Tag: environment
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Opinion: ‘Oppenheimer’ gives investors another reason to be bullish about nuclear energy
[ad_1] One of the hottest movies of the summer is the staggeringly good biopic “Oppenheimer,” about the man who oversaw the frantic race to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug 6, 1945 was a fission-style device. This also happens to be the same basic…
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Deal inked to keep Colorado River flowing — a key source of California’s water
[ad_1] Arizona, California and Nevada advanced a proposed plan to cut their use of drought-ravaged Colorado River water for drinking, washing and hydropower over the next three years. Negotiations around the plan announced Monday have been hard-fought, dividing the states because of big differences in their population size and water use, such as for California’s…
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Is the labor market too hot for the Fed? Some economists say no.
[ad_1] Some economists are drawing the battle lines between the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes and future U.S. economic growth. The U.S. created 253,000 new jobs in April, surpassing the 180,000 forecast by economists polled by the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% from 3.5%, the government said Friday. “While there… [ad_2]…
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The labor market is strong. So why are there fewer job openings?
[ad_1] Job applicants had fewer jobs to apply for in March, compounded by a drop in the number of small businesses hiring. Job openings fell to 9.6 million in March, the lowest number since April 2021, and down from a revised 10 million in February, the Labor Department said this week. Total job openings in…
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10 Earth Day actions beyond recycling that get results
[ad_1] Officially, it’s a single day on the calendar every year — Earth Day, each April 22. By now, nearly every industry — from fast-food chains to grocery stores to cosmetics lines and luxury autos — along with dozens of tree-loving, plastic-banning nonprofits, are part of a week or month’s worth of promotions and education…
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As Indiana plastics facility burns, questions rise over recycling-center safety
[ad_1] As the fire at an Indiana plastics-recycling storage facility burned into its third day Thursday and officials scrambled to calm evacuated residents and measure air quality, larger safety questions emerged across a nation that relies on recycling to help offset the impact of teeming landfills and littered waterways. Are recycling centers — challenging to…