Especially in the Midwest, climate change presents a growing threat to the nation’s nearly 92,000 dams, many more than 100 years old, as heavy rainfall, flooding and other forms of extreme weather become more common and severe.
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Minnesota’s century-old Rapidan Dam captured the national spotlight last week when its partial failure destroyed a home and prompted county officials to demolish an adjacent store. Yet it’s just one of hundreds of dams across the Upper Midwest in similar or worse condition, according to an analysis of federal data by Inside Climate News.
The settlement requires the quarry to set buffer zones around houses or buildings, notify residents before blasting and stop operating at night or on Sundays.
Residents of the small north Alabama community of Belle Mina are breathing easier after reaching a settlement with a limestone quarry they say was disrupting their homes and places of worship.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission stops short of fulfilling the Trump administration’s wishes but puts regional grid operators on a “short leash.”
The nation’s electric grid is stressed out.
Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers
Climate Change
James Bruggers, Who Brought Passion and Kindness to Environmental Reporting, Dies at 68
Bruggers was known to colleagues as a dogged reporter and a generous coworker, and to sources as an honest watchdog.
James Bruggers, whose decades of dogged reporting shined a light on polluting corporations, inadequate regulations and the people who fought against them for environmental justice, died Tuesday at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 68.
James Bruggers, Who Brought Passion and Kindness to Environmental Reporting, Dies at 68
Alabama Limestone Quarry Settles Lawsuit Over Dust, Noise
Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers
James Bruggers, Who Brought Passion and Kindness to Environmental Reporting, Dies at 68
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