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Pakistani shopping mall blaze kills at least 10 people and injures 22 others
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A fire tore through a shopping mall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing at least 10 people and injuring 22 others, police and local officials said Saturday. The multi-story RJ Mall is in a commercial high-rise that also houses call...
UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
Earth is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed-upon international climate threshold, a United Nations report calculated. To have an even money shot at keeping warming to...
OSHA finds plant explosion that killed 1 person could have been prevented
BOSTON (AP) — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found an explosion that killed one worker at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts could have been prevented, and proposed nearly $300,000 in penalties. The May explosion at the Seqens plant in...
Work resumes at Montana mine where 24-year-old worker was killed in machinery accident
NYE, Montana (AP) — Work has resumed at a precious metals mine in south-central Montana a day after a 24-year-old worker died in an underground machinery accident, mine officials said. Noah Dinger of Post Falls, Idaho, died just before 1:30 a.m. Monday when he was operating a...
First-of-a-kind nuclear project is terminated in a blow to Biden's clean energy agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday, another blow to the Biden administration's clean energy agenda following cancellations last week of two major offshore wind projects. Oregon-based NuScale...
Residents sheltered in place for hours after chemical plant explosion in rural Texas injured worker
HOUSTON (AP) — A massive fire at a chemical plant in rural Texas on Wednesday sent a plume of black smoke into the sky as officials closed down a local highway and ordered residents to take shelter for several hours. Authorities had asked residents within a one-mile radius of a...
Offshore wind projects face economic storm. Cancellations jeopardize Biden clean energy goals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardizing the Biden administration’s goals of powering 10 million homes from towering ocean-based turbines by 2030 and...
Collapse of Kentucky plant being demolished at abandoned mine leaves 1 worker dead, another trapped
INEZ, Ky. (AP) — One man has died after he and a coworker were trapped beneath tons of concrete and steel when an 11-story building being demolished collapsed at an abandoned eastern Kentucky mine's coal preparation plant. The building at Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County...
Takeaways from the AP's investigation into aging oil ships
OKITIPUPA, NIGERIA (AP) — Until early last year, a rusting oil ship named the Trinity Spirit floated off the coast of Nigeria, pulling crude oil from the ocean floor. Then, last February, it exploded, collapsing into the ocean along with 40,000 barrels of oil. Five workers were...
Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world
OKITIPUPA, Nigeria (AP) — It was the dead of night when the ship caught fire, Patrick Aganyebi remembers, but the flames made it seem as bright as day. The explosion that night woke him and knocked him to the floor. He tucked his phone and his ID card in his pockets, strapped on a...
