FirstEnergy has selected Accenture to manage the roll-out of smart meters to its customers across its four Pennsylvania-based utilities, including Met-Ed, Penelec, Penn Power and West Penn Power. Signed after approval from the ...
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has awarded $7.7m in funding under Act 13 for 25 companies and organizations that are switching to natural gas for their heavy-duty fleet vehicles. This funding is a part of the Natural Gas Energy ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has issued alert on certain Simply Lite brand dark chocolate products as they contain milk,which is not mentioned on the label. The agency found more than 3,500 parts per million of milk protein ...
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Allied Wire & Cable expands its hard-to-find mil-spec and aerospace cable stock, as well as its value-added capabilities with the purchase of all inventory and machinery from California-based distributor, Alan Wire. As of February 14, ...
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A team of University of Innsbruck researchers discovered that even simple systems, such as neutral atoms, can possess chaotic behavior, which can be revealed using the tools of quantum mechanics. The ground-breaking research, published in ...
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But you don't use the tiny screen; your phone projects a bright, clear image onto a ...
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before ...
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Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha), one of the nation's largest coal companies, Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries have agreed to spend an estimated $200 million to install and operate wastewater ...
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ATLANTA, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. flu activity continued to decrease during the week ending Feb. 22, but was high in Hawaii and Oklahoma, federal health officials say. The weekly flu report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
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Addressing client demand to ease the transition between clinical and commercial launch for blister products, Almac a leading provider in clinical and commercial contract packaging to the global Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries has ...
The US Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is set to offer nearly $8m in grants under the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program for the purchase or conversion of alternative fuel vehicles. School districts, municipal ...
Editor’s Note: As this podcast was being prepared, on 19 February 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced plans to issue network neutrality regulations under another section of the Telecommunications Act, and ...
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Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services says that making raw milk sales legal through individual cow-share or herd-share schemes could increase sporadic or isolated cases of illnesses from unpasteurized milk from almost none ...
Big Red Tomato Packers LLC of Fort Pierce, FL, is voluntarily issuing a voluntary, limited recall of 790 boxes of fresh tomatoes of lot 1106, sold in 20- and 25-pound units, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. Tomatoes from ...
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New research is lighting up yet another reason for women to quit smoking. In a study published online in the journal Menopause, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report the first evidence ...
Tags: White Woman, Genetic Variation, Menopause, Smoking