WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday granted California the legal authority to require that half of all garbage trucks, tractor-trailers, cement mixers and other heavy vehicles sold in the state must be all-electric by 2035, an aggressive plan designed to clean up the worst polluters on the road. The pioneering truck rule will go…
A late-winter nor’easter is expected to bring widespread heavy, wet snow, rain and gusty winds to parts of the Northeast that had otherwise had a largely snowless season starting Monday night and lasting into Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy snow rates and strong winds will likely produce dangerous or near-impossible travel in…
The Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala., identified five areas in the state of likely tornado damage. It said it would not be able to carry out damage assessments until Wednesday because of ongoing threats, including a tornado warning that was in place on Tuesday afternoon in eastern Alabama, near Roanoke. On Tuesday evening, a tornado…
Karla Nemeth, the director of the California Department of Water Resources, the agency that manages the Golden State’s most precious resource, said that California must toe a fine line during intense winter storms. On one hand, the state desperately needs winter rain and snow to replenish water supplies before the annual dry spell that often…
More heavy rain was expected on Tuesday morning in Kentucky, potentially complicating efforts to find hundreds of people still unaccounted for days after severe flooding left at least 37 dead. Nearly two million people across parts of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia were under a flood watch through the morning, when quick-moving storms were forecast…