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Reply (Shutterstock) MEDFORD, MA The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Massachusetts state experienced 4.17 hours without power in 2019 0.53 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA. ....
Reply (Shutterstock) SEEKONK-SWANSEA, MA The monumental power failure in Texas caused by unseasonable cold showed how extreme weather can push an electric grid to the brink. The average U.S. power customer loses electricity for 1.5 to 2 hours annually even before extreme weather events are taken into account, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As the Texas experience showed, hurricanes, snowstorms, heat waves and other extreme weather events can make such outages dramatically worse. Customers in Massachusetts state experienced 4.17 hours without power in 2019 0.53 fewer hours than the national average of 4.7 hours in 2019, which is the most recent information available, according to the EIA. ....
TAUNTON A new gasification facility, meant to deal with the region s sludge, has been proposed to built on the site of Taunton s defunct landfill. It would be owned and run by Aries Clean Technologies a Tennessee-based company whose facilities, one in Tennessee and one soon-to-open in New Jersey, take sewage sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants and turn it into biochar through a gasification process. Aries s plan boasts financial boons for the city, especially after the closure of the landfill on East Britannia Street last year. But the city has received a letter of opposition from a conservation advocacy group about the potential environmental and health impacts, giving some in city government pause. ....
Pixabay BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A stabbing victim who had to wait 20 minutes for help while watching her mom die will not be allowed to sue her Massachusetts hometown over the delay. The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled for the City of Taunton in the wrongful death case filed by Kathleen Slavin, who was stabbed by an intruder and called 9-1-1. But Taunton’s fire truck went to the wrong address and did not get to Slavin and her mother for 20 minutes after the call. An ambulance arrived 10 minutes after the fire truck. Ultimately, Kathleen’s mother died after she was taken to a hospital. ....