Energy storage for grid reliability can increase carbon emissions: UMich study

www.utilitydive.com— Energy storage is often pitched as a way to make renewables more reliable and reduce the use of planet-warming fuels, but researchers at the University of Michigan found that it can encourage the use of coal over gas.

WFIN Local News—Anger can increase heart attack risk, study finds: ‘Chronic insult to arteries’. Seeing red could spike your heart disease risk, experts are warning. Feeling angry for as little as eight minutes a day could raise your chances of experiencing a cardiac event, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (AHA). The study included 280 healthy young adults with no history of

WKBN.com—Gas stove emissions increasing childhood asthma rates, adult deaths: Stanford study. Residents of households with gas or propane stoves are regularly inhaling pollutants that are both exacerbating childhood asthma rates and causing early death, a coast-to-coast study of U.S. homes found.

KTVZ—Spillover speeds: AAA study finds raising speed limits on interstates can increase crash rates on nearby roads. Raising speed limits on highways could lead to more crashes on nearby roads, according to new research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. This “spillover effect” can lead to dangerous clusters of crashes or “hotspots” on local roads within a one-mile radius of the interstate.