Buyer beware. Many of today’s most popular electronics — including Tesla cars, e-scooters and smartphones — are powered by lithium-ion batteries, because they can can store large quantities of energy in a small space.
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4/20/23
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Most Long Islanders don’t blink when they hear the words “congestion pricing,” but this idea, now before the State Legislature, is a big deal for out-of-city drivers.
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3/15/19
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Nassau County Police are looking for someone who stole 252 school buses batteries. Sometime between April 9 and April 30, someone entered the Baumann Bus Company storage lot at 460 Brown Court in …
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5/6/15
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That time of the year is here again — the heart of hurricane season — and it’s important to take steps now to make sure you and your family are safe when the next storm hits.
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8/13/14
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For more than a decade the former Island Park oil storage and distribution site laid fallow and abandoned, contaminated by its former use and part of the New York State Brownfield program, which …
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5/3/13
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Every year, hundreds of Long Island homes suffer fires that leave the lives of their occupants in shambles.
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10/18/12
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I awoke at 3:45 a.m. on Sept. 30, and by 4:35 I was on a train speeding from Merrick to Penn Station. At 6 a.m., I stood at Liberty and West streets in Lower Manhattan, near 1 World Trade Center.
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10/11/12
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On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City firefighter Stephen Siller called his wife, Sarah, shortly after 8:46 a.m., when five Al Qaeda terrorists slammed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center’s North Tower.
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8/16/12
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Two Brooklyn men were arrested and charged with robbing a Rite Aid on Merrick Road in Bellmore on Friday morning. When Nassau County police officers arrived on the scene, one spotted the suspects fleeing in a 2001 Green Kia.
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By Deirdre Krasula, dkrasula@liherald.com
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11/21/11
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Q. I was told by my village that I need to have smoke detectors in my two-family house in order to renew my application. Even though I didn't have them before, I have to install them. One guy said they have to be hard-wired, but my electrician called and they said just battery-operated. Which is it?
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Monte Leeper
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5/14/10
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