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While green advocates commonly use the terms renewable, sustainable, and net zero to describe their efforts, the dirty little secret is that much of the waste from solar panels and wind turbines is ending up in landfills. The current amounts of fiberglass, resins, aluminum and other chemicals – not to mention propeller blades from giant wind turbines – pose no threat current to local town dumps, but this largely ignored problem will become more of a challenge in the years ahead as the 500 million solar panels and the 73,000 wind turbines now operating in the U.S. are decommissioned and replaced.Greens insist…

(The Center Square) – The Nevada Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor has advanced a bill seeking to protect people who provide transgender patients with medical treatment.Senate Bill 171 is now heading to the Assembly floor after committee members passed it 9-5 last week. The bill previously made it through the state Senate.State Sens. James Ohrenschall and Melanie Scheible, both D-Las Vegas, introduced this legislation. Democrats hold majorities in both chambers of the Legislature.Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo has not issued a statement on whether he will sign SB 171 if it’s passed. In 2023, he vetoed SB 302, which have protected health care providers providing…

(The Center Square) – Louisiana is critical to the Trump administration’s energy plans, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.The Trump administration selected McNeese State University as the site for a new center of excellence.The Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has selected the Lake Charles-based university as its first National Center of Excellence for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Safety. It’s the first undergraduate institution in the U.S. to offer a certificate program in LNG Business. The university already offers its own LNG Center of Excellence.“Producing and exporting LNG is one of the most powerful ways we can unleash American…

Elon Musk is interviewed on CNBC from the Tesla headquarters in Texas.CNBCElon Musk said Tuesday that he expects Tesla and xAI will continue buying chips from semiconductor giants Nvidia and AMD, and possibly others.Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, which now owns social media platform X, has already installed 200,000 GPUs at its Colossus facility in Memphis, Tennessee, the Tesla CEO told CNBC’s David Faber on Tuesday. XAI is also planning a 1 million GPU facility outside Memphis, Musk said. He did not specify how many chips the company had already ordered and by which date they may be installed.”A few years ago,…

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — The United States sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries Monday on the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations.In the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, 38 Hondurans, including 19 children, disembarked from the charter flight carrying $1,000 debit cards from the U.S. government and the offer to one day be allowed to apply for legal entry into the U.S.U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to increase deportations substantially. Experts believe the self-deportation offer will only appeal to a small portion of migrants already…

(The Center Square) − The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 4-1 this week to halt a years-long effort to examine alternative electricity models that could give industrial and residential customers more choice in how they buy power.Monday’s decision effectively ends a push for what were termed “customer-centered options,” which aimed to open the state’s power market to greater competition and reduce rising costs for consumers.The only dissenting vote came from Commissioner Davante Lewis, who argued that the commission should continue examining ways to modernize Louisiana’s energy framework and avoid locking in steep rate increases.The vote came as Entergy Louisiana, the…

(The Center Square) – Money spent addressing opioid use disorder last year accounts for 5% of Pennsylvania’s GDP, according to a report from Avalere Health.The study used state and national data to analyze costs across federal, state, and local governments, businesses, households, society, and individuals and found that the crisis has cost more than $3.9 trillion nationally.Pennsylvania alone accounted for over $232 billion of that total.The grim figures reveal an opioid tax levied upon the entire country, one that came in three waves, beginning with the overprescription of pain medications like morphine and hydrocodone in the 1990s. It gave way…

(The Center Square) – Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday announced 22 new indictments in a widespread Medicaid scandal that reportedly cost taxpayers millions of dollars and left drug rehabilitation clients homeless.The scandal has involved convicted and alleged Phoenix scammers in multiple fraud cases concerning sober living homes, which serve clients undergoing drug rehabilitation.In the indictments, the state grand jury is charging Happy House Behavioral Health LLC, Hope of Life International Church and a long list of individuals with various forms of fraud. The 51 counts include fraudulently billing the taxpayer-funded Arizona Health Care Containment System. That’s the state’s name for Medicaid.The…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem mangled a response to a question about habeas corpus at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, referring to the constitutional right of due process as a “right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.” Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., asked Noem about the constitutional protection after noting that White House adviser Stephen Miller told reporters earlier this month the administration was “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the right to challenge an arrest or imprisonment.”I want to clarify your position,” Hassan asked. “What is habeas corpus?””Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional…

Google announces Android XR and their partnerships with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025.Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty ImagesWarby Parker shares surged 15.6% after Google announced a smart glasses partnership at the tech company’s annual I/O developer conference.Google has committed up to $150 million as part of the agreement. The company has put $75 million into product development costs and will invest as much as an additional $75 million into the glasses company if Warby meets “certain collaboration milestones,” the companies announced.Warby Parker said it plans…