The Trump administration is making good on a promise to send more water to California farmers in the state’s crop-rich Central Valley. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday announced a new plan for operating the Central Valley Project, a vast system of pumps, dams and canals that direct water southward from the state’s wetter north....
Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger — who promised during her campaign to prioritize affordable energy if she won — on Sunday doubled down on her views of the “energy crisis” that her state will face without new policies to hold the biggest users accountable. “There’s some bad energy policies in some of our neighboring states that have driven...
A July 11 post in a Hoboken, New Jersey, parenting group on Facebook pointed to a frustrating trend: “Our utility bill is more than double what it was last month. … Anything we can do about it?” The post had several dozen replies and most of the commenters said their home utility bills had also...
The world’s first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway’s coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating the site said Monday. The project by Northern Lights, which is led by oil giants Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies, involves transporting and burying CO2 captured at smokestacks...
A recent assessment discovered millions of barrels of oil and billions of cubic feet of natural gas resources in northwest Colorado and southwest Wyoming. The United States Geological Survey announced the discovery of new resources in the Phosphoria Total Petroleum System, which has produced oil and gas since the 1920s. Since then, approximately 500 million barrels of...
Angela Harmon and her grandson Leo headed out on a hot day in Dallas, Texas, to a neighborhood store that is run by their church. It’s where they keep cool because running Harmon’s air conditioner at home is more than she can afford. “It’s costly, it’s expensive, and I have to juggle to pay it,” Harmon...
It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new plants...
Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order establishing the first program of its kind in the nation to give critical projects a leg up during the permitting processes. The governor calls the initiative a “game changer” for economic development in the Keystone State. “We need to move quickly to get big projects built and to...
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