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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drivers in eight Midwestern states will be able to fuel up with a higher blend of ethanol throughout the year under a final rule announced last week by the Environmental Protection Agency. The biofuels industry and farming groups, with support of Midwest governors, sought the end of a summertime ban [...]
Federal regulators have granted Native American tribes more power to block hydropower projects on their land after a flurry of applications were filed to expand renewable energy in the water-scarce Southwest. Previously, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted developers approval to move ahead with planning even if tribes objected. That practice came to an end [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell to its lowest level in five weeks, even as more high-profile companies announce layoffs. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 12,000 to 201,000 for the week ending Feb. 17, the Labor Department reported. The four-week average of claims, a less volatile measure, fell [...]
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company's "Super Cruise" partially automated driving system. The expansion nearly doubles the road miles where the system can run. It includes both limited-access divided highways as well as some two-lane [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Laboratory-produced diamonds’ popularity has grown in recent years. One of the appeals of a lab-grown diamond is that they cost a fraction of the stones formed naturally underground. Lab-produced diamond sales in the United States jumped 16 percent last year from 2022, according to Edahn Golan, an industry analyst. Lab diamonds are [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month’s blowout of a door panel on a jetliner flying over Oregon. The National Transportation Safety Board said that the Federal Aviation Administration should require many current planes to have recorders [...]
Jayson Tatum remembers how it felt when he first bought a home. "It didn't seem real," said the Boston Celtics power forward, a five-time NBA All-Star set to start for the Eastern Conference in this year's All-Star Game on Sunday. Tatum told The Associated Press in an interview how he wants to help others in [...]
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a bulkhead to protect itself, ruling that no one is in imminent danger. The state Department of Environmental Protection told North Wildwood earlier this month it will not give permission to the [...]
RENO, Nev. — Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a full, year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine being built along the Nevada-Oregon line should be listed as a threatened or endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a finding [...]