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Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12% nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.

Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.

California has long championed renewable energy, but a change in the state’s policies last year has led to a sharp decline in the installation of residential rooftop solar in the state. Thousands of companies — including installers, manufacturers and distributors — are reeling from the new policy, which took effect in April and greatly reduced incentives that had encouraged homeowners to install solar panels. Since the change, sales of rooftop solar installations in Californ...

Some businesses might even choose to stop operations in California after the new solar energy policy.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is a “free speech Death Valley” for whistleblowers who raise concerns or file complaints about the quality of VA patient care, Thomas Devine, director of the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, told House lawmakers Thursday.

At the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, a troubled girl was held in isolation and subjected to violent restraints — even as advocates pressed for reforms at the facility. The full story of what she endured inside Woodside, which was run by the Department for Children and Families before it was shuttered, has never been told — until now.

Aaron Boles' victims were both thrown into the air after he drove a vehicle at them in West Lothian.

A prominent scientist from Co Antrim who played a crucial role in the development of the atomic bomb worried more about the ultimate consequences of his work than his role in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A number of British scientists were involved in the Manhattan Project including Sir Samuel Curran.

The city is set to roll out a shortlist of new names for Dundas Street. But some question if Toronto should move ahead with renaming the thoroughfare.