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Energy Strategy Series 2024: DOE leads effort to modernize power grid, make it resilient and adaptable 04/23/2024 05:15pm • The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act put the Energy Department (DOE) in both an enviable and challenging position at the same time. Congress appropriated nearly $100 billion to invest in clean energy, grid reliability upgrades, renewable energy technology manufacturi Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming in the River Seine 04/23/2024 12:08pm • PARIS (AP) — Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she was confident water quality in the River Seine will be up to Olympic standards this summer — and that she’ll be able to prove it by swimming there, possibly alongside President Emmanuel Macron. The Seine is the venue for marathon swimming at the As airplane makers struggle to meet demand, Morocco wants to become a manufacturing hub 04/23/2024 11:59am • CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan officials want to turn the country into an aviation hub, luring investors aiming to spread out their supply chains to more nations with available and affordable workers. The North African kingdom is among a longer list of countries vying for contracts with big m AP finds grueling conditions in Indian shrimp industry that report calls 'dangerous and abusive' 04/23/2024 11:12am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d seen on social media for crispy shrimp spring rolls, so she and her husband headed to Costco’s frozen foods aisle. But when she grabbed a bag of farm-raised shrimp from the freezer and saw “Product of India,” she wr The problem with leaf blowers, and what you can do instead 04/23/2024 10:23am • When I was a kid, I used to help my mother clear leaves the old-fashioned way — with a rake. These days, I don’t see many rakes in my neighborhood. It seems everyone has a leaf blower or a landscaper who uses one, often at ungodly hours, which disrupts humans as well as wildlife. The near-const Writer Leonardo Padura chronicles life in Cuba as his detective 'alter ego' solves gripping crimes 04/23/2024 01:15am • HAVANA (AP) — His novels recount gruesome murders, thefts, scams, bribes and humiliating secrets. But those are not even the most important themes in the stories told by award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura. For the last four decades, Padura, 68, has managed to turn his series of detective t US advances review of Nevada lithium mine amid concerns over endangered wildflower 04/23/2024 12:06am • RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. The B In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice 04/22/2024 10:14pm • LONG AN, Vietnam (AP) — There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. That and the giant drone, its wingspan similar to that California announces first new state park in a decade and sets climate goals for natural lands 04/22/2024 09:14pm • MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Monday, as the state sets targets for cutting planet-warming emissions on natural lands. The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-ri 7 Best Electric Vehicle ETFs to Buy 04/22/2024 08:00pm • Electric vehicles, or EVs, are once again capturing the attention of investors this year, but the sentiment is not as optimistic as it once was. The current controversy revolves around Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA), a titan in the EV industry. Tesla has experienced a significant downturn in 2024, and it 5 Top Options for Affordable Retirement in Europe 04/22/2024 08:00pm • The culture and relative safety of many European cities can be appealing to American retirees, but those living on a fixed income must stretch their U.S. dollars as far as possible. Major cities such as London may check all your boxes, but the cost of living may be too high for anything more than a Earth Day's origins trace back to this Northern Virginia estate 04/22/2024 04:29pm • In 1969, a group of law and medical students gathered at a picturesque estate in Warrenton, Virginia, and heard a speech from the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, calling for a day in which the world paused to focus on protecting planet earth. It was that meeting that resulted in the creati Fires have consumed nearly 20,000 acres in Va. this spring. That could be good for the environment. 04/22/2024 03:23pm • A fire at The Waterfall Mountain complex west of Luray Wednesday night. (Courtesy Peter Forister Photography) Almost 20,000 acres have been lit by flames that primarily torched the western and central parts of the state so far during Virginia’s 2024 spring fire season. With about a week left u Tennessee's GOP governor says Volkswagen plant workers made a mistake in union vote 04/22/2024 03:14pm • GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Monday that he thinks workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga made a mistake by voting to unionize under the United Auto Workers in a landslide election but acknowledged the choice was ultimately up to them. Ahead of the vote, Lee Delta Air Lines, facing another union attempt to organize flight attendants, is raising their pay 04/22/2024 12:16pm • Delta Air Lines, the most profitable U.S. carrier, is raising pay for nonunion employees as it gets ready for another attempt by a union to represent its flights attendants. CEO Ed Bastian told Delta employees Monday that the airline will boost pay for flight attendants and ground workers by 5%, rai