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On Thursday, an American Airlines plane slid off a snowy taxiway in Rochester, New York, after a flight from Philadelphia. Thousands of residents have been without power since Saturday in parts of Oregon’s Willamette Valley after an ice storm caused extensive damage. “We do have a generator that we got last year, and right now it’s running an oil plug-in heater," she said. In Mississippi’s capital city, an estimated 12,000 customers were dealing with low water pressure Thursday, another setback for Jackson’s long-troubled water system. ___Associated Press journalists Jonathan Mattise and Kristin M. Hall in Nashville and Adrian Sainz in Memphis contributed.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Parts of the Pacific Northwest were under an ice storm warning through Wednesday morning, threatening to add to the damage brought by a powerful winter storm that hit the region over the weekend. The forecast came as much of the United States coped with bitter weather that in some places put electricity supplies at risk. As of Tuesday night, about 52,000 people in Oregon still remained without power, according to the website poweroutage.us. County officials extended a weather state of emergency until noon Wednesday and decided to keep a record 12 overnight emergency weather shelters open for an additional night. “The real limitation for us right now is staffing,” said Dan Field, director of the joint county-city homelessness office.

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☆ A couple spent 2 months building a floating tiny home on a lake. They say they'll never go back to living on land.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Sarah Spiro and Brandon Jones live in a floating tiny house on a North Carolina lake. Brandon Jones and Sarah Spiro built a floating home on a lake. Building a new floating homeThere are strict rules about building floating houses on Fontana Lake, which is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA. An overview of the bedroom and the living room of the floating house. But now that she's living in a floating house, the sailboat idea no longer seems so far-fetched.

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Steam feeding into the Unit 3 turbine generator of the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Ga. “The United States is now committed to trying to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy,” John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, said in September. One recent Pew survey found that 57 percent of Americans favor more nuclear plants, up from 43 percent in 2016. A NuScale engineer gave a tour of a control room simulator, modeling the company’s plans for new nuclear reactors, in 2013. “The demand for clean energy is almost unprecedented,” said Maria Korsnick, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.

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The advisers said the standoff between Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the White House has already raised taxpayer borrowing costs through weak Treasury auctions and high yields for short-dated Treasury Bills, while ratings agencies are already publishing analyses of potential U.S. ratings downgrades. They said the Treasury market's role as the backbone of the entire financial system would be called into question, leaving the debt market without a benchmark pricing firm and causing investors to pull back from fixed-income and equity markets. Their letter was distributed after President Joe Biden met with Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the White House with no signs of softening their positions, though they agreed to continue talks. The advisers said that following the banking turmoil that started in March, the debate over raising the debt limit is "reckless and irresponsible." A protracted negotiation would have short-term costs, but a default is an "unthinkable" event, the executives said.

☆ Why Blackouts, Power Outages Are Becoming More Common
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Taylor Dorrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Power outages have increased 64% from the early 2000s, and weather-related outages — many driven by the worsening climate crisis — have increased 78%. A record-breaking blizzard in Buffalo, New York, this winter caused power outages throughout the city, resulting in the deaths of 47 residents. In 2021, a heat wave led to power outages and the deaths of hundreds in the Pacific Northwest. While regional organizations might use fees to penalize companies for power outages, it's now much harder to pinpoint and hold a person or entity responsible. In the meantime, the climate crisis will continue to wreak havoc on an aging grid system that puts profits over reliability.

☆ A new nuclear reactor in the U.S. starts up. It's the first in nearly seven years
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

For the first time in almost seven years, a new nuclear reactor has started up in the United States. On Monday, Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the reactor. It's when the nuclear fission process starts splitting atoms and generating heat, Georgia Power said in a written announcement. However, because nuclear energy is generated without releasing carbon dioxide emissions, which cause global warming, the current increased sense of urgency in responding to climate change has given nuclear energy a chance at a renaissance. The cost associated with building nuclear reactors is a major barrier to a potential resurgence in nuclear energy, however.

☆ Career advice from a Fortune 500 CEO: ‘Go into places and experiences that make you uncomfortable’
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Now the CEO of financial services Fortune 500 company Edward Jones, Pennington grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, both her parents executives in their fields. Pennington went to the University of Virginia to study finance and ended up working in investment banking for 14 years before getting hired at Edward Jones in the year 2000. She became CEO in 2019 and is now one of just 9% of CEOs in the Fortune 500 who are women, according to the Women Business Collaborative. Here are four pieces of career advice Pennington has for those wanting to find success in their career, whether that's at the top of a trillion-dollar company or not. "Go into places and experiences that make you uncomfortable," she says, adding that, "that's where the growth comes.

☆ Dramatic video shows implosion of cooling towers at shuttered Kentucky coal plant
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

A dramatic video shows the intentional implosion of three cooling towers at a shuttered Kentucky coal plant. Video captured from multiple angles shows the implosion of the 435-foot cooling towers, conducted by the Tennessee Valley Authority on Thursday in order to clear the grounds for future use. The footage shows the towers slowly collapsing to the ground in clouds of dust. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which operated the Drakesboro plant, stopped using two of the towers in 2017, and the third in 2020, which effectively closed the plant after nearly 60 years. The implosion comes as the corporation plans to invest billions of dollars to fund "carbon-free, low-cost, reliable power" over the next several decades.

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