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How China’s Sinopec Is Escaping The Gas Utility Death Spiral — And Why The West Should Follow

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When Sinopec, China’s sprawling petroleum giant, decided to start drilling geothermal wells instead of oil wells, it was initially greeted with skepticism. Geothermal? Renewable energy? Surely not the first place you’d expect an oil-and-gas colossus to stake its future. But Sinopec wasn’t dabbling. True to form, the company went straight … [continued]

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Tesla: King of Meme Stocks? Putting Retail Investors at Major Risk?

10 min read

There are meme stocks and then there are meme stocks. A key element of a meme stock is that it has a huge amount of decentralized, retail, normal-folk fans and investors. A hot social media trend is rolling, and the meme stock benefits. Another element is typically that the stock … [continued]

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Don’t Use The Phrase “Climate Resilient” If You Want US Federal Funding

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Farmers and ranchers are finding themselves immersed in a battle over the way they choose their words as they hope to maintain US federal funding. An internal USDA spreadsheet obtained by The Washington Post shows that more than $400 million of climate resilient projects administered through the Natural Resources and … [continued]

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