By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The White House is poised to announce the winners of a $7 billion federal competition to produce and deliver hydrogen fuel, a key component of its clean energy program. The Philadelphia area and West Virginia among those selected, according to a person familiar with the program.
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West Maui began reopening Sunday to visitors just two months after a wildfire devastated the town of Lahaina. The reopening did not come without outrage from some residents, many of whom signed a petition to delay the reopening as families continue to struggle to “find shelter, provide for their children’s education, and cope with emotional trauma,” according to
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021, according to a United Nations report. More than 113 million displacements of children will occur in the next three decades, estimated the UNICEF report released Friday,
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By Kevin Vu, The Texas Tribune Oct. 2, 2023 “Texas drought has deepened amid this year’s brutal heat” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Independent School District is receiving an $800,000 grant to reduce its carbon footprint. The money comes from the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Governmental Alternative Fuel Fleet Grant Program. The state government established the program to support local entities as they become more eco-friendly. That includes transitioning to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Residents living in the Montana Vista area have been asked to evacuate after a massive fire at a recycling plant fills their neighborhoods in smoke. Residents ABC-7 spoke to say they were asked to evacuate at around 3 p.m. and have since been in their cars until they are allowed back
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Update: The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office says residents near the fire are now being evacuated. EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Emergency crews are responding to a massive fire in Far East El Paso Tuesday afternoon. The smoke can be seen from miles around, according to multiple ABC-7 viewers. The El Paso and Horizon Fire
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HONOLULU (AP) — The alert level on Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, was downgraded Monday with no infrastructure threatened and no threat of significant ash emission into the atmosphere outside a limited area within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The downgrade came one day after the volcano began erupting again, according
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By Erin Douglas and Yuriko Schumacher, The Texas Tribune Sept. 7, 2023 “Texas just recorded its second hottest summer on record” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief,
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HONOLULU (AP) — After a visit to a warehouse where Hawaiian Electric Company is housing power poles and electrical equipment that may be key to the investigation of last month’s devastating fires on Maui, lawyers for Lahaina residents and business owners told a court Tuesday that cable TV and telephone companies share responsibility for the disaster because
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Water is being fined more than $2 million for a wastewater spill in 2021. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is ordering El Paso Water to pay the fine after the Frontera Force Main water emergency, which forced the utility to discharge approximately 1.2 billion gallons of wastewater
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(CNN) — Hawaiian Electric Company said that power lines falling in high winds seem to have caused a fire during the early morning of August 8, but power lines in West Maui had been de-energized for more than six hours by the time a second afternoon fire began in the Lahaina area. The company made the
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (KVIA) — Ranchers in Hudspeth County say that while the Borderland has seen small relief from recent rains, this year’s lack of rainfall and extreme heat has been nothing short of brutal. It’s been affecting infrastructure such as the power grid, and hampering crops. ABC-7 recently reported on the delayed harvest from
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(CNN) — A hidden shipwreck from world war one has been revealed at the bottom of a Texas river thanks to low rainfall and a summer heat wave. The wreck in the Neches River was found last week by a man jet skiing in the area. The Texas Historical Commission says they have known about
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To identify the most disaster-prone states in the country, MoneyGeek analyzed 20 years of disaster declarations data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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By MELINA WALLING Associated Press The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and drought. Jackson watched this summer as the insects chewed through a 35-acre pasture she badly needs for hay;
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Pasoan and Red Cross volunteer Humberto “Beto” Flores gets ready to head to Hawaii in the coming weeks to help with relief operations for those affected during the Maui Wildfires. At least 114 people died in the fires, with that number expected to rise as about 850 people are still
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By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Researchers in heavily drilled Pennsylvania are adding to a body of evidence suggesting links between the natural gas industry and certain health problems. In the reports released Tuesday evening, University of Pittsburgh researchers found what they called significant associations between gas industry activity and two ailments:
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By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California’s only native sunfish, Sacramento perch, was once so abundant it was a regular staple in San Francisco’s markets. But its numbers declined with the introduction of non-native fish in the early 20th century and today it exists in little more than a couple dozen isolated
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The U.S. agency that sets workplace safety standards is under growing pressure to issue a federal rule that would protect workers from dangerously high temperatures. On July 26, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) cosponsored a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate to increase federal protection for workers in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — If you live in Las Cruces, you probably spend a fair bit of time looking up at the sky, wondering “where is the rain?!” And you would be correct. The National Weather Service says Las Cruces is substantially below normal for precipitation for the year. It says data from
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Anyone who’s set foot outside in the borderland over the past few weeks knows… it’s been hot! According to the National Weather Service El Paso Station, Las Cruces broke the record this month for the longest streak of triple digit days. The city experienced 34 days of 100 or
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Update: The Las Cruces Fire Department has extinguished the landfill fire by 2 p.m. Thursday. “Solid Waste and Las Cruces Fire Department crews will continue to monitor the green waste landfill for potential rekindling of debris,” a City of Las Cruces spokesperson added in a statement. “The Foothills Landfill, at 555 S. Sonoma Ranch Blvd.,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A landfill fire, which officials say was caused by a lightning strike, has been reportedly causing problems for nearby residents. The fire started Friday night and, despite efforts from the Las Cruces Fire Department and Solid Waste Department, it continues to burn right now. The fire will likely burn
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Lightning struck twice in southern New Mexico, causing two separate fires, this weekend. The first happened at a Las Cruces landfill, the other in the Lincoln National Forest. The first strike happened late Friday night at the Foothills Landfill on the 500 block of Sonoma Ranch Boulevard, Las Cruces
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — With a recent spree of fires happening in Juarez, residents across the Borderland have raised concerns about the smoke caused by those fires, as well as the continuing heat wave that has put us under an ABC-7 First Alert. More than eight fires at the Juarez landfill, the recent fire at
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — After hundreds, if not thousands of borderland residents have shown their concerns about the current conditions Benito is living in at Juarez’s Parque Central, a Texas wildlife sanctuary is offering to take him in. There’s a petition here that has garnered almost 140,000 signatures from all over the world. The Wild
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A landfill in Juarez is on fire again, according to our news partners, Channel 44. This is the sixth time this year that a Juarez landfill has burned. The last reported fire happened just five days ago. In the past, Juarez landfill fires have created smoke that has caused respiratory issues
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Tuesday, the Juarez’s Relleno Sanitario, often referred to simply as the Juarez Landfill, caught fire again, just after 2 a.m. According to the Commander of the Juarez Civil Protection Department, this is the landfill has caught fire, causing large amounts of smoke to waft over the border and into El
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The area of Nimitz and Carolina in El Paso’s Lower Valley is as picturesque as it is historical. The area is home to one of the oldest pecan groves in the city, from the 1930s and 40s. In fact many of the trees in the area are older than the
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