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Freeze Could Keep Texans in the Dark for Days: Energy Update Bloomberg 2/17/2021 Joe Carroll and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) -- The deep freeze that has forced the shutdown of U.S. refineries, oil wells and meat plants, disrupted shipments of soybeans and corn, and is still leaving more than 3 million customers without electricity could continue to keep parts of Texas in the dark for several days. Popular Searches Operators have been slow to get power generation back online a...

Opinion: Why Trumps defense team failed miserably CNN 2/10/2021 © Fox News The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway on Tuesday with arguments about whether the US Senate has jurisdiction to try the former president now that he has left office. Most legal scholars, regardless of political ideology, believe it does. But impeachment is a political rather than a legal process, so a debate and vote on the issue took up the first day of the trial. Trumps lawyers, Bruce Castor an...

Why Trump’s defense team failed miserably The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway on Tuesday with arguments about whether the US Senate has jurisdiction to try the former president now that he has left office. Most legal scholars, regardless of political ideology, believe it does. But impeachment is a political rather than a legal process, so a debate and vote on the issue took up the first day of the trial. Trump’s lawyers, Bruce Castor and David Schoen, had two very diff...

Regulators crack down on Texas shale gas flaring By Kevin Crowley and Rachel Adams-Heard on 2/10/2021 HOUSTON (Bloomberg) --Texas’s energy regulator is taking an uncharacteristically critical approach toward burning off excess natural gas, a sign that growing pressure from environmentalists and investors to curb the controversial practice is paying off. The Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday deferred a series of applications belonging to oil companies incl...

Why advocates say upping staff at nursing homes could save lives At Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Joseph Riley enjoyed chatting with the staff, but James remembers his brother complaining about slow response times. and last updated 2021-02-13 17:41:40-05 RICHMOND, Va. -- Born in a segregated hospital in the 1940s, Joseph Riley and his six siblings did not have an easy childhood in Richmonds Church Hill neighborhood. "No plumbing, stove heat, and an outhouse," Josephs brother,...

Look at corrupt governance, sneering elitism, and authoritarian rule since the coronavirus hit, and its clear why theres an effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. California has become the property of the far-left Democratic machine.

I believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the one pulling the strings, is behaving as crazy as she is because she’s terrified.

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Read time: 7 mins By Nick Cunningham • Friday, January 29, 2021 - 10:50 In 2019 and 2020, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) conducted three helicopter surveys over the oil fields of West Texas. Flying over flare stacks at more than three hundred oil and gas drilling sites, EDF staff used infrared cameras to document unlit flares whose methane pollution is invisible to the naked eye. Their survey found that roughly 1 in 10 flares in the ...

As much as 40% of the natural gas that’s expected to be flared in the Permian Basin in 2025 could be avoided at no cost to drillers if regulators abandoned their hands-off approach to the controversial practice, according to a report.