Cheddar News anchor Shannon LaNier visited Westchester County, New York for a closer look at how some families are saving on energy by installing heat pumps.
Many experts consider electrically-powered heat pumps a green alternative to gas heat. They have both air conditioning and heating functionality and work by pulling air from the outside. They also happen to be relatively quiet.
"How much could someone save on their energy source here? I mean, it's gonna be different for every house, but ultimately, if you have the system sized appropriately and use the correct eligible technology, you can see some good savings based on the efficiency," said Watson Milliston, energy efficiency specialist at Con Edison.
Just don't forget to insulate your homes, he added, otherwise those efficiency gains go to waste.
"You want to weatherize your house and just trap all that heat that you're paying good money to keep," he said.
Graduation season is upon us, and many families are getting ready to shell out for the big celebrations. However, graduation parties don't have to break the bank. Cheddar News spoke with Lindsey Peers, owner of The Craft Studio, for some advice on how to decorate on the cheap, from reusing ribbons from the holidays from homemade step-and-repeats for photos.
A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon made its rounds on Twitter Monday, causing a lot of confusion and a brief dip in the stock market
Police have arrested a man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House.
A jury two weeks ago decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996.
Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate that pitted Western states against one another.
Robin Arzón, bestselling author and vice president of fitness programming and head instructor at Peloton, left her corporate job to get into fitness. Now she helps motivate Peloton's huge community every day.
Smoke from dozens of raging wildfires in western Canada has drifted south into the United States and prompted the states of Colorado and Montana to issue air quality alerts.
Three people were killed and six wounded in bar shootings early Sunday morning in Kansas City, Mo., and Birmingham, Ala.
The laws are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals," the NAACP wrote over the weekend.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said 8-year-old Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez was seen at least three times by medical personnel, which does not contradict her mother's claims that CBP staff refused to hospitalize the girl, who had heart problems and sickle cell anemia.
