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ERCOT, the Texas power grid operator, has two new board members: Paul Foster, former executive chair of Western Refining Inc. and Chairman of Franklin Mountain Energy, and Carlos Aguilar, president of Texas Central Partners LLC, the company behind the Dallas-Houston high speed train proposal. 

CVR Partners Names Dane Neumann Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer SUGAR LAND, Texas -CVR Partners, LP , together with CVR Energy, Inc. ,... | October 12, 2021

Refinery closures decreased U.S. refinery capacity during 2020 As a result of several U.S. refinery closures in 2020, U.S. operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity, the primary measure of refinery capacity in the United States, dropped 4.5% to a total of 18.1 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) at the start of 2021. The end-of-year 2020 total is 0.8 million b/cd less than the 19.0 million b/cd of refining capacity at the start of 2020. According to the data in our annual Refiner...

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (AP) As the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind every wind energy smear by a Texas politician is a dizzying amount of money contributed by the fossil fuel industry. Advertisement Earther looked at whose money is behind the loudest anti-wind voices this week. We used OpenSecrets data as well as individual political donations l...