Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Joe Manchin, a key moderate Democrat from West Virginia, announced Wednesday that he will vote to confirm Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick to be Interior secretary.
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Big GOP Donors Seek to Funnel Money to Anti-Trump Republicans to Prise Party from His Grip – Newsweek
Many are expected to give the maximum amount of $5,800 to Liz Cheney’s 2022 campaign to quash Trump’s effort to oust her, said Michael Epstein, a top Maryland GOP donor.
Americans may still be wearing face masks in 2022, Fauci says
Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that he won’t rule out Americans still needing to wear masks in 2022 — even as the country returns to a certain degree of “normality.” When …
Videos show plane engine on fire as it drops debris on Colorado
The plane dropped debris throughout several Colorado neighborhoods, including a massive piece that narrowly missed someone’s home.
Assembly GOP introduces resolution calling for Cuomo’s impeachment
Thousands of service members saying no to Covid vaccine
While millions of Texans were without power in below-freezing temperatures Tuesday night, Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) went on Fox News and told Sean Hannity that the failure of the state’s power grid “shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America.” Abbott said “our wind and our solar got shut down,” which “thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power in a statewide basis.” The main culprit for the Texas power outages is failures in the natural gas sector, though, so on Wednesday, Abbott walked back his comments. “I was asked a question on one TV show about renewable, and I responded to that question,” Abbott said. “Every source of power that the state of Texas has has been compromised, whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar, but also, as I mentioned today, access to coal-generated power, access to gas-generated power, also have been compromised.” For all of 2020, 40 percent of Texas energy came from natural gas–fired plants, 23 percent from wind turbines, 18 percent from coal, and 11 percent from nuclear power, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the Texas power grid. But in the winter, only about 7 percent of ERCOT’s capacity was projected to come from wind sources. “Texas is still fossil-fueled,” and it’s obviously silly to suggest “the Republicans who run the state had accidentally adopted a Green New Deal that eliminated fossil fuels and destroyed the reliability of the grid,” Michael Grunwald writes at Politico. “The real problem in Texas is the freaky weather, and unfortunately, climate change is delivering a lot more freaky weather” — a phenomenon Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe calls “global weirding.” Abbott, in explaining the Texas grid failures, pleaded Wednesday that “this is a once-in-every-120-year cold front that we have to respond to.” But “today, only a fool expects a hundred-year drought or flood or snowfall event to happen once every hundred years,” Grunwald said, and Texas — and America — need to prepare accordingly. More stories from theweek.comTrump comes out of hidingRush Limbaugh’s estate: An insider’s guideAustin man rescues dozens of drivers left stranded by winter storm
Rush Limbaugh dead at 70

Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping…
LAUSD diverting school police funds to support Black students
The Board of Education approved a plan that cuts a third of the officers with the Los Angeles School Police Department, bans the use of pepper spray on students and diverts funds from the department to improve the education of Black students.
COVID-19 Vaccine: Don’t Miss 2nd Dose Because Of Scheduling Glitches – NPR
After getting one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, some people are having trouble getting their second shot. Here’s how to maximize the likelihood you’ll get both doses, to be fully immunized.