Tri-City residents burn through triple the amount of energy over the winter months, and most of that’s due to space heating. “That means any heat lost is also money lost,” a FortisBC spokesperson said in a press release. So how can you trim those soaring heat bills and save money? The natural gas company recommends draft-proofing and sealing leaks, especially...
North American summers are hot. Sometimes spring and fall temperatures reach dangerous levels as well. Most summers see heat waves in one or more parts of the United States. Heat is one of the leading weather-related killers in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year and even more heat-related illnesses. In addition to the resources below, OSHA...
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James Fighting to Stop Rollback of Regulations Limiting Climate Change Pollutant Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Industry NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, joining a coalition of 24 states and municipalities, filed a lawsuit challenging the first of a set of rules issued by the Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminating controls on emissions of methane, volatile...
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2 June 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The heat generated by burning a fossil fuel is surpassed within a few months by the warming caused by the release of its carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere contributes...
