Fall safety continues to be the top job site hazard, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Top 10 Safety Violations report. This makes fall protection the top citation for the 12th year in a row, with 5,260 reported violations this fiscal year.
Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, presented the list at the National
Offshore wind has captured headlines recently, and much of that news has taken place on the East Coast, from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Now, its travelling west, with a wind lease auction scheduled for California.
On Oct. 18., the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale on December 6, 2022,
With mortgage prices peaking and Hurricane Ian’s destruction settling, mortgage application numbers have dropped.
An Oct. 5, 2022, report by The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said that mortgage application volume fell 14.2% from the previous week, reaching the lowest level since 1997.
“The 30-year fixed [interest] rate hit 6.75% last week, the highest rate since 2006,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s
Reminiscent of the Texas grid failure in February 2021 and the threat of rolling blackouts in California due to 2022’s hot summer, New England is bracing for power shortages and rolling blackouts in anticipation of the severe winter forecast.
The problem stems from New England’s over-dependence on a single fuel: liquefied natural gas (LNG). The primary fuel for home heating,
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is full-throttle on cutting emissions and reducing energy consumption with its Energy Earthshots program.
The term “Energy Earthshots,” coined by the DOE, denotes several different programs aimed at producing clean energy from various sources. For example, there are Hydrogen Shots, Carbon Negative Shots, Enhanced Geothermal Shots, Floating Offshore Wind Shots and Industrial Heat Shots.
As an important strategy in the pursuit of clean energy, storage capacity in the United States is on the rise. According to a recent study, the industry is experiencing record growth.
Released in September 2022 by market research firm Wood Mackenzie, in conjunction with the American Clean Power Association, the U.S. Energy Storage Monitor quantifies energy storage capacity across the
