Nebraska neighborhood loses power for hours after garbage truck gets stuck in sinkhole
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Nebraska neighborhood loses power for hours after garbage truck gets stuck in sinkhole

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A large portion of downtown Omaha lost power for several hours Thursday after a garbage truck got stuck in a sinkhole where utility lines had become exposed. The truck became stuck around 8 a.m. with its nose tilted down into the sinkhole and…

Flamanville 3 Nuclear Reactor Begins Operations After Long Delays in France

Flamanville 3 Nuclear Reactor Begins Operations After Long Delays in France

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates France’s nuclear energy sector reached a significant milestone as the Flamanville 3 European Pressurised Reactor in Normandy was successfully connected to the national electricity grid. According to reports, this reactor, now the country’s most powerful with a capacity of 1,600 MW, began supplying…

Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the incoming administration of President-elect…

Trump’s transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit in US: Report | Automotive Industry News

Trump’s transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit in US: Report | Automotive Industry News

US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, Reuters news agency has reported, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling…

Trump’s pick of Lee Zeldin for EPA shows he’s serious about protecting the economy and the environment
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Trump’s pick of Lee Zeldin for EPA shows he’s serious about protecting the economy and the environment

President-elect Donald Trump meant it when he vowed to juice the economy by rolling back needless regulations, and nothing proves that more than his choice of ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin — who in 2022 came closer to becoming New York governor than any Republican…

Earthquake rocks Cuba as residents struggle to recover from recent storms | Earthquakes News

Earthquake rocks Cuba as residents struggle to recover from recent storms | Earthquakes News

Officials say efforts to assess damage are under way after 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits eastern Cuba. A powerful earthquake has hit eastern Cuba, adding more problems to a country still reeling from a series of recent storms and blackouts. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported on Sunday that a magnitude…

GOP Senate candidate runs on school choice in New Mexico — where reading scores are dead last in the nation
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GOP Senate candidate runs on school choice in New Mexico — where reading scores are dead last in the nation

PHOENIX — Donald Trump’s unexpected rally in Albuquerque, NM, Thursday will bring added attention to the state’s under-the-radar Senate race — and hence to the under-the-radar issue of school choice. Republican hopeful Nella Domenici, daughter of the late Sen. Pete Domenici, is a businesswoman who with her husband runs the state’s…

Electricity finally begins to return in Cuba after multi-day power blackout | Energy News

Electricity finally begins to return in Cuba after multi-day power blackout | Energy News

Electricity is slowly returning to Havana, Cuba’s capital days after a nationwide blackout plunged the country of 10 million into total darkness on Friday, causing the government to close all non-essential workplaces and cancel school classes until Thursday. Power has been restored to almost 90 percent of Havana, according to…

Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis | Energy News

Cuba forced to ‘paralyse economy’ amid desperate energy crisis | Energy News

Millions of Cubans face 12-hour blackouts per day, but PM Marrero says country ‘not yet in a bottomless abyss’. Cuba’s government has announced it will halt all non-vital state services and businesses for three days as it battles an energy crisis that has caused marathon blackouts for much of the…

Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid probably violate humanitarian law: UN | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid probably violate humanitarian law: UN | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities probably violate international humanitarian law, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). The report published on Thursday focused on nine waves of attacks between March and August this year. HRMMU said it had visited…