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How Do Californians Perceive Climate Risks to Their Household Water Supplies?

Union of Concerned Scientists

I lived through one of these storms recently in Texas: Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which had me juggling microwaving food and charging devices as the local utility imposed rolling blackouts during the freeze. Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Data: NOAA 2023.

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Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

Last year, the Texas Department of State Health Services published the results of a cancer cluster study near a commercial sterilizer in Laredo, Texas. The study looked at cancer diagnoses between 2006 and 2019 and found “significantly greater than expected” cases of lymphocytic leukemia and breast cancer.

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Why Energy Bills Will Be Even Higher This Winter

Union of Concerned Scientists

To dig into how the country got here, it’s helpful to split up the contributing factors into the three main “gas value chain” categories: the production of gas via drilling (“upstream”), the transportation of gas via pipelines (“midstream”), and the facilities that receive the gas, such as gas-fired power plants (“downstream”).

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law Blog

Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. In Sanchez v. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law Blog

Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Enterprise Offshore Drilling LLC, 2019 WL 2515307 (Jun. In Sanchez v. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers.

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What’s Up With Water – February 8, 2022

Circle of Blue

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. The 10 counties that received the highest insurance payments for drought-related losses were all in Texas. Texas, especially its Panhandle, where these counties are clustered, is getting hotter and drier.

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DOJ Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Precedent-Setting Criminal Wage-Fixing Case

Arnold Porter

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. On November 29, 2021, Judge Amos L. 19, 2018).]] Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights (Oct.

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