Report overstates environmental cancer risk, group says - TwinCities.com

A dire government report on cancer risks from chemicals and other hazards in the environment has drawn criticism from the American Cancer Society, which says government experts are overstating their case.

Cold temperatures set records around Utah | Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Alpine, Brigham City and Brigham Young University all set or tied record low maximum temperature readings Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.

Alpine shivered at 46 degrees to break the 1975 record for May 6 of 48 degrees. Brigham City was 45 degrees, compared with its 47-degree record set in 1965.

BYU tied a May 6, 1917, record by only climbing to 50 degrees Thursday.

Sen. Graham Officially Backs Away From Climate Change Legislation « The Speakers Lobby

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., officially backed away from climate change legislation Friday, citing the current political environment will make it “impossible” to pass the bill.

Snow falling in northern Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS -- Snow is already falling in northern Minnesota along U.S. Highway 2 from Grand Forks through Bemidji and east into Duluth. Two to four inches of accumulation is possible in the arrowhead by Saturday morning.

Electric car drivers fear being stranded with flat battery - Times Online

The era of carefree motoring may soon be over, according to a study which reveals that drivers of the new generation of electric cars are plagued by nagging fears of being left stranded by a flat battery.

They narrow their horizons and rarely venture far from home, abandoning the old notion of the freedom of the open road.

A six-month trial involving 264 drivers found that almost all experienced “range anxiety” and travelled only short distances.