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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 state's 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 Sean Hannity on Tuesday. "Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more tha...

  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 House returns to Washington next week eager to adopt by the end of February a relief blueprint that mir...

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 playing out in texas right now, as people freeze in dark homes, and the leaders blame solar and win...

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.