Meatpacking Plants Accounted for 334,000 U.S. COVID Cases

Meatpacking Plants Accounted for 334,000 U.S. COVID Cases

TUESDAY, April 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Meatpacking plants were the source of an estimated 334,000 COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to a new study. It puts the economic toll stemming from those cases at $11.2 billion. And study author Tina Saitone, a livestock and rangeland economics cooperative extension specialist at the … Read more

Delhi govt asks Centre to shut NCR’s thermal power plants to reduce pollution

Delhi govt asks Centre to shut NCR’s thermal power plants to reduce pollution

In his letter to Union Power Minister RK Singh, Satyendar Jain sought closure of all 11 thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR which he said will not lead to any reduction in power supplies. File photo of Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain (Photo Credits: PTI) Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain wrote a letter to Union Power … Read more

Punjab: Power outages to spike as farmers’ rail blockade cuts off thermal plants’ coal supply

Punjab: Power outages to spike as farmers’ rail blockade cuts off thermal plants’ coal supply

Punjab government has requested farmers who are staging an indefinite rail blockade in opposition to the Centre’s new agriculture laws, to spare goods trains since the state’s thermal power plants are now left with only two days of coal supply. Farmers blocking railway tracks at Devi Dass Pura village in Amritsar on October 7 (Photo … Read more