WASHINGTON DC, November 20, 2024 (ENS) – To improve the economics of recycling end-of-life electric vehicle batteries, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced $44.8 million in funding from the […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 2, 2024 (ENS) – Hurricane Helene blasted through the southern United States Thursday night as a deadly Category 4 Hurricane, claiming at least 175 lives in six states, and leaving millions still without power. Falling trees crushed buildings as historic flooding across multiple states put homes and businesses underwater. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 6, 2024 (ENS) – Independence Day 2024 will go down in the record books as one of the hottest. In total, more than 100 million people – nearly one in every three Americans – spent Thursday under heat alerts, according to the National Weather Service. […]
MIAMI, Florida, September 28, 2022 (ENS) – Blowing 155 miles per hour, Hurricane Ian made landfall this afternoon near the Florida barrier island of Cayo Costo off the southwest panhandle coast of Lee County. The storm forced hundreds of thousands to leave home to escape towering floods, and knocked out power to millions. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 29, 2022 (ENS) – Turning coal waste from power plants into fire-resistant, strong, lightweight building materials is a project the U.S. Department of Energy is supporting, investing another $2.2 million this month as part of a wider effort … […]
ORLANDO, Florida, February 26, 2022 (ENS) – “There is an ecological crisis in Indian River Lagoon. Large quantities of water with high levels of nutrient pollution from Lake Okeechobee and […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 11, 2021 (ENS) – The interval between tropical storms making landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been getting shorter over the past 40 years. By the end of the century, Louisiana and Florida will be twice as likely as they are now to experience two tropical storms that make landfall within nine days of each other… […]
PALMETTO, Florida, April 4, 2021 (ENS) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled today to Manatee County to meet state and local officials as Florida struggles with uncontrolled toxic discharges from […]
MIAMI, Florida, November 4, 2020 (ENS) – Slow-moving, wet and windy, Hurricane Eta made landfall south of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday afternoon. Eta had maximum sustained winds near 140 mph at landfall, but by Wednesday morning the winds had dropped to 70 mph winds, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. […]
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