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The California Independent Systems Operator CEO Elliot Mainzer, regarding the extremely high electricity demand across California and other western states as a brutal heat wave covers the area. The ISO may order utilities to impose rotating blackouts if the energy demand does not decrease. The last time shutdowns were implemented was August 2020, when outages, which lasted anywhere from 15 minutes to two and a half hours, affected about 800,000 homes and businesses. (Reuters — Sept. 6, 2022)
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Isabelle Boemeke of the group Save Clean Energy, commenting on legislation approved by California lawmakers to extend the life of the state's last-operating nuclear power plant. (NPR — Sept 2, 2022)
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Beatrice Gilmore, who lives in Jackson, Miss., when asked what she would do when she and her sister received a case of water on Wednesday. Historic rain and flooding led to a drop in pressure at Jackson's main water-treatment plant Monday. That has left people with just a trickle of water — Gilmore says hers is "brownish" — or none at all. (NPR — Sept. 1, 2022)
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Srivan Krishna, regarding the Carroll school district’s decision to reject two signs that stated “In God We Trust,” with one sign’s text displayed over a rainbow background and the other’s text in Arabic, claiming that it already had enough signs for its buildings. Krishna was testing the Southlake, Texas, school district and the recently adopted Texas law that requires public schools to display a poster bearing the U.S. motto, “In God We Trust”; the law requires that the posters include both the state and U.S. flags and that the schools do not pay for them. (NPR — Aug. 31, 2022)
