energy

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/9/2023
  

  Oil and Spills Have Always Gone Hand in Hand

  by Nolan Varee

  Transporting a toxic substances quickly over long distances to market will inevitably produce spills. Though the technology of oil transport has changed, this essential fact remains unchanged, and will as long as regulation treats the risk as an acceptable part of the business.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/21/2021
  

  Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan

  An analysis of three interrelated failures of planning, logistics, and markets that led to the Texas electrical disaster. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/21/2021
  

  Why Texas Republicans Fear the Green New Deal

  by Naomi Klein

  The Texas blackouts show the political and social dead ends of the market revolution and the fossil fuel economy, says Naomi Klein. Politicians and industries wedded to the status quo are attacking the idea of a "Green New Deal" because it's encouraging people to imagine alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  2/17/2021
  

  From COVID to Power Outages in Ice Storms, the Texas Republican Party has Created a Failed State

  by Juan Cole

  Texas Republicans have gotten out of the way of the market and preached the futility of government action. A non-winterized utility grid is the result. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/23/2021
  

  Energy Deregulation Worsened the Texas Crisis — And Enron is Partly to Blame

  by Gavin Benke

  The problems in Texas are a product of an approach to the energy business that Lone Star State companies like Enron pursued at the end of the 20th century. 

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• 2/18/2021
  

  The Texas Weather and Power Catastrophe

  by HNN Staff

  The combination of severe winter storms and persistent cold and a deregulated energy supply system without compulsion to invest in winterization has left Texans without power, heat or drinking water for days. Senator Ted Cruz appears to have decamped to Cancun while politicians blame wind and solar power for frozen natural gas refineries.

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• SOURCE: The National (UAE)
  5/4/2020
  

  Investing in Energy and Projects Helped Pave the Way Out of the Great Depression: It Can Now Help Build a Greener World

  The convergence of the climate crisis and the COVID emergency means that governments should invest now in the infrastructure needed to speed the transition to a carbon-free energy system.

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• 11/17/19
  

  The Runway for Global Warming: The Suez Canal's 150th Anniversary

  by On Barak

  The largest infrastructural project of the nineteenth century annexed the Middle East into the fossil-fuels complex. Reexamining its history is indispensable for decarbonization today.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9-19-13
  

  Beating Swords Into Solar Panels

  by Mattea Kramer and Miriam Pemberton

  Re-purposing America's war machine.