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Feeding the Frontlines awards Cleveland’s Best foods to more than 700 teachers (photos) Updated May 10, 2021; CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Zakiayyah Bergen brushed aside tears as she accepted 150 restaurant gift cards for teachers in her school district from Mojo World Eats and Tommy’s last week. The Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District was one of six Northeast Ohio school systems that received 735 gift cards in Advance Ohio’s Feeding the Frontlines project to reward educators’ e...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Biden wants to move energy offshore, but choppy seas are ahead Source: By Joshua Partlow, Washington Post • Posted: Sunday, May 9, 2021 To fight climate change, the administration supports a huge expansion in offshore wind farms by 2030 A liftboat at the Dorchester Shipyard in New Jersey on Friday. The ships help do drilling and cabling for offshore wind farms. (Hannah Yoon for The Washington Post) DORCHESTER, N.J. — In his three decades...

Up and down the East Coast, developers and government agencies are preparing for the massively complex and costly challenge of placing thousands of wind

Biden wants to move energy offshore, but choppy seas are ahead By Joshua Partlow The Washington Post,Updated May 9, 2021, 4:13 a.m. Email to a Friend Wind turbines at the San Gorgonio Pass wind farm, owned by NextEra Energy Inc., in Whitewater, California, on Feb. 17, 2021.Bing Guan/Bloomberg DORCHESTER, N.J. - In his three decades servicing oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, boat captain Keith Piper rode out all manner of storms and gales. Still, he had never faced the elements that tested h...

Biden wants to move energy offshore, but choppy seas are ahead Josh Partlow © Hannah Yoon for The Washington Post A liftboat at the Dorchester Shipyard in New Jersey on Friday. The ships help do drilling and cabling for offshore wind farms. DORCHESTER, N.J. — In his three decades servicing oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, boat captain Keith Piper rode out all manner of storms and gales. Still, he had never faced the elements that tested him last winter at a wind farm ...

Ropes that spring to the water’s surface when summoned and virtual buoys could hold the key to saving one of the world’s most endangered whale species, scientists and conservation groups have said. As the North Atlantic right whale nears the brink of extinction – amid reports of whales tangled in metres of thick fishing lines and findings suggesting 85% of the population have been entangled at least once – calls have grown for the adoption of ropeless fishing, using gear that does not i...

Editors note: This is part of a series of 10 stories on a variety of topics that take a look back at 2020 and forward to 2021. Many policies and practices were changed or adjusted because of the pandemic — or other disruption — and we look at how those changes will shape the future.  For North Atlantic right whales, the most endangered great whale — and marine mammal —  on Earth, the good news for the new year started early, with the birth of three calves in the fall. But a four...

One of the worlds most endangered whales was spotted swimming with a newborn in the waters off South Carolinas Hilton Head island. A drone camera captured footage of a 50-ton North Atlantic right whale and her calf frolicking about four miles from shore. According to the boat captain who spotted the pair on Friday, the mother was 50 feet long and the calf was close to 15 feet. The North Atlantic right whale is among the rarest of marine mammals, with less than 400 left in the world. Collisions ...