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ATLANTA -- With the latest major storm set to make its presence felt in Metro Atlanta, Arborist Robert Driskill is expecting a busy week. p div class="alignleft" style="align:left; padding:10px;" ...
Hurricane Irene is barreling down on the U.S., a monster storm packing winds of more than 100 miles per hour as it batters the Bahamas. In the next few days, the storm could hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina, or even the Mid-Atlantic and New England states. p ...
8/9/2011 - Diesel Drops Steeply; Oil Hits Lowest Price This Year National on-highway diesel prices dropped 4 cents from last week, landing at $3.897, while crude prices fell Monday to their lowest this year. It was the second consecutive weekly drop for diesel prices, according to the Department of Energy's weekly fuel price report. Prices ...
During a wide-ranging interview with Paul Watson today, the head honcho for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, answering a question about his stable of ships, touched on the subject of renaming one of them. ...
Two National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) scientists, Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni and Dattatraya H Dethe, have been selected as young associates of the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2011-14. ...
Roadrunner Shuttle First Ventura County Business to Adopt ROUSH CleanTech Propane Autogas Technology
California ground transportation company Roadrunner Shuttle and Limousine Service is driving green' airport service home as it becomes the first of its kind in Ventura County to adopt propane autogas as its alternative fuel of choice. Propane autogas is a cleaner-burning, domestically produced fuel choice that reduces harmful emissions that contribute to poor air quality. ...
"I was in an awful building," he said. "I realized we got lucky in those circumstances. ... I had no way of getting out of that building if it started to collapse," said von Bereghy, 43, who moved to Bainbridge Island in 1997. ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To aid customers and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Sunday's devastating tornado, Verizon Wireless is sending three temporary cell towers to provide emergency wireless calling capacity and coverage in and around Joplin, Mo. ...
As the Mississippi reaches its high point in Memphis and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees. ...
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. Powerful storms that swept through the nation's midsection have pushed river levels to dangerous heights and are threatening to flood several towns in Missouri and elsewhere. ...