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The Details on DST DST delivers the most benefits when the days are long, as they are during summer. If you recall from your high school Earth science class, seasons are reversed in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. When it's summer in North America, it's winter in South America and vice versa. That means DST rules must also be reversed. In the Northern Hemisphere, DST starts in the spring -- typically between March and April -- and concludes in the fall -- between September and November. In the Southern Hemisphere, DST begins between September and November and ends between March and Apr...

Provided Photo / WXXI News After it was announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the grand jury would not prosecute the officers involved in Daniel Prude's death, Duwaine Bascoe spent the next day processing what happened.  “The more you know, the angrier you become because you see the pattern over and over again,” said Bascoe. Bascoe, an attorney and member of Rochester Black Bar Association, said he had mixed feelings after hearing the decision. “As a black man, I expected this outcome,” said Bascoe. "As an attorney, I guess I was optimistic.”  Right after the...

Published: Friday, February 26, 2021 Energy collage. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive Book Images/Flickr (drafting sketches); jwigley/Pixabay (pump jack); MaxPixel (turbines); Tikilucas/Wikimedia Commons (coal plant) A new report from a congressionally established expert panel spells out 40 policy proposals to Congress, the Energy Department, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other state and federal authorities as the U.S. undertakes a rapid clean energy transition fraught with risk. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Internet Archive B...

The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions from its generation fleets if federal incentives can be aligned to deploy a suite of technologies to unlock the full capacity of transmission grids.   So says a new report from The Brattle Group, modeling the benefits of a set of "grid-enhancing technologies" across the wind-power-rich grids of Kansas and Oklahoma. According to its analysis, spending about $90 million to implement these technologies could yield a payback in less than a year, with ...