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Meanwhile, Iran recently declared a 2 day public holiday due to a dangerous heat wave. It's an interesting contrast of government actions.
It is good to hear about which US states are actually taking any action at all, even if it does seem to be very conservative action at the behest of industry.
AP site is in violation of a bunch of accessibility guidelines though, so here's a mirror: archive.today link alternative
I fucking hate this place sometimes.
How Texans haven't rioted after the last 3 electricity grid meltdowns is beyond me, as a total foreigner. For all the "don't mess with Texas" rhetoric I hear, it seems like Texas keeps getting messed.
Our state government is all hat and no cattle.
Feature, not bug. The rich want the rest of us off their land, and what better way to do that than to let nature do the dirty work?