Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
NEW YORK (AP) — A threat that’s been hanging over the economy is starting to look a lot less menacing.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmentalists are continuing their push to see that a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is closed.
The U.S. government has adopted the first set of comprehensive changes in the emergency planning program for communities near nuclear power plants since its creation after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil dropped to a six-month low Tuesday on concern that economic uncertainty in Europe could hurt demand for crude.