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As an essential business since the pandemic was declared, Trader Joe's has prioritized creating a safe working and shopping environment every day. To do this important work we have developed, and continue to develop, effective procedures that meet or...

ClimaCell, the world's leading All-in-One Weather Intelligence Platformtm, reports that the 2020 hurricane season has broken the previously held record for the most named storms ever.  Thanks to Hurricane Eta, which formed over last weekend, the 2020...

The safety and well-being of Canadians remains the Government of Canada's top priority as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The federal government is taking decisive action to support families, businesses and communities, and continues to look ahead...

Georgia Power has restored power to 99% of customers, more than 806,000, impacted by Hurricane Zeta. More than 4,000 Georgia Power personnel, with assistance from out-of-state utilities, were mobilized as part of the company's restoration effort....

(S&P Global Ratings) Across U.S. public finance, extreme weather events can have greatly varied credit impacts. When events such as hurricanes, wildfires, and tornadoes occur, market participants want to understand the potential short- and long-term...

In response to Hurricane Zeta and the ongoing impact of Hurricane Delta, the governors of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi have declared new or extended existing states of emergencies for impacted counties in their states. Blue Cross Blue Shield...

Clarity Movement Co. announced today a new partnership with Blue Forest Conservation. Blue Forest and partners will leverage Clarity's air quality data platform to better understand, quantify, and manage the public health impacts of wildfire smoke....

As of 5:30 p.m. today, Georgia Power has restored power to more than 97% of customers, approximately 798,000, impacted by Hurricane Zeta. In addition to Georgia Power crews, the company has contractor personnel from out-of-state utilities working...

As of last night, Georgia Power has restored power to more than 95% of customers, approximately 785,000, impacted by Hurricane Zeta. In addition to Georgia Power crews, the company has contractor personnel from out-of-state utilities working with...

Duke Energy as of 5 p.m. ET today had restored power to nearly 90 percent of the company's more than 500,000 North Carolina and South Carolina customers who lost electricity Thursday at the height of Tropical Storm Zeta....

Georgia Power continues restoration efforts and has already restored electric service to more than 750,000 customers following Hurricane Zeta. In addition to Georgia Power crews, the company has contractor personnel from out-of-state utilities...

Georgia Power continues restoration efforts and has already restored electric service to more than 700,000 customers following Hurricane Zeta. As of 1 p.m. Saturday, approximately 68,000 customers are without power across Georgia. The company is...

Georgia Power continues restoration efforts and has already restored electric service to more than 700,000 customers following Hurricane Zeta. As of 9 a.m. Saturday, approximately 78,000 customers are without power across Georgia. The company is...

Georgia Power continues restoration efforts and has already restored electric service to nearly 741,000 customers following Hurricane Zeta. As of 7 p.m. Friday, approximately 129,000 customers are without power across Georgia. The company is working...

Duke Energy crews have restored power to nearly 70 percent of the company's more than 500,000 North Carolina and South Carolina customers who lost electricity at the height of Tropical Storm Zeta on Thursday....

Smithfield Foods, Inc. has donated nearly 30,000 pounds of protein to Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana to aid ongoing recovery efforts in Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Zeta. The donation, equivalent to more than...

Georgia Power continues damage assessment and restoration efforts and has already restored electric service to nearly 675,000 customers following Hurricane Zeta. As of 1 p.m. Friday, approximately 180,000 customers are without power across Georgia....

StandUp Wireless announced today that it will give all Louisiana customers  unlimited talk and text and 3GB of data for 30 days in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Zeta....

Electric service to nearly 490,000 Georgia Power customers has been restored following Hurricane Zeta. As of 8 p.m. Thursday, approximately 280,000 customers are without power across Georgia. The company expects power to be restored to 95% of...

Tropical Storm Zeta's powerful winds raced through North Carolina and South Carolina today, cutting power to more than 500,000 Duke Energy customers at the height of the storm ? more than 10 percent of the company's total customers in the two-state...

Electric service to more than 280,000 Georgia Power customers has been restored following Hurricane Zeta. As of 1:30 p.m. Thursday, approximately 417,000 customers are without power across Georgia....

As Hurricane Zeta clears Georgia, Georgia Power begins its full-scale damage assessment. There has been significant damage due to high winds, heavy rain and fallen trees in the hardest hit areas leaving more than 600,000 customers without power....

Fannie Mae  is reminding those impacted by Hurricane Zeta of available mortgage assistance and disaster relief options. Under Fannie Mae's guidelines for single-family mortgages impacted by a natural disaster: Homeowners may request mortgage...

With the remnants of Hurricane Zeta expected to travel across North Carolina and South Carolina Thursday, Duke Energy has readied its crews for a multi-day restoration effort and has more than 2,600 workers prepared to respond to power outages, which...

Once again Gulf Coast Hospitals are activating emergency internet banners in both Louisiana and Alabama to warn healthcare workers and patients in coastal counties under threat. Emergency Management weather updates for Hurricane Zeta are important...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2021/Protect-Your-Family-Before-and-After-Hurricane-Zeta As Hurricane Zeta threatens the...

As Tropical Storm Zeta continues to strengthen as it tracks towards the Gulf Coast, Georgia Power is prepared to respond to any service interruptions that may occur later this week as the storm moves into middle and north Georgia. Due to already...

In response to historic wildfires in Colorado, the governor of Colorado has declared a state of emergency for Boulder, Grand, and Larimer counties. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross), Inc. is expediting access to care for members...

ClimaCell, the world's leading All-in-One Weather Intelligence Platformtm, tweeted that Tropical Storm Epsilon has now been upgraded to a Category 3 Hurricane, with maximum sustained winds at 115 mph, marking the 10th hurricane of a jam-packed 2020...

Austin's largest holiday event attracting 400,000 attendees each year, has reinvented itself for 2020. Austin Trail of Lights, the city's second largest event, has been converted into an hourly timed access drive-thru experience. To accommodate the...

Visionect officially announced the launch of the Joan Desk Booking app (https://getjoan.com/joan-desk-booking-app/), a simple and easy-to-use SaaS that allows employees and team members to book office seats directly from a mobile phone or computer....

The cost of fire damage extends beyond the house or business burning down. Along with property loss and damage comes the emotional toll and the cost of repairs and recovery and SERVPRO, the fire damage repair company serving Oceano, wants the...

Kettle, the reinsurance startup that uses advanced deep learning to better protect people from the growing risks associated with climate change, such as California's wildfires, today announced its seed financing round. The $4.71 million round was led...

As the record-setting year of wildfires continues to ravage California, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) today brought its scientific expertise to Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's Homeowners' Insurance Investigatory...

Those in the health and human services field don't need statistics to know that the current pandemic is having an adverse effect on mental health. A recent survey found that 45 percent of Americans feel the coronavirus outbreak is having a...

Today, the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) and Audacious Inquiry announced that the State of Texas is adopting the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergenciestm (PULSE) platform to strengthen the state's disaster response in the wake of...

In response to the recent loss of Calistoga Ranch, Auberge Resorts Collection to the Napa Valley Glass Fire, Auberge Resorts Collection today announced the launch of the Auberge Assistance Fund, a relief initiative that will help struggling team...

Wildfire season is well underway, with wildfires scorching a record breaking number of acres up and down California, and the peak of the season is yet to come. Mercury Insurance today announced two new programs the company is launching to help...

On September 30, 2020 Dicapta Foundation presented their GoCC4All emergency alert system at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Integrated Public Alert and Warning Systems (IPAWS) webinar: Unique Alerting Systems. Attendees included...

Despite a year of record-breaking wildfires, extreme weather, and a pandemic, more than 6.1 million Californians are registered to participate in this Thursday's (10/15) Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill, also known as International ShakeOut...

The University of Maryland (UMD) in partnership with the International Fire Safety Consortium (IFSC) and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) are working to address fire safety problems worldwide by advancing fire safety engineering and scientific...

California Receivership Group - As wildfires get closer to containment throughout Northern California, the First District Court of Appeal released a published ruling that nuisance abatement, including that of burned structures, is not to be held...

Elizabethtown College recently launched an interdisciplinary and dynamic Public Health major. A relevant career field amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students majoring in Public health also will address issues of poverty, nutrition, disease control and...

Tukatech announces the reopening of their fashion job portal "Career Connection" where future employees and employers meet and find out if they were a good fit for each other. Industry skilled workers can visit the Tukatech website and search through...

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. today announced it expects its third quarter catastrophe losses to be approximately $66 million, before taxes, or $52 million after taxes, driven primarily by Hurricane Isaias and wildfires in California and Oregon....

Safehub, a global data platform and enterprise IoT technology company delivering real-time, building-specific earthquake damage information, today announced the results of its migration to the Amazon Aurora cloud environment. Safehub chose to...

Trinity Building Systems has recently joined forces with Premier Building Systems (PBS) and Big Sky R-Control (BSI), to provide support for those who have recently been impacted by natural disaster. With operations based out of Oregon, Washington,...

"I live in a coastal area and tide water would flood my property during the lunar moon," said an inventor, from Hanahan, S.C. "I wanted to create a system to prevent this from happening, so I invented the LUNAR MOON FLOOD TANK."...

In the wake of Hurricane Delta, Sempra Energy today pledges $100,000 to assist communities in Southwest Louisiana and Southeast Texas in recovering from back-to-back hurricanes. This builds on a $500,000 pledge by the Sempra Energy Foundation toward...

Members of Entergy's storm team are assessing damages and restoring power where it is safe to do so after Hurricane Delta made landfall Friday afternoon near Creole, Louisiana, as a Category 2 hurricane. The system caused widespread damage to...