Energy
Grenada signs up for program to reduce power bills
A small, rural community on the island of Grenada is being targeted in an international pilot program to help reduce power bills and save energy. The roughly 400 residents of the impoverished village of Telescope will receive energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for the bulbs they are currently using. Grenada ...
Feds won't prosecute wind farm for condor deaths
A Southern California wind farm has been assured by federal authorities that they won't prosecute if the company's whirring turbine blades kill any endangered California condors. The wind farm operated by Alta Windpower Development in the Tehachapi Mountains has been granted a right of way by the U.S. Bureau of ...
Finding new tools for tracing fracking impacts
Sherlock Holmes used a magnifying glass to trace a fingerprint to its source. Andrew Barron favors miniscule rust particles, millions of gallons of water and a magnet. Researchers in the Rice University chemistry professor's laboratory have developed nanoparticles that will flow with the fluid used to hydraulically fracture oil and ...
Activists angry over coal mine reclamation process
Activists upset with the pace of reclamation at an eastern Illinois coal mine are pressing the Department of Natural Resources to block the site's owner from extending its reclamation permit for another five years. The Murdock Mine hasn't operated for 25 years, and law requires the site be returned to ...
THE OIL EXTREMISTS
c.2013 New York Times News Service The federal Energy Information Administration reported in March that at some point this year — maybe in the fall, maybe next month, maybe tomorrow — United States crude oil production will surpass imports for the first time since 1995. This is an important milestone. ...
Record-setting Md. sailor sets sights on science
So, how do you top setting a record as the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the Americas? Work small and smart — again. But this time, Matt Rutherford will have company. Rutherford, who set foot on land in Annapolis last April after 309 days alone on a 27-foot sailboat, has ...
TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
Lawmakers, AG seek more oversight of casino grants
Indiana officials are calling for more oversight of a public grant program that was designed to use casino revenue to spur economic development after a newspaper investigation found few jobs to show for the millions of dollars awarded. The Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/10FnhIx ) reported that a Lawrenceburg grant program using ...
Radiation leak at Japan lab; small impact expected
An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab's operator said Saturday. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said the accident occurred Thursday in its Hadron Experimental ...
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