The U.S. House on Friday approved the SPEED Act, a sweeping permitting overhaul, setting up a Senate fight as Maryland lawmakers split sharply over its impact on offshore wind and energy development.

The House on Thursday passed a bill that aims to speed up infrastructure and energy projects — with a new anti-wind amendment in order to get GOP hard-liners on board. The vote was 221-196. The SPEED ...

The US is expected to add more than 7 gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity in 2025, a 36% increase from this year, according to the latest US Wind Energy Monitor report from Wood Mackenzie and the ...

The president ordered a stop to permits for all wind farms on federal lands and waters. A judge called that “capricious.” By Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A federal judge on ...

With a gust in Hurricane Melissa setting a record for peak gust measured by a specialized instrument dropped into the eye of a hurricane – 252 mph – you might be wondering what the fastest wind speeds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hurricane Melissa has officially entered the record books after scientists verified a wind gust of 252 mph as the storm approached ...

Hurricane Melissa's wind gusts reached a record-breaking speed shortly before the storm made landfall in the Caribbean last month, according to data recorded during the deadly event. The data was ...

How fast is the wind blowing where you live? As we see on “Weather Hunters,” meteorologists use a tool called an anemometer to measure wind speed. Anemometers work because they have arms with cup-like ...

Tropical systems begin as tropical depressions, which are areas of low pressure with wind speeds of up to 38 miles per hour. When those winds strengthen and reach between 39 and 73 miles per hour, the ...

We love Arduino here at Hackaday; they’ve probably done more to make embedded programming accessible to more people than anything else in the history of the field. One thing the Arduino ecosystem is ...

March 2025 was the windiest March on record for many U.S. cities, and Michigan also saw above-average winds. More than 1,500 wind damage reports were submitted to the National Weather Service in March ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On April 10, 1996, a powerful Cyclone blew across Barrow Island off the northwestern coast of Australia, setting a world record that still stands nearly three decades later. A ...