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	On Monday, State senator Kevin Thomas&nbsp;(D-Levittown) said there is a new pandemic-relief program aimed at&nbsp;helping the smallest businesses&nbsp;that opened in the past three years with a total of $200 million in grant funding.
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A clean energy company is abandoning a plan to build a giant electric battery factory in Atlanta's suburbs after it shifted to buy a solar panel plant in Texas.

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