Texas power grid struggling to meet energy demands amid extreme heat wave
Extreme heat has pushed the state’s power grid to capacity in order to meet energy demands and their margins will stay tight as long as the high temperatures remain.
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- TODAY
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- Palm Beach Daily News
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Career fire lookout dies in McKinney Fire, Forest Service says
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Tourist boats marooned, farm land parched as drought lowers Europe's rivers
VILLERS-LE-LAC, France (Reuters) - Business for Francoise Droz-Bartholet has reduced to a trickle, just like stretches of the Doubs River straddling the French-Swiss border that her cruise boats usually ply. Water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs across western Europe are running low, or even dry, amid the severest drought in decades which is putting stress on drinking water supplies, hampering river freight and tourism and threatening crop yields. She now has to bus clients along the gorge to a starting point further upstream to a point in the river where there is enough water for her cruise boats to navigate.
- Idaho Statesman
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Emerald Tutu being developed to protect Boston neighborhoods from increased threat of flooding
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- AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
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Landmark US climate bill will do more harm than good, groups say
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- TODAY
Cincinnati Zoo Reveals Gender of Fiona the Hippo's New Sibling
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Strip mining aided deadly Kentucky flooding, ex-regulators say. They want an investigation
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