Sophia Schmidt

FIFA put up shade tents, water bottle filling stations and water misters to help fans stay cool at Lemon Hill.

Parade organizers said they were “heartbroken” for thousands of participants who traveled from as far away as Italy to take part.

The dangerous heat is accelerating air conditioner use. Data centers could be directed to use their own backup power.

The Monroe Energy refinery in Trainer processes an average of 185,000 barrels per day, including jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.

City officials cut a deal meant to protect residents with the scrap metal company. It didn't. “We let them down,” EMR USA CEO Joe Balzano said.

The lawsuit, filed by three Camden residents, claimed “noxious emissions” from EMR interfered with the use of their properties.

Amid a backdrop of steadily rising temperatures, the city's average from March through May tied a record set in 1921.

The company said the order to pause its scrap metal shredder has cost it around $10 million and will lead to layoffs if it continues.

The city suspended EMR’s junkyard license for the facility where the latest fire occurred, and will reevaluate the suspension next month.

The May fire was the latest of over a dozen at facilities run by EMR in Camden since 2020. The suspension will be reevaluated in early July.

The order comes after city, county and state elected officials called on government agencies to shut EMR’s Camden operations.

A spokesperson for Camden’s mayor said the city is “undertaking all necessary legal research to move forward” with revoking EMR’s city licensure.