A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid. Government radio station Radio Rebelde quoted an energy official as saying that it could take at least 72 hours to restore operations at one of Cuba’s largest thermoelectric power plants, where a shutdown sparked the outage. The government’s electric utility said the outage affected people from the western town of Pinar del Rio to the central town of Camaguey. It is the second such outage to affect western Cuba in three months.
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Power failures and waist-high canyons of snow bedeviled parts of the Northeast in the aftermath of a massive storm that dumped piles on streets and sidewalks from Maryland Maine, even as fresh snowfall coated the region. Across the Northeast, the fallout from the storm persisted: In Rhode Island, where 3 feet (0.9 meters) of snow surpassed the record set in the Blizzard of 1978, people confronted a third straight day stuck at home as residential streets remained unplowed, trash pickup got postponed in some places and some schools went virtual. In Massachusetts, particularly in Cape Cod where nearly 145,000 were without power, utility crews worked 18-hour shifts to restore electricity.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change. The conservative-majority court took up the case Monday. The companies went to the Supreme Court after Colorado’s highest court allowed a lawsuit from Boulder to proceed. The companies say the lawsuits present a serious threat to the industry. President Donald Trump's Republican administration also urged the high court to block the case. The industry is facing dozens of lawsuits from state and local governments that argue the companies deceived the public about fossil fuels' contribution to climate change.
The utilities company has received numerous calls from customers reporting door-to-door solar installers who claim to work for LG&E.
It's the largest amount MSD can raise rates annually without asking Metro Council for approval.
Severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings were issued for Jefferson County throughout the evening as high winds and hail moved through the area.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Trees and storm debris fell onto homes, garages and streets across Louisville after severe storms moved through the …
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Thousands of people are without power after severe weather moved through the Louisville area on Sunday evening.
The LIHEAP Crisis Program will begin in January.
This is the first year the assistance fund ran out of money before summer ends.