Winter heating costs seen to cripple 27 million families
Consumer groups warn soaring heating bills this winter could rise as much as 50 percent from last year, threatening more than 27 million low and moderate income families. Experts say many will have to heat, eat, or pay the rent as costs surge in the Northeast and Midwest.
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Mercury
Midwest
Stephen Brobeck
Consumer Federation of America
Meg Power
Economic Opportunity Studies
Governors press for regional electricity price cap
In Denver AP reports U S Energy Secretary Bill Richardson extended a week long order forcing western producers to supply California and urged Western governors to back a regional wholesale price cap. Some governors doubted the plan while FERC chair Hoecker warned cap would offer little relief as California faces shortages and price spikes amid an emergency Western Governors Association meeting. California Governor Gray Davis stayed away to handle the crisis.
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California
U.S. Energy
Bill Richardson
Richardson
Jim Hoecker
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Hoecker
Western Governors Association
Gray Davis
Waddling explains penguin short leg efficiency study
UC Berkeley researchers Timothy Griffin and Rodger Kram report in Nature that penguin waddle uses a pendulum-like gait to conserve energy. They note short legs force leg muscles to generate rapid force, making walking costly despite the playful shuffle.
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Timothy Griffin
UC Berkeley
Griffin
Rodger Kram
University of Colorado, Boulder
Nature
Kram
Rhode Island clears 14 acre tire mountain after 34 year cleanup
The last of about 6 million tires was removed from a former toxic waste dump site near Providence, once a landmark 14 acres and up to 25 feet high. Authorities feared wildfire and pollution, mobilizing oil fire teams and 600 National Guardsmen as the 34 year cleanup wrapped. Billy Davis owned the site, which fuel dreams and regulators mocked. The tires will be burned or recycled in Maine pulp mills, leaving a barren patch in a forested area 11 miles north of Providence.
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R.I
Providence
Westley
Calif
Superior Court
Frank Williams
Maine
Flight attendant provoked enraged passenger on Southwest flight
FBI report describes 19 year old Jonathan Burton pacing the aisle on Southwest Flight 1763 from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. Passengers tackled him after he smashed toward the cockpit and brawled as a flight attendant worsened the scene. Burton was restrained by up to eight men, lost consciousness, and autopsy confirmed suffocation.
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Salt Lake City
Southwest Airlines
FBI
Jonathan Burton
Southwest
Las Vegas
Burton
Miracle Baby Survives Womb-Torn Wreck in Kentucky
In southern Kentucky a mother eight months pregnant dies when a tractor-trailer crashes and wrecks through an embankment. The baby, named Patrick by the rescuer who found him, was torn from the womb but survived and lies in hospital care. EMT Jeff Landers calls the infant a miracle and predicts the child will be special.
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Louisville
Patrick
Kentucky
Jeff Landers
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