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Docket FWS-R6-ES-2026-0114: a timeline of eleven extensions
Every reopening of the comment period, traced against the substation that went down to cause it. The pattern is easier to see laid end to end.
INVESTIGATIONS · 2 DAYS AGO
FEMA quietly updates its guidance on "extended grid absence"
The revised language drops the word "temporary" from a section that had carried it since 1994. The agency calls the change editorial.
NATIONAL · 4 DAYS AGO
Colorado homeowner: "It knew where the breaker box was"
A Durango couple returned from vacation to a scorched living room, a missing back door, and a utility account that had never stopped billing.
NATIONAL · 5 DAYS AGO
Inside the Interagency Working Group nobody announced
It was convened in May, it meets weekly, and its existence was confirmed only after a records request returned an agenda with one word left unredacted.
INVESTIGATIONS · 6 DAYS AGO
National
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US Power Grid Under Strain, and It's Not From What You Think
A sharp national increase in electrical fires is being traced to animals breaking into power facilities.
NATIONAL · 4 HOURS AGO
FEMA quietly updates its guidance on "extended grid absence"
The revised language drops the word "temporary" from a section that had carried it since 1994. The agency calls the change editorial.
NATIONAL · 4 DAYS AGO
Colorado homeowner: "It knew where the breaker box was"
A Durango couple returned from vacation to a scorched living room, a missing back door, and a utility account that had never stopped billing.
NATIONAL · 5 DAYS AGO
Politics
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The easement nobody in Congress wants to be asked about
Two delegations have publicly backed the rescission. Neither will say whether they still do.
POLITICS · 2 DAYS AGO
Fish and Wildlife nominee declines to answer written questions on the docket
Fourteen of the twenty-two questions submitted for the record came back with the same nine-word response.
POLITICS · 3 DAYS AGO
Energy
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Transformer lead times push past eighteen months as utilities quietly reorder
Three manufacturers have stopped quoting delivery dates entirely. Orders are up sharply, and almost nobody will say what they are replacing.
ENERGY · 1 DAY AGO
Eleven states now report substation intrusions. Only four will say how many.
Public records requests returned counts from four states, an exemption citation from seven, and one letter that appears to have been sent by mistake.
ENERGY · 3 DAYS AGO
Rural co-ops circulate two-week water guidance without explaining why
Members in three states received the same advisory within eleven days of each other. None of the co-ops will say where the language came from.
ENERGY · 4 DAYS AGO
Investigations
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Docket FWS-R6-ES-2026-0114: a timeline of eleven extensions
Every reopening of the comment period, traced against the substation that went down to cause it. The pattern is easier to see laid end to end.
INVESTIGATIONS · 2 DAYS AGO
Inside the Interagency Working Group nobody announced
It was convened in May, it meets weekly, and its existence was confirmed only after a records request returned an agenda with one word left unredacted.
INVESTIGATIONS · 6 DAYS AGO
Opinion
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The comment period that will not close
HOLLIS BREWER
I have covered administrative law for nineteen years. I would like someone to explain to me why I am now reading fire incident reports.
OPINION · 1 WEEK AGO
Stop calling it a wildlife problem
DALE ANNETTE MARCH
The word we are all carefully avoiding is doing an enormous amount of work, and everyone in the room knows it.
OPINION · 1 WEEK AGO