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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday rebuked a claim made a day before by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that put the blame for that state’s massive cold-weather power outage on the failure of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. In fact, extreme weather like the winter storm that swept across the country in recent days will become more likely as climate change worsens, Gates told Yahoo Finance, advocating instead for an expansion of renewable energy as part of his call for… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Millions of households in Texas are suffering rolling blackouts for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze sends temperatures plummeting across much of the U.S., roiling energy markets. Large swaths of Dallas, Houston and other cities are being plunged into darkness for an hour at a time — and in some cases longer — as surging demand for heat pushes the power grid to the brink. Outages are expected to continue into early Tuesday, grid operators said… Source link

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Business Google said on Sunday that antitrust claims in a Texas lawsuit were “misleading,” responding in a blog post as state attorneys general plan suits against the Alphabet Inc unit. … Source link

FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is pictured on a Google building in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google said on Sunday that antitrust claims in a Texas lawsuit were “misleading,” responding in a blog post as state attorneys general plan suits against the Alphabet Inc unit. In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint about Google’s advertising technology business, in one of… Source link

Records obtained by The Associated Press show Paxton signed contracts with the firms after eight of the Republican’s senior aides accused him of crimes. All eight have resigned or been fired, including the lawyer who was leading the Google investigation. Source link

Records obtained by The Associated Press show Paxton signed contracts with the firms after eight of the Republican’s senior aides accused him of crimes. All eight have resigned or been fired, including the lawyer who was leading the Google investigation. Source link

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking $43 million in taxpayer money to pay outside lawyers to lead a 10-state antitrust lawsuit against Google By JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press January 5, 2021, 8:50 PM • 5 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article DALLAS — The mass exodus of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top staff over accusations of bribery against their former boss has left the Republican seeking $43 million in public funds to replace some of them with… Source link

For those reading the tea leaves the past month, it appeared inevitable that Michigan would extend head coach Jim Harbaugh. It had appeared that the same thing would happen at Texas — though an extension wasn’t necessarily on the table, but the brass in Austin expressed a vote of confidence in Tom Herman. However, the Longhorns did an about face, hiring away Steve Sarkisian from national championship game-bound Alabama. One program is being aggressive, the other patient. As Dan Wetzel… Source link

Texas fired football coach Tom Herman on Saturday after he posted a 32-18 record (.640) the last four seasons. Buying out the contracts of Herman and all of his assistants will run the school (or its boosters) about $24 million and that’s before it pays new coach Steve Sarkisian or his staff. Meanwhile, Michigan presented football coach Jim Harbaugh a five-year contract extension this week (he’s yet to sign it, per an industry source) after leading the Wolverines to a 49-22 record (.690)… Source link