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With 'outdated' electric grid, major new rule with Midwest ties could boost renewables
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoThere's a "generational need" to invest in the nation's outdated electric grid to power a greener...
Billion-dollar weather disasters are soaring again this year. Here’s why.
Washington Post· 15 hours agoEleven separate billion-dollar weather disasters this year have together caused over $25 billion in...
Minnesota is officially drought-free after a rainy spring
KMSP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoDrought comparison from March-June 2024. Photos courtesy of U.S. Drought Monitor. (Supplied) That...
Texas is one of regions that could face electric supply shortages
Midland Reporter-Telegram· 13 hours agoThe agency cited the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s 2024 Summer Reliability...
Off the Beaten Trail: Walking in the path of American pioneers along the Oregon Trail
Estes Park Trail Gazette· 20 hours agoIn seemingly random places throughout the Midwest and West, markers pop up indicating the Oregon...
Brrr! Iowa and Iowa State could get home football College Football Playoff games at 7 p.m.
The Gazette· 7 days agoA couple crosses the street as snow begins to fall in Cedar Rapids on Dec. 21, 2022. The average low...
NOAA Announces May 2024 Wrapped Up A Stormy, Destructive Spring For The U.S. - 11 Billion-Dollar...
Sierra Sun Times· 20 hours agoMay 2024 was a turbulent month across the contiguous U.S., as storms continued their spring onslaught. The month also added more billion-dollar disasters to the growing list of disasters NOAA ...
New solar will help keep power on during scorching summer, report says
Oregon Capital Chronicle via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWith some parts of the country already facing heat waves, the organization in charge of setting...
How Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Panhandle economy and ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 6 days ago‘We’re going to be sunk’ When Seaboard opened its Guymon plant in the winter of 1995, many saw it as...
What’s behind the record outbreak of spongy moths in the eastern US?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Take a few...