US running out of room to store oil; price collapse next?
The U.S. has so much crude that it is running out of places to put it, and that could drive oil and gasoline prices even lower in the coming months.
For police body cameras, big costs loom in storing footage
The rush to outfit police officers with body cameras after last summer’s unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, threatens to saddle local governments with steep costs for managing the volumes of footage they must keep for months or even years.
U.S. plants prepare long-term nuclear waste storage
Nuclear power plants across the United States are building or expanding storage facilities to hold their spent fuel — radioactive waste that by now was supposed to be on its way to a national dump.
Mormon-centric Utah epicenter for food storage
Towering grain silos overlook the main highway in Salt Lake City at the Mormon church’s Welfare Square. At grocery stores, there’s a whole section with large plastic tubs with labels that read, “Deluxe survivor 700.” Radio ads hawk long-term supplies of food with 25-year shelf lives.
Michigan growers trying to get apples to doze off
CENTRAL LAKE, Mich. — This year’s Michigan apple crop is expected to be 10 times as plentiful as last year’s puny output. While the big
Voice of the People: Brandon Presley
Say no to nuclear waste The news out of Jackson week before last that our governor and certain lobbying groups have been planning, behind the
Charlie Mitchell: Any hint of ‘nuclear’ merits a full, transparent response
OXFORD — There was a dust-up last week about whether Mississippi should ever-ever-ever become a home for nuclear waste. Guess what? Mississippi has been a
Bryant: Nuclear waste opponents ‘overreacting’
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant is interested in Mississippi getting in on “recycling” or reprocessing nuclear waste, and perhaps manufacturing components for reactors, not nuclear
Miss. nuclear waste plan sparks early opposition
The Mississippi Energy Institute is pushing for more exploration of storing and reprocessing used nuclear fuel in the state at the same time that one of the its congressmen is coming out against it.
Group pushes idea of nuclear storage in Miss.
JACKSON — A nonprofit group tied to energy businesses says Mississippi should consider becoming a storage place for used nuclear fuel. Representatives of the Mississippi
Fire consumes Corps of Engineers’ facility
They came from church, from work, from supper with their families. One by one, they spilled out into the chill night air, silhouettes back-lit by the raging inferno as they put on their turnout gear and faced the fire.