Uber Wants to Sell You Train Tickets. And Be Your Bus Service, Too.
The ride-hailing company, craving growth, is looking to public transit for riders and revenue. Cities aren’t sure whether to welcome it.
Algae Bloom Fouls N.J.’s Largest Lake, Indicating Broader Crisis
Climate change has added urgency to the debates over stormwater management around Lake Hopatcong.
EIAâs new State Energy Portal includes New England energy data for state and regional comparisons
(Fri, 02 Aug 2019) EIAâs new <em>State Energy Portal</em> is a complementary tool for New England Dashboard users to access state-level information. The New England Dashboard focuses mostly on regional data. The new portal provides direct access to all state-level U.S. energy data with interactive, customizable views of more than 150 charts, tables, and maps. EIA integrated all data, analysis, maps, and rankings from the existing State Energy Profiles into the new portal.
What Kamala Harris Doesn’t Want to Be Asked at the Debate
In an extended interview, the California senator explains why she thinks litmus-test questions aren’t helpful and how she is approaching this campaign.
Some Very Specific Things the President Could Do to Help Baltimore
And many things past administrations have done to hurt it.
America’s Farmers, Reeling From Floods, Face a New Problem: No Water
The breach of an irrigation canal left more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming without water at a critical point in the growing cycle.
From Former Mental Hospital to Recreational Hub
Nearly two centuries after it was built, the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in Columbia is being converted into a mixed-use project known as the BullStreet District.
How to Save the Amazon Rain Forest
Countries in the Amazon Basin are falling behind on their targets to cut deforestation. Environmental enforcement combined with economic incentives could provide a way forward.
Working natural gas stocks are more than half full in all regions as the deficit to the five-year average declines
(Thu, 18 Jul 2019) The U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) weekly estimates of natural gas storage capacity utilization published on July 12, 2019, exceed 50% in all regions for the second straight week. EIA updates estimates of underground storage capacity utilization by region each week in the Natural Gas Storage Dashboard. EIA created this metric to help analysts easily assess how full natural gas storage stocks are by region. The utilization estimate measures the weekly volume of working gas in a region compared with the amount of working gas capacity in a region.
I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities
Sensor-equipped garbage cans sound cool, but someone still has to take out the trash.