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Donald Trump Takes A Skeptical View Of Nuclear Energy On Joe Rogan’s Podcast - Huffington Post (Oct 27, 2024) |
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Oct 27, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump took a skeptical stance on nuclear energy in his recent interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, warning that the source of electricity Republican voters favor and GOP lawmakers vowed to support carries “dangers” and costs too much.
While the GOP nominee for president said atomic energy “is very clean” during his three-hour conversation with the popular comedian and sports commentator, he repeatedly cited the downsides of a technology his administration supported in the past and his campaign has now vowed to promote if he’s elected again next month.
“They get too big and too complex and too expensive,” Trump said.
“There’s a little danger ... Read more ...
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There’s An Insurance Crisis In Florida - And 1 Person May Be To Blame - Huffington Post (Oct 27, 2024) |
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Oct 27, 2024 · Wetter, more destructive hurricanes, like the back-to-back storms that pummeled Florida this fall, are pushing the state’s homeowners insurance market to the brink of collapse.
When asked by Florida Atlantic University pollsters in June who was most responsible for the high cost of insurance in the state, the largest share of surveyed voters blamed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. But it was his Republican predecessor, Rick Scott, now a U.S. senator, who lured low-quality insurance companies to the state and left Florida’s publicly owned insurer-of-last-resort agency struggling to provide for more homeowners as private insurers went bust or refused to renew policies in ... Read more ...
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A Democrat Is Running On An Issue That Was Once Controversial - Huffington Post (Oct 25, 2024) |
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Oct 25, 2024 · If power lines are the veins of the electrical system, big transmission lines that cross state and national borders are the major arteries ? and they’re notoriously hard to get approved.
In 2021, voters in Maine sided with fossil fuel companies on a referendum to block construction of a transmission line connecting Québec’s hydroelectric system to New England’s gas-burning grid. The next year, New York’s public utility regulator faced fierce opposition to a pair of transmission lines connecting New York City to solar and wind farms upstate and to Quebec’s zero-carbon grid.
Now, building a giant, locally-contested transmission line is something a Democrat is trying to run on. Read more ...
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This Could Be A Game Changer For America's Forgotten Paradise - Huffington Post (Oct 21, 2024) |
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Oct 21, 2024 · RINCÓN, Puerto Rico - At the end of a dirt road leading to a prime surfing spot in this vacation town on the northwest coast sits a giant, hemispheric bulb bulging out from between the palm trees. When the structure popped up more than six decades ago, federal scientists called it the “dome of the future.”
Beneath its rounded concrete exterior lie the remains of the only nuclear power reactor ever built in the Caribbean - an early experimental model the U.S. government started testing in 1960 to see if superheating steam to higher temperatures could unlock ways to make atomic energy cheaper.
Due to technical challenges and high maintenance costs, Puerto Rico’s ... Read more ...
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Democrats Are Embracing A Taboo Issue In Heated Senate Races - Huffington Post (Oct 20, 2024) |
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Oct 20, 2024 · Democratic candidates in several key Senate races are breaking with a long-standing taboo among liberal voters: They’re increasingly embracing nuclear power as tech companies, banks and governments pour money into building new reactors to shore up a U.S. electrical grid that’s heaving under pressure from data centers, air conditioning and extreme weather.
Asked during last week’s televised debate against Republican Kari Lake what he would do to deal with Arizona’s rising temperatures, Ruben Gallego, the Democratic nominee for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat, pitched just one big solution: more nuclear power.
In Michigan’s final U.S. Senate debate this week, Democrat ... Read more ...
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The U.S. Is Pushing Solar Panels On Puerto Rico - And It's Creating Issues - Huffington Post (Oct 20, 2024) |
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Oct 20, 2024 · SALINAS, Puerto Rico - Diana Santi was used to stocking the shelves of her corner grocer in this tiny town with canned and preserved foods from the continental United States.
She never understood why the fertile flatlands in this part of Puerto Rico’s southeast coast weren’t used to grow more local crops - she always had to pay a markup for shipping costs. But she’s had a more pressing problem: Keeping the perishables she sells from spoiling in the power outages that still plague the most populous U.S. territory seven years after Hurricane María laid waste to the Caribbean archipelago’s electrical grid.
When solar energy developers started staking out the open fields a ... Read more ...
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A Ship Floating In Puerto Rico Could Become A Full-On Nightmare - Huffington Post (Oct 19, 2024) |
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Oct 19, 2024 · CATAÑO, Puerto Rico - Just before the rain began one afternoon in July, Lissette Avilés Ríos went looking for the best spot along the shoreline to see the ship she feared might bring fiery death.
The nun hopped in her SUV and drove from her convent in this coastal neighborhood on the opposite side of San Juan Bay from scenic Viejo San Juan, past dockyards and down streets where gray pipelines stacked as high as the rooftops hemmed in some houses on two sides. Pulling into a vacant lot on the water, she got out, approached the edge and pulled back the feathery needles of a white pine just barely clinging to the eroding shore.
The letters etched along the red-painted hull ... Read more ...
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Why Tech Giants Are Pouring Money Into Nuclear Energy - Huffington Post (Oct 16, 2024) |
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Oct 16, 2024 · Nearly a month after Microsoft bet $16 billion on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its energy-hungry data centers, Google and now Amazon are inking massive deals to finance the United States’ ambitious atomic revival plans.
On Wednesday morning, Amazon Web Services announced a megadeal with two utilities to fund the construction of next-generation nuclear plants near its server farms in Virginia and Washington.
Unlike its rivals’ recent deals, the tech giant isn’t just agreeing to buy nuclear-generated electricity. Amazon teamed up with billionaire Ken Griffin to pump $500 million into X-energy, a Maryland-based startup designing small ... Read more ...
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Dog's Eyes 'Say It All' After Firefighter Saves Him From Hurricane Flooding - Huffington Post (Oct 12, 2024) |
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Oct 12, 2024 · As recovery efforts continue in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, an especially sweet selfie is standing out.
“Check out this beautiful moment of pure gratitude and love!” wrote Florida’s Hillsborough County Fire Rescue in a Facebook post on Friday.
One photo included in the post shows a wet, bedraggled-looking dog gazing at a firefighter, who stares down at the camera.
“This dog’s eyes say it all as he looks at Cpt. Dusty Mascaro from our HCFR [search and rescue] team after being brought to safety,” the post said. Read more ...
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Trump Drives His Anti-Immigration Message In Aurora, Colorado - Huffington Post (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Donald Trump detoured from the battleground states Friday to visit a Colorado suburb that’s been in the news over illegal immigration as he drives a message, often using false or misleading claims and dehumanizing language, that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns.
Trump’s rally in Aurora marked the first time ahead of the November election that either presidential campaign has visited Colorado, which reliably votes Democratic statewide.
The Republican nominee has long promised to stage the largest deportation operation in U.S. history and has made immigration core to his political persona since launching his first ... Read more ...
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Missed The Northern Lights? Here’s Where They’re Forecast To Appear Next. - Huffington Post (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · Stargazers received a spectacular treat in parts of the U.S. and Europe on Thursday when the northern lights appeared in skies much farther south than they’re typically ever seen.
The pink, purple, blue and green light show was documented in parts of England, Germany, and as far south as Florida in the U.S.
The aurora borealis, as the lights are also known, is typically seen in the upper parts of the Northern Hemisphere around the Arctic Circle (places like Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, Finland and Sweden). But scientists say a powerful solar storm caused the dazzling lights to appear at unusually low latitudes this week.
Here’s what happened, and when and why ... Read more ...
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Arizona Democrat Calls Out Kari Lake In The Most Perfect Way - Huffington Post (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Oct 10, 2024 · Arizona just ended its hottest summer since records began in 1896, with its fast-growing Phoenix metropolis last month completing a historic 113-day streak of temperatures at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The next few decades are forecast to be even hotter for longer.
To survive in that heat and keep the state’s economy growing, Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego pitched one major solution at Wednesday night’s final debate with Republican rival Kari Lake.
More nuclear power.
Amid a combative televised parley in which the serving U.S. congressman attacked his GOP opponent for denying election results and climate science, Gallego said new reactors were the “quickest ... Read more ...
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FEMA Chief Says Misinformation 'Starting To Go Down' Amid Disaster Response - Huffington Post (Oct 09, 2024) |
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Oct 09, 2024 · WASHINGTON – FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said Wednesday that the swirl of misinformation being spread by right-wing influencers on social media - and by former President Donald Trump - about the federal disaster response to Hurricane Helene is starting to wane.
“We’re still seeing some misinformation out there. I do believe that the volume of misinformation is starting to go down,” Criswell said on a call with members of the press. “But we need to continue to now remain focused on what our mission is: Our mission is to help people.”
“We are not going to let the misinformation be a distraction to the important work we need to do,” she added.
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We're Meteorologists. Here's The Deadliest Mistake People Make Before A Hurricane. - Huffington Post (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · On Monday, Hurricane Milton strengthened into a Category 5 storm and continued barreling toward Florida. The system will bring life-threatening hazards like storm surges, flooding and catastrophic winds to the region when it makes landfall midweek.
The hurricane is coming less than two weeks after the state experienced the devastation of Hurricane Helene. But if you’re a Floridian or know someone who is, do not let storm fatigue prevent you or a loved one from taking action this time. This extremely dangerous new storm is set to be a historic event.
“If the storm stays on the current track, it will be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in over 100 years,” warned ... Read more ...
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'I Don't Think It's Sunk In': The Town Hurricane Helene Almost Wiped Off The Map - Huffington Post (Oct 05, 2024) |
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Oct 05, 2024 · CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE, N.C. (AP) - The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making - heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water.
But in just a few minutes, nature undid most of what it has taken humans a century and a quarter to build in the North Carolina mountain town of Chimney Rock.
“It feels like I was deployed, like, overnight and woke up in ... a combat zone,” Iraq War veteran Chris Canada said as a massive twin-propped Chinook helicopter passed over his adopted hometown. “I don’t think it’s sunk in yet.”
Nearly 400 miles (644 kilometers) from where Hurricane Helene ... Read more ...
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Gen Z Talks About This Kind Of Anxiety More Than Anyone Else - But We're All Starting To Feel It - Huffington Post (Oct 04, 2024) |
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Oct 04, 2024 · When Ayana Williams, 23, hears older people talk about temperate weather in “the good old days,” she has to knock back the jealousy she feels. She’s envious that older generations got to experience summers that were breezy and bearable, not suffocatingly hot.
“And I definitely feel envious that my kids will never get to experience the joys of a happy Earth,” said Williams, who’s a digital marketer from Virginia.
“There was once a time these natural disasters helped the earth heal itself; wildfires would make room for new plant life to grow, floods would nourish barren lands,” she said. Now, Williams said, it feels like these disasters continuously erase and ... Read more ...
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JD Vance Made An Eye-Popping Suggestion During The Debate - Huffington Post (Oct 02, 2024) |
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Oct 02, 2024 · A back-and-forth about federal lands during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate shined light on how a future Trump administration - much like the first - would treat publicly owned acres as little more than landscapes to be exploited and developed.
Asked about the Republican Party platform’s proposal to pawn off federal lands to address housing affordability, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), effectively argued that undeveloped acres are serving little, if any, purpose.
“Well, what Donald Trump has said is we have a lot of federal lands that are not being used for anything,” he said. “They’re not being used for a national park … ... Read more ...
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JD Vance's Mic Gets Cut During Immigration Question At Vice Presidential Debate - Huffington Post (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Oct 01, 2024 · Debate moderators cut off the candidates’ microphones during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate as Republican JD Vance tried to get in a last word about immigration.
Shortly before the cutoff, Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, complained that a debate moderator corrected him when he suggested Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were there illegally.
“The rules that you guys weren’t going to fact check,” Vance said. Read more ...
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JD Vance, Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate: Latest Updates - Huffington Post (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Oct 01, 2024 · Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) went head-to-head Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate scheduled ahead of Election Day.
The running mates of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris kept things fairly civil, rarely talking over or interrupting one another at the event on CBS, which was moderated by Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan.
The two regularly pointed out when they agreed with one another, but also tried to highlight the stark differences in their running mates’ platforms, touching on topics like immigration, abortion, climate change, housing and inflation. Things heated up as the two discussed the Jan. 6 ... Read more ...
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Trump Lists His Grievances In A Wisconsin Speech Intended To Link Harris To Illegal Immigration - Huffington Post (Sep 28, 2024) |
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Sep 28, 2024 · PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) - Former President Donald Trump meandered Saturday through a list of grievances against Vice President Kamala Harris and other issues during an event intended to link his Democratic opponent to illegal border crossings.
A day after Harris discussed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump spoke to a crowd in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, about immigration. He blamed Harris for migrants committing crimes after entering the U.S. illegally, alleging she was responsible for “erasing our border.”
“I will liberate Wisconsin from the mass migrant invasion,” he said. “We’re going to liberate the country.”
Trump hopes frustration over illegal ... Read more ...
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