as the reader’s allegiance frequently shifts, making “Havoc” a richer story. Bollen finds the hidden corners of locales as his novels vividly have taken readers to Greece, Vienna and Long Island. In “Havoc,” he again returns to Egypt, taking the reader by the hand for a tour of the merciless Saharan landscape. Here, the sun is relentless, the sunsets so gorgeous they can bring one to tears, the ancient tombs stunning. The beauty of this harsh landscape mirrors the unrepentant souls of Maggie and Otto. Bollen gives the plot an extra layer of heft by setting “Havoc” during the middle of the COVID pandemic. “Havoc” is another showcase for Bollen. ‘Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir’ edited by Tod Goldberg. Soho Crime, 304 pages, $27.95 This outstanding collection of 11 stories uses Hanukkah to shadow events that occur around the Jewish holiday. It seems that Hanukkah brings out the best and worst in people — like most holidays that invite family gatherings, personal reflection and uncomfortable realities. These are stories about loyalty, such as Ivy Pochoda’s “Johnny Christmas;” responsibilities, such as David L. Ulin’s “Shamash;” family issues, such as James D.F. Hannah’s “Twenty Centuries” and Stefanie Leder’s “Not a Dinner Party Person,” with its gleefully sociopathic pharmaceutical sales rep who really doesn’t want to see her family in their Florida trailer park. Breaking up with your girlfriend isn’t the best idea around the holidays as Liska Jacobs shows in “Dead Weight.” The Goldberg brothers, each an established author, contribute vastly different stories, with Lee Goldberg’s con man in “If I Was a Rich Man” and Tod Goldberg’s clueless businessman who just wants to make payroll in the titular “Eight Very Bad Nights.” A short bio of each author introduces his or her story, no doubt inspiring readers to check out their other works. While eight stories would be in keeping with Hanukkah’s legend, readers will be grateful for the extra stories as each is a winner. Savor these dark, yet energetic stories as you light the menorah.