Dominion Energy has made a final decision to permanently shutter 10 older and less-efficient generating units that can no longer compete profitably. The utility had previously put the units into cold storage, taking a wait-and-see approach on whether to bring them back online.
For all this talk about disposable plastics being so bad for environment, it seems absurd that New York City is proposing banning sale of natural fur. Natural fur, as the name suggests is a natural product of fur bearing animals, that are either farmed or harvested wildly. Fur harvesting is a sustainable business, that uses a renewable resource — the furs of species of animals that are resilient and warmth, that when cared for lasts much longer then disposable plastics coats and is biodegradable and non-toxic.
"But there are 130 businesses in the city that primarily sell fur – which employ up to 1,100 people, the industry estimates, and would be forced out of business if the ban goes through. That doesn’t count big department stores and high-end retailers, such as Bloomingdale’s and Saks, which sell fur apparel alongside other items. "
Centre County, Pa- Drivers on I-99 will soon see the speed limit increase over a 16-mile stretch of the highway. PennDOT plans to increase the speed limit from 55 to 65 miles per hour between the Gray's Woods exit and where the highway ends at the I-80 interchange near Bellefonte. PennDOT says the decision to increase the speed limit was supported by requested speed studies."
Probably that and the fact that drivers pretty much ignored that speed limit...
Similarly, sick bats can be diagnosed by their smellprints. Every bat species has a distinctive smellprint. Bats infected with the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) have different smellprints than healthy bats. Pd causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed more than six million bats since 2006. Electronic noses can differentiate Pd from related fungal species that grow on bat skins but are not pathogenic, as Wilson and his colleagues recently reported in the journal Sensors & Transducers.
