CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 27, 2025 (ENS) – West Virginia, where the state’s 1.7 million residents experience high rates of preventable deaths and a lower life expectancy than the national average, adopted a ban on seven chemical food dyes and preservatives this week. The chemicals have been linked to neurobehavioral problems and cancer in some children. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 14, 2024 (ENS) – Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, CVOW-C, project located off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. has this week received its final […]
RICHMOND, Virginia, November 15, 2023 (ENS) – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the European supplier that leads the global market for offshore wind turbines, has suspended plans to build a US$200 million turbine blade factory at Virginia’s Portsmouth Marine Terminal, a major container port. […]
ROANOKE, Virginia, July 13, 2022 (ENS) – Responders are racing to Buchanan County in southwestern Virginia to conduct water rescues and search for at least 44 people reported missing. As […]
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 27, 2022 (ENS) – Rhode Island lawmakers last week passed a bill requiring that within 10 years 100 percent of electricity sold in the state come […]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when it struck Louisiana on August 29 to tropical depression blowing out into the Atlantic Ocean east of New England on September 2 . […]
NORFOLK, Virginia, July 4, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM, is starting its environmental review for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Commercial, or CVOW-C, project. […]
RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 10, 2021 (ENS) – North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, Wednesday issued an executive order emphasizing North Carolina’s commitment to offshore wind power as the […]
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – “Inland freshwater salt pollution is rising nationwide and worldwide, and we investigated the potential conflict between managing freshwater salt pollution and the sustainable […]
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