** From heat protections for workers to restrictions on toxic chemicals, the Biden administration is set to leave several of the significant environmental and health protections it has floated unfinished. The fate of many of these regulations likely depends on the outcome of November’s election, as a Harris administration would probably continue them, while a Trump …
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New solar power leader is Texas
Texas is now the nation’s leader in solar produced electricity. It passed California as the state with the most power-generating capacity from solar projects. Texas is now the nation’s leader in both wind and solar power. Click here for Axios
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** Boeing said it has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing more than 32,000 workers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, in a deal that could help avert a possible crippling strike as early as Sept. 13. ** Cape Hatteras National Seashore officials expanded a beach closure this week as a precautionary measure against …
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**The union representing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff called on the agency to allow temporary remote work after Legionella bacteria was found at multiple EPA facilities around the country. ** The University of California at Davis and Innovative Genomics Institute are working to engineer the stomachs of cattle so they don’t produce the potent planet-warming …
Government to fund billions for rural electric cooperatives
A rural electric cooperative in Wisconsin is set to receive $573 million in government funding as part of the Biden administration’s latest massive clean energy effort. The administration annoounced it will spend $7.3 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act to finance the projects for rural electric cooperatives across the nation where 42 million Americans …
Congressman Lucas pushes for better weather predictions
Oklahoma Congressman Frank Lucas says one of his latest efforts on Capitol Hill is all about improving weather forecasting. And he’s not referring to the kind of weather prediction in the Old Farmer’s Almanac. In a note to constituents, the Republican U.S. Representative referred to the the Weather Data Taxpayer Protection Act. He called …
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** Southern California Edison cut off electricity Sunday to 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend community, an outage that it says is indefinite because the shifting ground threatens utility poles and raises the risk of fires in the city. Another 200 homes were expected to lose it Monday night. ** Vice President Kamala Harris plans …
Swiss solar manufacturer hit by big financial problems—delays plant in Colorado
Colorado Springs won’t be the site after all of a solar panel manufacturing plant by the Swiss firm, Meyer Burger. The decision was made after shares in the company plunged more than 50% this week, forciming Meyer Burger to delay financial results and draw up a restructuring plant. “Meyer Burger Technology AG announced today …
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** Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least 2,325 people died from the heat last year, according to the study, which included deaths with heat as both an underlying and contributing …
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** Midwest grid operators MISO and Southwest Power Pool seek federal approval for changes to their joint operating agreement that would advance $1.7 billion in transmission projects and enable up to 30 GW of new generation. ** An Iranian hacker group this spring attempted to breach multiple Utah government sites, including state data related to oil and gas. ** …
