Sunday, June 28, 2026

ENERGY

Toxic Air in California as Huge Warehouse Fire Burns for 3rd Day

(Headline USA) Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as firefighters spent a third day Saturday battling a fire in a huge medical equipment warehouse. Air quality on the south side of Tracy, a city of 100,000 people where the Medline warehouse fire has...

Extreme Storms and Heat Rocks the Midwest, East Coast

(Headline USA) Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more potentially severe weather expected Thursday. The National Weather Service said it received more than a dozen reports of...

U.S. Supreme Court Slaps Down Biden Administration Energy Ruling

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday slapped down a decision from the Biden administration that regulated efficiency standards for furnaces and water heaters. Justices on the high court vacated the District of Columbia district court's decision in American Gas Association v. Department of Energy, where...

U.S. Reps Ask Regulators for Answers on Data Centers

(John Cole, The Center Square)  As the debate around data centers continues in Pennsylvania, a pair of lawmakers have penned a letter pushing for answers and transparency at the federal level. Last week, U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, and Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, sent a letter to the Federal...

Jeff Bezos’s Rocket Explodes, Sparking Investigation

(Headline USA) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is assessing damage to its launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing, creating a giant orange fireball seen and felt for miles around. The company fueled the hulking New Glenn rocket Thursday night, hoping to briefly ignite the engines ahead of a...

Chemical Tank Implosion in Washington Kills 1 and Leaves 9 Missing

(Headline USA) A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said. Another nine people were injured, some severely, in...

Investigators Looking for Cause of Fatal New York Explosion that Also Wounded Over 30 Firefighters

(Headline USA) Investigators were combing through a New York City shipyard on Saturday trying to find the cause of a fire and an explosion that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and other first responders. Authorities provided no major updates to the incidents that occurred Friday afternoon...

Trump Says a Deal with Iran and Opening of Strait of Hormuz are ‘Largely Negotiated

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Saturday that a deal with Iran on the war, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated” after calls with Israel and other allies in the region. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced...

Southern California Chemical Tank at Risk of Exploding as 40,000 Residents are Ordered to Evacuate

(Headline USA) Authorities braced for the possibility that a damaged chemical tank in Southern California could leak or explode as an evacuation order continued into the Memorial Day weekend for 40,000 residents with no timeline on when they can return. No injuries were reported after the pressurized tank overheated Thursday...

Farmland Prime for Data Centers, But at What Cost?

(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition, concerned about the industrialization of their farmland. At the same time, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is pursuing two priorities that can be difficult to balance: attracting...

Trump Postpones Signing Artificial Intelligence Order Out of Concern it Would Hurt the AI Industry

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America’s edge on AI technology. Trump said he was postponing the signing because he did not like what he saw in the order’s text. He announced...

Workers Say Mass Spirit Airlines Layoffs Violate Federal Law

(Michael Carroll, The Center Square) Six former Spirit Airlines employees, including five Florida residents, have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Florida company’s worker layoffs violate a federal law mandating a 60-day notice prior to such terminations. The laid-off employees filed the litigation May 12 in the federal bankruptcy...
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