The Boston Globe reports (here) that Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Pilgrim, mass., has had its safety rating downgraded after several unplanned shutdowns. The plant is now one of just three nuclear power reactors nationwide ranked in the next to lowest performance...

The IRS has ruled that a Vermont man who bought solar panels as part of a community solar project - a "solar farm" - can take the same tax credit that a person can have if they put the panels on their own roof. A story in the Burlington Free-Press (read it here) says...

Perhaps prodded by my light-hearted story Tuesday about whether Mt. Washington should be renamed Agiocochook, somebody has petitioned the White House to do just that, noting that George Washington owned 300 slaves, and "Allowing the George Washington's name on places...

Self-driving cars may be good or bad (they're a potential "threat multiplier" for terrorists, it seems) but at the moment they have one good effect: They're more polite toward bicyclists and pedestrians than cars piloted by carbon-based life forms. Or so says Vox:...

“It used to be that mussels were covering over half the space in the intertidal zone. More than 50 percent of the space and now they are covering typically less than 10 percent. They have gone from this species that basically defined the rocky coastline to being a...