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Major freight railroad operators will have to maintain two-person crews on most routes under a new federal rule that was finalized earlier this week. The Transportation Department’s Federal Railroad Administration released the details of the rule after working on it for the past two years. There has been intense focus on railroad safety since the [...]
After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a new span and new name. It even won a national award. Today, however, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials raised concerns about a vintage section of the nearly century-old bridge that carried about 15,000 vehicles [...]
The largest uranium producer in the country is ramping up work just south of Grand Canyon National Park on a project that comes as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher. The Biden administration and dozens of other countries have pledged to triple the capacity of nuclear power worldwide and policy changes are [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration has restored rules to protect threatened species and shield their habitat from destruction after the measures were rolled back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for animals and plants newly classified [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration last week issued a final rule aimed at curbing methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on federal and tribal lands, its latest action to lower emissions of methane. The rule issued by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will tighten limits on gas flaring on federal lands [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan, officials announced last week. Holtec International acquired the 800-megawatt Palisades plant in 2022 with plans to dismantle it. Now the emphasis is on restarting it by late 2025, following support from the state of [...]
Kevin Keatts and North Carolina State reached the NCAA tournament the old-fashioned way. The way that existed before the bubble. Before bracketology. Before NET rankings, KenPom, the transfer portal, name, image and likeness and all the rest. Before the tournament field grew (and grew some more), when the only way to punch your ticket into [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The young voices in the messages left for North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis were laughing, but the words were ominous. “OK, listen, if you ban TikTok I will find you and shoot you,” one said, giggling and talking over other young voices in the background. “I’ll shoot you and find you and [...]
The Biden administration earlier this week announced $6 billion in funding for projects that are designed to reduce emissions from the industrial sector — the federal government’s largest-ever investment to decarbonize domestic industry. The industrial sector is responsible for approximately 25 percent of all the nation’s emissions and has proven difficult to decarbonize due to [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Biden administration last week pumped more money into clean-energy projects, announcing up to $475 million in federal funding for projects in five states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada. The projects are expected to accelerate clean-energy development on current and former mine lands, the U.S. Department of Energy announced. Other states [...]