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NEW YORK (AP) — Garden centers enjoyed a pandemic boom, particularly with millennials, as people looked for outdoor activities during lockdowns. Now the question is, will those wannabe green thumbs stick with the habit? In 2022, 80 percent of households took part in lawn and gardening activities, a five-year high, according to the National Gardening [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The ocean and beaches have always been a part of Atlantic City's identity: From salt water taffy to Miss America bathing beauties to the name of the place itself, the city has been marketed as a place to have fun by the sea. Yet there is a little too much Atlantic [...]
When Mike O'Neil opened his bicycle repair shop in Muncie, Ind., the Cardinal Greenway trail just outside its window stretched only two miles south of the shop. Today, it extends 33 miles beyond that, but the ultimate vision is far grander. O'Neil hopes the trail born from eastern Indiana's old railroad tracks will eventually become [...]
RENO, Nev. — President Joe Biden's administration has conditionally agreed to loan more than $2 billion to the company building a controversial lithium mine in Nevada with the largest known U.S. deposit of the metal critical to making batteries for electric vehicles key to his renewable energy agenda. The U.S Energy Department agreed to provide [...]
American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of methane gas as the government estimates, according to a new study. Because more than half of those methane emissions are coming from a small number of oil and gas sites, 1 percent or less, that means the problem is [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal airport security officials last week unveiled a passenger self-screening system at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, but said they do not plan to use it in other cities around the country. "How do we step into the future? This is a step," said a system designer, Dimitri Kusnezov, [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A private utility is asking Georgia legislators to change a state law so the company can provide water service to new homes near Hyundai's upcoming electric-vehicle factory without first getting permission from local governments. A state Senate committee in Atlanta last week voted to advance House Bill 1146 a week after [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups announced a proposal this week to address pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that officials say has been contaminating waterways and harming fisheries on both sides of the border for years. The proposal would be executed through a century-old U.S.-Canada boundary waters treaty, establishing [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco Bay Area parking lot that sits on top of a sacred tribal shell mound dating back 5,700 years has been returned to the Ohlone people by the Berkeley City Council after a settlement with developers who own the land. Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance giving [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Whenever bestselling author Robin Cook releases a new medical thriller, the head of the public library in West Haven, Conn., knows demand for digital copies will be high. So will the price. Similar to many libraries, West Haven’s library has been grappling with the soaring costs of e-books and audiobooks. The [...]