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New legislation to extend a controversial practice is ruffling feathers in Wyoming.

WHO owns the wind? With this recently announced round of ScotWind leases, it’s BP, Shell, a bunch of private companies, Iberdrola and the Swedish…

Looking back at Dundalks past, with former Democrat editor Peter Kavanagh

Lawmakers will also consider proposal to expand access to mental healthcare, create new jobs and fund higher education programs in Hawaii.

Counties Kerry, Mayo, Sligo, and Dublin were drastically hit when "The Night of the Big Wind" ravaged Ireland in 1839. It’s estimated that between 90 and 300 people died in Ireland and tens of thousands were left homeless as winds reached well over 115 miles per hour during the category three hurricane.

10 Images Of Terrifying Weather Events Head Editor Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.More About Us Weather is notoriously unpredictable. A sharply dressed weatherman smiles brightly through your TV set on a Monday morning, promising a sunny day, only for you to get caught up in a hailstorm of note and arrive at wor...

Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers. Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce their power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.” CAISO’s warning of impending electricity shortages heralds anothe...

The California Independent System Operator has asked consumers to reduce power use “to reduce stress on the grid and avoid power outages.”

Big Wind – Probably the Most Powerful Firetruck Ever Built What to you get when you combine an old Soviet tank with two Soviet jet engines and a lot of water? The answer is Big Wind, a fire truck capable of stopping oil well fires all by itself. In February of 1991, near the end of the Gulf War, the retreating Iraqi army set over 700 Kuwaiti oil wells on fire, thus creating the desert into an almost apocalyptic landscape. Up to six million barrels of oil burned every day for 30 weeks, sending...

The climate activists who are dancing on the grave of the canceled Keystone XL pipeline shouldn’t celebrate too much.