Higher Percentage of California Pot Products Pass Safety Tests December 19, 2018 By MICHAEL R. BLOOD A higher percentage of California marijuana products are passing strict safety tests, but the sudden closing of a lab that...
Casinos Proposed as Way to Subsidize Texas Wind Insurance December 19, 2018 A Texas lawmaker has proposed subsidizing the state’s underfunded windstorm insurance and flooding assistance by building casinos in coastal counties....
Vehicle Cyber Attacks Rise Six-Fold, Exposing Digital Weakness December 19, 2018 By Stefan Nicola Hopping into an Uber or a Car2Go is a great way to get around. Unfortunately, hackers agree, exploiting weaknesses in...
Rain Set to Drench Northeast Over Christmas Holiday December 18, 2018 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.S. Northeast is more apt to get mud this Christmas than snow. A storm system approaching the region this...
South Dakota Researcher Developing Fire Risk Estimation Tool December 18, 2018 South Dakota’s state fire meteorologist is part of a coalition using satellite technology to notify fire managers when fuels are...
Speed a Factor in Fatal Arizona Crash of Medical Helicopter December 18, 2018 By TERRY TANG Three years after a medical helicopter crashed and killed the pilot and a nurse outside Phoenix, Ariz., a paramedic who...
Report Says 2016 California Wildfire Fight too Costly December 18, 2018 By BRIAN MELLEY When a wildfire burned across Big Sur two years ago and threatened hundreds of homes scattered on the scenic hills,...
California Alleges PG&E Falsified Pipeline Safety Records December 18, 2018 Regulators on Friday accused one of California’s largest utilities of falsifying safety documents for natural gas pipelines for years following...
‘Changing Climate’ Intensifying Disasters Per Texas Report December 18, 2018 By PAUL J. WEBER Powerful natural disasters in Texas on the scale of Hurricane Harvey‘s deadly destruction last year will become more frequent because...
Opinion: More People Means More Cars, and More Deaths December 18, 2018 By Nathaniel Bullard, Bloomberg Opinion More than 1.3 million people died in road traffic accidents in 2016, an all-time high, according to the World Health...