TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas this week is the largest for an onshore crude oil pipeline in more than nine years and by far the largest in Keystone Pipeline history, according to federal data. Canadian company TC Energy estimated the spill on the Keystone system on Thursday …
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Weekly jobless claims rise in line with estimates Moderna and Pfizer in place as FDA clears updated COVID boosters Exxon climbs after strengthening its buyback program Indices up: Dow 0.55%, S&P 0.75%, Nasdaq 1.13% Dec 8 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 (.SPX) ended higher on Thursday, ending a five-game losing streak as investors interpreted data …
Texas lawmakers have scheduled a hearing next week with asset management firms on alleged ideologically motivated mismanagement of taxpayers’ money. Four months ago, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee requested documents from BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Institutional Shareholder Services regarding corporate promotion of the environmental, social and governance movement, also known as name of …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date with the most essential news from Texas. In a letter last week and at a committee meeting on Monday, Texas House and Senate lawmakers asked the Public Utilities Commission, which regulates the state’s electricity market, to suspend the planned overhaul of …
(Bloomberg) – The rush for digital gold in Texas is losing its luster as Bitcoin miners struggle financially, leaving behind what some fear is a wasteland of unfinished sites and equipment abandoned. Bloomberg’s Most Read In an effort to become a haven for crypto mining, Texas has aggressively lured miners with cheap energy and supportive …
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November 28, 2022 Texas manufacturing activity stagnates, outlook continues to deteriorate What’s new this month For this month’s survey, Texas business executives answered additional questions about operating costs and margins. The results of these questions from the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey, the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey and the Texas Retail Outlook Survey have been …
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Construction workers who worked hard at one of Tesla’s so-called sprawling gigafactories will file a lawsuit and referral to the federal Department of Labor on Tuesday detailing the abusive working conditions they say they endured while building the factory. The whistleblowers have come forward to allege serious labor and employment violations during the construction of …
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AUSTIN — A report by consultancy Energy and Environmental Economics recommends Texas emulate the power grid structure of New England, New York and the Mid-Atlantic. The members of the Public Utility Commission lean towards another approach. The report, released Thursday, analyzes six specific market reshaping options. Of these, E3 recommended the state select a downstream …
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An aerial view of a Starship prototype stacked on top of a Super Heavy booster at the company’s Starbase facility outside of Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX As Elon Musk makes daily headlines about the changes on Twitter, a major revamp is underway at his space company’s launch facility in Texas. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell …
