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Today's Topics
- Corporate Governance
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Texas Energy Crisis
- Texas House Gives Green Light to Package of Electric Grid Reform Bills
- Texas Water System, Like the Grid, Failed in Winter Storm
- Warren Buffett’s Firm Is Proposing an $8 Billion Boondoggle to Prevent the Next Texas Blackout
- Critics: New Texas Legislation Doesn't Do Enough to Prevent Another Power Crisis
- Lone Star Solar: Challenges and Opportunities in Post-Blackout Texas
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Electric Cars vs. Oil Cars
- Will Biden's $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Usher in Era of the EV?
- The Next Electric Car Battery Champion Could Be European
- The Best Electric Cars of 2021, According to Engineers
- Tesla's Market Value Set to Gain $50 Billion on Record EV Deliveries
- US Public Warming Up Quickly to Electric Vehicles
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Election 2020
- Biden Wants to Give Electric Cars a Huge Boost. Will People Buy Them?
- Biden Plan Spurs Fight Over What ‘Infrastructure’ Really Means
- China Looms Large in Biden Infrastructure Plan
- How Biden's Zero-Carbon Revolution Would Broaden the Energy Map
- Biden, Buttigieg Exaggerate Projected Job Gains in Infrastructure Plan
- RealClearEnergy Originals
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Editor's Must Reads
- What Should Coal Communities Do When Power Plants Shut Down? Ask Germany.
- More US Coal Power Retired Under Trump Than in Obama's Second Term
- Amazon 'Illegally Retaliated' Against Climate Activists
- India Delays Anti-Pollution Rules for Coal Power Plants Again
- Despite Pledge to Reduce Emissions, China Is Bingeing on Coal
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Coronavirus
- Oil Rebounds on Robust Economic Data
- Oil Prices Drop Sharply as Rising Coronavirus Cases Prompt Questions About Demand Recovery
- Saudi Oil Giant Aramco Reports 44% Profit Slump in 2020 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Surge in Air Travel Amid Increase in COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Michigan Reports Record Number of Coronavirus Infections
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US Department of Energy
- State Gasoline Taxes Average About 30 Cents Per Gallon
- For Most of 2020, China's Refineries Processed More Crude Oil Than US Refineries
- US Gasoline Prices Have Been Rising With Crude Oil Prices
- US Energy Consumption Fell a Record 7% in 2020
- Utilities Continue to Increase Spending on the Electric Transmission System
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Fracking for Oil and Gas Is Good
- Europe’s Plastics Industry Is About to Boom. US Fracking Is Driving It.
- Not a Fracking Frenzy: What the New Shale Oil Boom Will Look Like
- Colombia Is Preparing for a Fracking Boom
- Newsom Asked for a Fracking Ban. He May Get More Than He Bargained for With Ambitious Plan
- Fracking Titan Is Bulking Up With $6.4 Billion Acquisition as Oil Prices Recover
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Grid Security
- DOE to Fund Research Into Securing Energy Grid’s Cyber-Physical Infrastructure
- Biden Plans to Make America’s Infrastructure More Resilient
- Industry Divided Over FERC's Proposed Incentives for Cybersecurity Measures
- GAO Finds Utility Distribution Systems 'Increasingly at Risk' for Cyberattacks
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International Energy Agency
- 'Mother Earth Is Screaming at Us:' Kerry Warns IEA Summit Over Climate Action
- IEA Unites Energy Leaders for COP26 Climate Action
- ‘No Greenwashing:’ Fossil Gas and Nuclear Must Not Be Defined as Clean, Ministers Tell IEA Summit
- Global Carbon Emissions Risk Rebounding This Year, IEA Warns
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Energy Poverty: The World's Forgotten Calamity
- Health Experts Should Help Texas Reimagine Its Energy Policies
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- Over 120 Million Nigerians Facing Energy Poverty
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Michael Moore 'Planet of the Humans'
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