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The American Petroleum Institute is planning to endorse a carbon tax but has no plans to stop funding climate-denying candidates or stop representing Big Oil.
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The #resistance is growing. The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation’s largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
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The announcement comes as the oil industry faces the prospect of tighter regulations with the Biden administration and Democratic control of both houses of Congress. While it’s tempting to look at API’s planned endorsement of a carbon tax as a sign the industry is getting serious about climate change, following the money tells a much different story about what API’s legislative priorities are.
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What is the most scientifically plausible superpower?
2 We all know that superheroes like Superman or Thor are completely impossible. But just for the sake of argument, are there
any superpowers that could actually exist in the real world? We assembled a panel of experts to find out.
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We asked experts in the field of superhero physics, all of whom have written books explaining the science (or lack thereof) behind the most iconic superheroes. I offered up some famous, seemingly impossible superpowers - flight, super speed, invisibility, telepathy, teleportation, and energy manipulation - and then asked them for their choice of the most plausible superpower. Our first expert provided a breakdown of the six superpowers I named, while the others suggested some other potentially possible superpowers.
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Saru makes the profound error in judgment that his skills as a dinner host can make up for, well, y’know, existential trauma.
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The opening episodes of
Star Trek: Discovery’s third season have seen Michael Burnham and the ship’s crew realize that their lives have changed forever. Not only that, but the future they sacrificed those old lives for is not what they expected. This week, in an explosive moment of self-reflection, they’re beginning to reckon with the impact of their new reality.
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“Forget Me Not” examines the need to be open with yourself in the wake of great change painful change, especially across two important arcs. In the episode’s main plot, Michael and the crew take the newly aboard Adira (revealed last week as the
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Bachelor Nation continues to fumble with its racism problem, as executive producers of the ABC franchise have finally decided to speak up in defense of former
Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay. The statement, posted to Twitter on Monday evening ahead of last night’s “Women Tell All” edition of
The Bachelor, addressed the “totally unacceptable” treatment of Lindsay, “which, more often than not, has been rooted in racism.”
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Lindsay, the franchise’s first Black Bachelorette,recently left Instagram after enduring persistent racist harassment from
Bachelor fans in the wake of her interview with series host Chris Harrison, who defended current
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