Alexa St. John

Sun News Media

Need for speed? Driving above the speed limit costs you — and doesn't actually save much time

By: Alexa St. John

Racing to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money and sends harmful emissions into the air, it

The Independent

How to recycle old phones and electronics – and why doing so is good for your wallet

By: Kiki Sideris

Components such as steel, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, plastics and even glass, can be recovered and reused

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Rare hurricane blows by Hawaii

By: Alexa St. John

Big Island had been threatened with first direct hit from a hurricane in 155 years

MSN

Hurricane Lala leaves one dead as 'enormous storm' hits Hawaii

By: Alexa St. John, Ed White

Hurricane Lala skirted Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday without making landfall, though it lashed the region with fierce winds and heavy downpours

The Globe and Mail

Lala downgrades to tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across the Hawaiian islands

By: Alexa St. John, Ed White

More than 60,000 households were without power, along with three hospitals that switched to generator power, Governor says

MSN

Lala weakens to tropical storm, but rain and winds still battering Hawaii

By: Alexa St. John, Ed White

Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm Sunday after its eyewall skirted Hawaii without making landfall, but it continued to punish the state

Associated Press

Pulling from ancient cooling principles, the ‘swamp cooler' remains important today

Before air conditioning spread across the United States, before temperatures increased and the world heated up, people in the Southwest sweltered.

TriCityRecordNM

Pulling from ancient cooling principles, the 'swamp cooler' remains important today

By: Alexa St. John

Before air conditioning spread across the United States, before temperatures increased and the world heated up, people in the Southwest sweltered. Dry heat and minimal relief were day-to-day life, and...

AP News

Trump administration relied on flawed logic to justify scrapping vehicle emission rules, study says

By: Alexa St. John

A new study contends the Trump administration relied on flawed logic to justify scrapping vehicle emissions standards, making errors it accounted for fuel savings, the price of technology and mileage.

Telegraph Herald

American Objects: Pulling from ancient cooling principles, the 'swamp cooler' remains important today

By: Alexa St. John

The evaporative cooler was an essential invention perfected in the U.S. before central air conditioning became mainstream. In 1908, Oscar Palmer refined what’s been nicknamed the swamp cooler, an energy-efficient