The stakes are also higher for international students as the federal government moves to
Police said they do not consider the fire suspicious, and the London Fire Brigade said its investigation would focus on the substation’s electrical distribution equipment.Still, the huge impact of the fire left authorities facing questions about Britain’s
, much of which has been privatized since the 1980s. The center-left Labour government has vowed to improve the U.K.'s delay-plagued railways, itsand its energy network, promising to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy independence through investment in wind and other renewable power sources.“The last 40, 50 years we’ve tried to make services more efficient,” said Harris. “We’ve stripped out redundancy, we’ve simplified processes. We’ve moved towards a sort of ‘just in time’ economy. There is an element where you have to make sure you’re available for ‘just in case.’ You have to plan for things going wrong.”
for international travel, and saw 83.9 million passengers last year.Chief executive Thomas Woldbye said he was “proud” of the way airport and airline staff had responded.
“The airport didn’t shut for days. We shut for hours,” he told the BBC.
Woldbye said Heathrow’s backup power supply, designed for emergencies, worked as expected, but it wasn’t enough to run the whole airport, which uses as much energy as a small city.This story has been corrected to say that the 1934 fair competition code was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean atThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.
NOAA falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.The agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information — going as far back as 1980 — would be archived.