The Tesla Semi ran off the road on Interstate 80 near Emigrant Gap, Calif., around 3 a.m. Aug. 19. No one was injured, but the vehicle caught fire and ignited nearby brush, closing the freeway in both directions for several hours.
Stellantis said it was aware of the incident but could not provide further details.
State regulators in Tallahassee approved an agreement Wednesday that will increase the base rates on nearly 2 million Floridians’ Duke Energy bills, though by much less than the company originally requested.
Governor-appointed members of the Florida Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, praised the 338-page settlement agreement as a fair compromise between the needs of the utility and the public.
After months of intense behind-the-scenes negotiations between Duke, groups representing residential customers, industrial plants, environmentalists and more, the final agreement did not draw opposition from any parties.
That was a rare show of unity — particularly after the case began, in the words of Office Public Counsel lawyer Charles Rehwinkel, as “highly controversial and at times bitterly contested.”
In its original request, Duke had sought an $820 million increase over three years, in addition to a rate of shareholder profit well above the national average. In the final agreement, it ended up with a $262 million increase, plus up to $141 million for a dozen new solar plants as they are completed.
Richard N. Velotta | Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS)
LAS VEGAS — Harry Reid International Airport had the most flight delays of any major U.S. airport in the 2023 fiscal year, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a recent report.
The FAA, which uses data collected from air traffic controllers nationwide, said there were 29,763 flight delays at Reid that fiscal year — more than 9,500 more delays that the second-highest airport, New York’s LaGuardia International Airport. The Reid total also is more than twice the number recorded in the 2022 fiscal year and more than five times greater than the number averaged between fiscal years 2017-19.
A Reid representative said that many factors come into play for the numerous flight delays at Las Vegas’ airport, including a major runway renovation.
“It includes weather conditions, not just in Southern Nevada but across the nation that can create a domino effect with flights arriving and departing at LAS,” said Monika Bertaki, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Department of Aviation.
Fifteen years into the modern-day push to develop self-driving vehicles, standards and best practices are still under development, regulations are fuzzy and incomplete, and safety benchmarks don’t exist.