pv-magazine-usa.com Texas Senate passes anti-solar, wind bill
The bill exclusively places permit restrictions, fees and new regulatory requirements for solar and wind projects.
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"The Texas Senate voted 22-9 to pass Senate Bill 819. The bill places restrictions on solar and wind power projects, requiring new permits, assessing fees, adding new regulatory requirements and placing new taxes on the projects.
The legislation “adds onerous requirements to new solar projects that would not apply to other energy sources except wind,” said the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA).
Texas has the nation’s largest utility-scale solar market – a $50 billion industry that has enough solar installed to power nearly 5 million homes. The bill is expected to slow development, raise Texans’ utility bills, harm rural economies, worsen grid reliability and encroach on private property rights.
“This bill will kill renewable energy in Texas,” Jeff Clark, CEO of Texas Power Alliance, said during public testimony.
Senate Bill 819 requires solar and wind projects of 10 MW or larger to obtain a permit from t
www.theguardian.com Texas reports large leap in measles cases bringing total to 481 across 19 counties
Number of cases of highly contagious disease so far this year now at more than double amount seen all of 2024
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www.propublica.org Texas AG Ken Paxton Won’t Face Federal Corruption Charges as He Gains Momentum for Likely Senate Run
The federal criminal investigation was the most serious legal threat the once-embattled Republican faced. With the probe now over, Paxton is gearing up to likely challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in 2026.
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www.texasobserver.org Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails.
Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20224513
Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.
AccuWeather has been working on this since 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties_Act_of_2005
AccuWeather has been working on this since 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties_Act_of_2005
Not sure why the graphics aren't showing up for you. It's rendering fine in Firefox for me. I've added some graphics to the summary just in case you can't see them on the website.
German election results explained in graphics
www.dw.com German election results explained in graphics – DW – 02/24/2025
Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz have won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics.
Pretty soon they'll start calling it the Spanish Tuberculosis
Carbon steel or cast iron all the way.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
--Lyndon B. Johnson
www.propublica.org A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21436202
Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy.
The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should have offered to speed up the delivery or empty her uterus to stave off a deadly infection, more than a dozen medical experts told ProPublica.
But when Barnica’s husband rushed to her side from his job on a construction site, she relayed what she said the medical team had told her: “They had to wait until there was no heartbeat,” he told ProPublica in Spanish. “It would be a crime to give her an abortion.”
For 40 hours, the anguished 28-year-old mother prayed for doctors to help her get home to her daughter; all the while, her uterus remained
apnews.com Missouri governor rescinds purchasing goals order for businesses owned by women and minorities
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has rescinded an executive order that set modest goals for state agencies to make purchases from businesses owned by minorities and women, claiming the goals carried “legal concerns.”
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boltsmag.org Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Warn That Ohio’s Ballot Language Is Misleading Voters
If “yes” on Issue 1 wins, it’d create an independent redistricting process. But some voters are saying the GOP-crafted ballot summary tricked them into opposing a reform they support.
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This is the way:
AccuWeather has been trying since 2005:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Duties_Act_of_2005
It's solar panels. Saved you a click.
Liver-Brain Axis Plays Key Role in Alzheimer’s
neurosciencenews.com Liver-Brain Axis Plays Key Role in Alzheimer's - Neuroscience News
Researchers found evidence pointing to the crucial role the liver might play in Alzheimer's disease development.
Researchers found evidence pointing to the crucial role the liver might play in Alzheimer’s disease development.