Connecticut’s largest utility pushed back a self-declared deadline to restore power to 99% of its customers by midnight Sunday, more than a week after a crippling early blizzard.

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Deadline missed to restore power in CT

MONTPELIER, Vt. — New England towns battled floods of historic proportions, utility crews struggled to restore power to 5 million people along the East Coast, and big-city commuters coped with transit-system disruptions Monday as the rainy remnants of Hurricane Irene finally spun into Canada. The death toll climbed to 35 people in 10 states after a number of bodies were pulled from the floodwaters in the Northeast. The storm never became the big-city nightmare forecasters and public officials had warned about. But it toppled trees and power lines and washed away roads and bridges — some of them well inland from the coastal areas that bore the brunt of Irene’s winds. Read full article > >

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After Irene: Vermont battles raging floods; death toll rises to 35

Two workers who had tried to restore power to the cooling system at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor have been sent to the hospital after their feet came into contact with radioactive water. They were exposed to radiation levels between 170 and 180…

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Two Fukushima Workers Hospitalized

Efforts resume to restore power and cool damaged reactors at Japan’s quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, despite smoke and steam rising from the plant.

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Work resumes at Japanese reactor

Japan’s race to cool nuclear reactors and restore power to its plants is slowly paying off: Engineers renewed power to cooling pumps at two Fukushima Daiichi buildings, and other workers have at last stabilized the complex’s most toxic No.3 reactor…

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Japan Sees Progress at Nuke Plant