individuals and families in places once considered safe from natural catastrophes could lose crucial insurance protections while their natural disaster exposure expands or intensifies as global temperatures rise.
The Singapore-based company on Tuesday announced intentions to renovate and equip an existing 150,000-square-foot space just south of downtown Indianapolis to serve as its U.S. headquarters.
Ken Zagzebski, a senior vice president at AES Corp., will be making a return engagement to the top spot at the Indianapolis utility formerly known as Indianapolis Power & Light.
Many residents complained about a lack of communication about the project and the potential for groundwater contamination and accidents that could release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The U.S. government’s most ambitious plan ever to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles faces uncertainty over both about how realistic it is and whether it goes far enough.
Duke Energy Corp.’s $3.5 billion Edwardsport plant was costly to build because of its ability to produce gas from coal. But the plant generated all of its electricity from natural gas in April, May and June.
The average price for a gallon of regular-grade gas in the United States reached $3.80 on Wednesday, 26 cents more than a month ago, according to data from AAA.
New federal rules governing the energy efficiency of lighting systems went into full effect Tuesday, effectively ending the sale and manufacture of bulbs that trace their origin to an 1880 Thomas Edison patent.
State and not-for-profit utility consumer advocates filed a joint petition on July 11 asking the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to investigate the utility’s “practices and procedures for storm outage restoration.”
For decades, Hoosier activists have been fighting what they view as improper forest management plans by government agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, even as both agencies claim to be doing what is best for the state’s forests.
President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says.
Seven major automakers say they will share in a multi-billion dollar investment to build “high power” charging stations with 30,000 plugs in urban areas and along travel corridors.
The Indiana Builders Association said the Supreme Court ruling provides builders and developers “more certainty in the federal permitting process,” and called the decision “a win for common-sense regulations and housing affordability.”
Kristina Lund’s departure means that AES Indiana, formerly known as Indianapolis Power & Light Co., will have gone through five presidents in the past eight years, with some of them lasting less than one year.
Parts of the U.S. Northeast, Midwest and South, as well as the Great Plains, were forecast to reach air quality levels Monday that are unhealthy for vulnerable people, including Indianapolis.
Fischer Farms will use the funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its own environmentally friendly initiatives and help other farmers adopt regenerative farming practices.
State and not-for-profit utility consumer advocates have asked state regulators to investigate the utlity after a recent storm left some customers without power for nearly a week.
The new rules would almost completely prohibit lead in dust in older buildings. The only contamination allowed would be the lowest levels that current removal efforts can’t eliminate, the agency said.
A rule announced Tuesday will impose a 40% overall reduction in HFCs starting next year, part of a global phaseout designed to slow climate change.
In the United States, 57 million people were exposed to dangerous heat on Tuesday.
