The Global Wind Energy Council points to incentives for renewable energy development in the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States, and policies in Europe and China that further expand the role of renewables.
Carol Semple
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A quarter of the world’s population lacks safe drinking water, UN says
With agriculture using 70% of all water globally, an expert says, irrigation for crops has to be more efficient – as it is in some countries that now use drip irrigation, which saves water.
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Eight dolphins dead after stranding in New Jersey
The dolphins have been taken to the New Jersey State Lab for necropsies to try to help biologists understand why the mammals stranded on a beach.
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What made Beethoven sick? DNA from his hair offers clues
Scientists find a genetic risk for liver disease, plus a liver-damaging hepatitis B infection in the last months of his life.
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Murdaugh trial gives an 2015 unsolved death investigation a boost
Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of a two-lane South Carolina road on July 8, 2015.
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Florida’s DeSantis to expand ‘Don’t Say Gay’ ban to all students through high school
The Republican governor has leaned heavily into cultural divides on his path to an anticipated White House bid, aggressively pursuing a conservative agenda that targets what he calls the insertion of inappropriate subjects in schools.
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Federal Reserve raises key rate by a quarter-point despite bank turmoil
The Fed says the U.S. banking system is ‘sound and resilient,’ but warns that the financial upheaval stemming from the collapse of 2 major banks is ‘likely to result in tighter credit conditions’ and ‘weigh on economic activity, hiring and inflation.’
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Manhattan DA postpones scheduled Trump grand jury session, sources say
The panel is is probing Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier.
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Five people at New Hampshire campground developed Legionnaire’s disease
The 5 had stayed at the Meredith Woods ands Clearwater Campground in Meredith.
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A deadly fungal infection is spreading in hospitals. Here’s what to know
Candida auris is a drug-resistant fungus that ‘presents a serious global health threat,’ according to the CDC.