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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, Green New Deal policies for outages. Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post Feb. 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail As millions of people across Texas struggled to stay warm Tuesday amid massive cold-weather power outages, Gov. Greg Abbott, R, directed his ire at one particular failure in the states independent energy grid: frozen wind turbines. "This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America," Abbott said to host ...

  The Federal Reserve repeated in minutes of its January meeting released on Wednesday that fiscal and monetary policy in a pandemic cannot by themselves throttle a pathogen. It will take ample supplies of vaccines and herd immunity to return to the “before” times. Vaccines, masks and social distancing, mixed with aid from Congress, could improve the economic outlook, according to the nation’s central bank (The Washington Post).    Ahead is a fast-moving legislative timeline as the Hou...

I would love to see about 8 new nuclear power plants constructed here in the U.S. in the next decade. Remember how awesome the Zion plant was? Ask anyone in Waukegan. the texas problem is emblematic of a broader issue we suffer — elected officials convincing voters that they can have everything, yet pay very little in taxes. they combine this message with the constant drumbeat that government is corrupt and incompetent, and only the private sector can solve all of our problems. all of this is...

More than 2.5 million customers remain without power in Texas and more cold, snowy weather is expected Thursday.

That hasn't stopped it from becoming a right-wing talking point.

The Energy 202: New clean energy lobbyists line up sway Biden administration Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck Its a new year and a new president is about to take office. Right on cue, a new cohort of lobbying groups is setting up shop in Washington to influence the incoming administrations agenda for tackling climate change. At least two energy trade organizations — one focused on the power sector, the other on automobiles — have launched in recent weeks to make s...

Major U.S. companies are lobbying in a scrum for early vaccine Christopher Rowland, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Jacob Bogage, Abha Bhattarai and Laura Reiley, The Washington Post Dec. 20, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Uber and Lyft, which consider their drivers independent contractors, not employees, are making their size and organization a key part of the appeal for prioritization.  (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Images 2019 Companies across America - from Amazo...

The Energy 202: Bidens choice of ex-Michigan governor as energy secretary points to focus on electric cars Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary is a sign the president-elect’s team will try to spur automakers to sell cars that need little to no gasoline. The relationship that Granholm, the former two-term governor of Michigan, has with Detroit automakers may prove crucial to the incomin...

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The Health 202: Its the day of reckoning for Pfizers coronavirus vaccine Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck Just hours from now, an advisory panel could clear the Food and Drug Administration to hit “go” on distributing the first coronavirus vaccines to Americans. The major step toward approval comes not a minute too soon: a record 3,140 people died yesterday in the U.S. of the novel coronavirus in what public health officials are warning is expected to ...