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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation's largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn't comply with federal law. The Tennessee Valley Authority announced in April that it would replace the coal-burning Kingston Fossil Plant with natural [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After massive downpours flooded California's rivers and packed mountains with snow, the state reported this week the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years. The state saw 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge in the water year ending in September, and an 8.7 million acre-feet increase in groundwater storage, [...]
MADISON, Wis. — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile transmission line linking Iowa's Dubuque County and Wisconsin's Dane County. About a [...]
SABINA (AP) — It was just after dark as Ross Woodruff hopped into a truck to haul soybean seeds out to his brother, Mark, whose planter had run out. It was the first day they could plant after heavy rains two weeks earlier left much of their 9,000 acres too muddy to get equipment into [...]
As the federal government moves toward reclassifying marijuana, there may be little immediate impact in the dozen states that have not already legalized cannabis for widespread medical or recreational use by adults. Advocates for marijuana legalization, however, said they hope a federal regulatory shift could eventually change the minds — and votes — of some [...]
Franklin and Delaware counties lost more farmland between 2001 and 2021 than any other counties in the state, according to a new report by The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Franklin County lost 16,038 acres of agricultural land during that 20-year span, a 40 percent decrease and the most in [...]
In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campaign by [...]
Two Ohio State University researchers were instrumental in the analysis of a year’s worth of data collected in a groundbreaking survey of dark energy’s impact on the universe, the university announced this week. Postdoctoral astronomy fellow Andrei Cuceu and Ashley Ross, a research scientist at the university’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, were integral [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released last week that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. Losses from scams reported by Americans over the age of 60 last [...]
BOISE, Idaho — Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news — their property insurance won't be renewed because their insurance company has deemed the risk too high. It's a problem that has played out in states across the country as climate change [...]