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A Danish offshore wind company with major projects in the U.S. has taken huge losses Wednesday after warning about its so-far unsuccessful effort to get more federal subsidies, according to Reuters. Orsted stated Tuesday that it anticipates that its three developments in U.S. waters may be $2.3 billion less valuable than anticipated, in part because the firm is having trouble receiving more tax credits from the Biden administration, according to Reuters. Other problems the firm’s projects face include supply chain backups and rising interest rates that make refinancing difficult. “The situation in U.S. offshore wind is severe,” Orsted’s CEO, Mads...

Group says clinics abide statutory rapeBY NANCY HICKS / Lincoln Journal Star A Lincoln Planned Parenthood employee told a young caller how she could avoid having her much older boyfriend charged with "statutory rape," according to a transcript of a February telephone conversation. The telephone conversation with an employee at Lincoln's South Street clinic was typical of the more than 800 calls made by an anti-abortion group to family-planning clinics and other abortion clinics across the country, according to Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics, a national pro-life organization. Most clinics indicated they would help the girl (who said she...