U.S. lawmaker introduces bill to eliminate carbon credits for oil recovery | Reuters

The tax credit, known as 45Q, allows companies to earn money for every ton of carbon that they capture off a polluting facility and store underground. The bill, titled the End Polluter Welfare for Enhanced Oil Recovery Act, is co-sponsored by Raul Grijalva of Arizona, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Mike Quigley […]

Daughter of pioneering astronaut Alan Shepard soars to space aboard Blue Origin rocket

VAN HORN, Texas, Dec 11 – The eldest daughter of pioneering U.S. Bezos arrived with members of Blue Origin’s recovery team to greet and embrace the newly minted citizen astronauts as they emerged from the capsule, all smiles, in their blue flight suits. The spacecraft itself is named for Alan Shepard, who in 1961 made […]

‘Players’ and ‘haters’ (Taylor’s version) headed for copyright trial

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. Playas songwriters Sean Hall and Nathan Butler alleged in a 2017 complaint that they were the first artists to combine the phrases “Playas, they gonna play / And haters, they gonna hate”. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald initially […]

Tradition again: Biden celebrates Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell at Kennedy Center Honors

Kennedy Center Honorees, operatic bass-baritone Justino Diaz, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, actress and singer-songwriter Bette Midler, and Motown founder, songwriter, producer, and director Berry Gordy, pose for the 44th Kennedy Center Honors class photo following the Medallion Ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S. The arts community […]

Nasdaq dives over 2% as tech stocks slide at end of volatile week | Reuters

“What you’re seeing is the influence of technology and that is directly related to Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia etc. “The numbers are indicating that the economy is very strong. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. …Read the full […]