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Everett Sloane

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The Moss Landing battery plant has caught fire again after last year’s massive blaze

California’s new laws aim to stop data centers from pushing their power costs onto other customers

California warns flood insurance can take 30 days to kick in, and El Niño is coming

Forecasters put the odds of a very strong El Niño this winter above 90%

11 scorching places that hold Earth’s hottest temperature records, from California’s 134°F to 100.4°F above the Arctic Circle

A 1915 ash column from a California volcano rose 30,000 feet and drifted 200 miles to Nevada

11 US dam disasters, from Johnstown’s 2,209 dead to the spillway scare that forced 188,000 to flee

Two Texas sites reported radioactive sources that failed, one stuck open and one leaking

The first half of September was the hottest on record for dozens of US cities

The deepest trench in the Atlantic sits next to 4 million Americans in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Charleston sits on a seismic zone that produced a magnitude 7.3 quake with an aftershock 10 minutes later

One of Earth’s largest faults has sent eight tsunamis into a single Alaska bay in 2,000 years

Home electricity prices rose 4.9% in a year, and Hawaii’s jumped 25.4%

The Energy Department is spending $5.25 billion to squeeze 23 more gigawatts out of the aging grid

The Arctic’s 2026 summer ice low tied for the 10th-smallest ever measured

The Army is investigating how gun-sight parts holding radioactive tritium ended up listed on eBay

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