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Level 1 – Global Dengue

Published: 25 February 2025
Categories: DoT, Public Health

Dengue is a year-round risk in many parts of the world, with outbreaks commonly occurring every 2-5 years. Travelers to risk areas should prevent mosquito bites. Country List : Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ecuador, including the Galápagos Islands, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Sudan, Cuba, French Polynesia, including the island groups of Society Islands (Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora-Bora), Marquesas Islands (Hiva Oa and Ua Huka), and Austral Islands (Tubuai and Rurutu), Iran, Philippines, Saint Lucia, Pakistan, Guadeloupe, Brazil, Nicaragua, Senegal

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Planned retirements of U.S. coal-fired electric-generating capacity to increase in 2025

Published: 25 February 2025
Categories: US Energy Information Administration

In-brief analysis

February 25, 2025

Electricity generators plan to retire 12.3 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2025, a 65% increase in retirements compared with 2024. Last year, 7.5 GW was retired from the U.S. power grid, the least generation retired since 2011, according to data reported to us in our latest inventory of electric generators. Coal generating capacity accounts for the largest share of planned capacity retirements (66%), followed by natural gas (21%).

Coal. Electric generators report that they plan to retire 8.1 GW of coal-fired capacity in 2025, or 4.7% of the total U.S. coal fleet that was in operation at the end of 2024. Coal retirements decreased to 4.0 GW last year, less than the 9.8 GW of coal capacity retired in each of the last 10 years.

The largest U.S. coal plant that

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