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Lion Electric’s Joliet plant operating significantly below capacity as US and Canadian subsidies lag
As Illinois Democrats welcome their party’s national convention next month, one of their crown jewels for environmental activism — an electric school bus factory — is fighting for its life. In Joliet, 40 miles southwest of the Chicago convention site, the …