After a winter storm last month left more than 3.5 million energy customers in Texas without power, it was clear the electricity grid wasn’t prepared to handle the sort of extreme weather events that will become ever more frequent with climate change. Now a new government report suggests the country’s power infrastructure might be even less capable than most people realize to adapt to a changing climate.
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• The Wall Street Journal celebrates the American Rescue Plan, but not because it helps workers.
• The Walt Disney Company finds itself embroiled in the efforts to restrict voting rights.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission helps out ExxonMobil with a messy fossil fuel problem, and workers and taxpayers could be left on the hook.
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