Bitcoin miner Riot increased its hash rate in September by 16.7% (to 5.6 exahashes per second) while expanding its Whinstone facility in Texas. “We will remain focused on aggressively increasing...
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How Climate Change Is Impacting Winemakers In Texas
Aerial shot of William Chris Vineyards in Hye, Texas. Photo courtesy of William Chris Wine Company. 2019 Hill Country Light LLC In recent years, the Lone Star State has experienced record-high summers...
Texas Objects to Celsius Plan to Fund Operations With Stablecoin Sales
Celsius filed for bankruptcy in July, and the case is now moving through the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The latest filing from the Texas State Securities Board and th...
Celsius Sale Plan Facing Objection from Texas and Vermont Regulatory
The regulators of Texas and Vermont express dissent to Celsius’s plan to sell its stablecoin holdings. According to the filing Celsius can continue alleged securities violations and a general la...
Celsius stablecoin sale plan faces objections from securities regulators
State securities regulators in Texas and Vermont are objecting to crypto lender Celsius’s plan to sell its stablecoin holdings. The Texas State Securities Board, the Texas Department of Banking ...
Chevron Sells Global HQs, Downsizes California Office Space Amid Texas Expansion: Report
Reuters European shares tumble on recession angst, grim German inflation data European shares tumbled on Thursday as relief from the Bank of England’s bond buy-back plan to soothe distressed mar...
Celebrate Dallas Mavericks History At The ‘Mavs Vault’ During The State Fair Of Texas
The Larry O’Brien Trophy and the Dallas Mavericks 2011 NBA Championship banner on display at the … [+] Mavs Vault. Doyle Rader The State Fair of Texas has a new attraction this year. NBA f...
Texas AG Paxton fled home with his wife to avoid subpoena in abortion case
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served a subpoena Monday in a federal lawsuit filed by groups seeking to help Texans receive out-of-state abortions, court filings show. ...
Texas AG Ken Paxton Fled Home To Escape Subpoena In Abortion Rights Case, Court Filing Shows
Topline Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home along with his wife Monday in an attempt to evade a subpoena in an abortion rights case that was set for hearing in a federal court on Tuesday, ...
Texas Pushes Back With Municipal Bonds
Texas makes a stand getty Political push-back comes in many forms. In a September 12, 2022 amendment to a municipal bond Official Statement for bonds issued by the City of Anna, Texas, they drew a gia...
Texas Senator Ted Cruz Extremely Bullish On Bitcoin, Believes It An Asset For The Environment
Bitcoin’s a Net Positive American Senator Ted Cruz believes that Bitcoin and BTC mining is beneficial to the economy and the environment. Cruz asserts during the Texas Blockchain Summit that Bitcoin f...
De Santis And Abbot Shuttling Migrants North To Make A Point
Governor Ron DeSantis is leading the campaign of shipping migrants northbound to underline the … [+] problems on America’s southern border. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images) Gett...
Texas Is Primed To Be Our Nation’s Direct Air Capture Hub
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR NRG – The W. A. Parish power plant on Friday Sept. 5, 2014 in rural Fort Bend … [+] County, TX. Ground was broken today on the Petra...
The First Ever Rivian Electric Truck-Powered Vasectomy? Here’s The Reaction
When the power went out in an Austin, Texas, clinic, urologist Christopher Yang, MD, used a Rivian … [+] electric pickup truck to power a vasectomy. Here is a picture of such a electric vehicle ...
Tesla Stock: Company Considers Texas Lithium Refinery, As China Controls Global Capacity
Tesla (TSLA) is eyeing the prospect of building a lithium processing facility in Texas, as the company looks to take more control over key manufacturing components amid rising prices. Tesla stock was ...
Two Minors Hospitalized Following Shooting In Uvalde, Gang Violence Suspected
Topline Two minors were injured in a shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Thursday evening in a suspected gang-related incident which comes a few months after a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in...
Uber Eats Launching In Calif., Texas This Fall
Topline Uber Eats announced it has struck a 10-year deal with autonomous vehicle startup Nuro on Thursday to test driverless food deliveries in two cities in California and Texas—the latest push towar...
Facing Hidden Costs Of Going Green, Investor Indifference To Level Of Impact, And Unachievable Climate Commitments
Mountain man after a storm during sunset getty Climate change remains the greatest challenge of our time. At the same time, to stave off the growing backlash against sustainable investing, including T...
Texas Sees Historic 26% Surge in Tax Revenue as Inflation Soars
(Bloomberg) — Texas’s tax revenue is rising by historic amounts, in part as economic growth and soaring inflation drive up the price of goods. Most Read from Bloomberg The Lone Star state collec...
Texas Bitcoin Mining Boom Might Be Reaching Its End, But Grid Operators Are The Happiest
Advertisement     Mining operators in Texas have slowed their operations, given global power shortages. Symptoms of the glut include selling electrical equipment and a...
Gatik Notches Yet Another Major Customer In Pitney Bowes, With Latest Automated Trucking Deployment In Dallas
Gatik’s autonomous class 6 fleet will establish a continuous, operational loop across the Pitney … [+] Bowes e-commerce logistics network in Dallas, making multiple deliveries per day. Gatik Gat...
Fed Money Comes To Plug Or Re-Plug Abandoned Wells In USA.
An orphan oil well, for which no one is taking legal or financial responsibility, sits abandoned in … [+] Kern County outside of Bakersfield, California The Washington Post via Getty Images Oil ...
Texas reports what may be the first U.S. death from monkeypox
Monkeypox virus, illustration. Thom Leach | Science Photo Library | Getty Images Texas health officials said Tuesday that a person diagnosed with monkeypox died in what may be the nation’s first...
Texas Crypto Miners Texas Receive Massive Electricity Request From Crypto Miners
Crypto miners are trooping into Texas to request more electrical power. The Electricity Reliability Council of Texas stated that the increased demand is over 30% of the expected demand estimated over ...
NRG-Funded Report Says Texas Ratepayers On Hook For $10.5 Billion Due To Uri, Oklahomans Facing $2.8 Billion In Debt
Transmission towers near the CenterPoint Energy power plant on July 11, 2022 in Houston. Ratepayers … [+] in ERCOT are being saddled with $10.5 billion in debt due to losses utilities incurred d...
Kimberly Kelly’s Love Of Traditional Country Shines Throughout New Album With Toby Keith’s Show Dog Records
Country singer/songwriter Kimberly Kelly Credit: David McClister Kimberly Kelly radiates warmth, positivity, and lots of enthusiasm whether she’s singing on stage or talking one-on-one with friends, f...
Crypto mining can benefit Texas energy industry: Comptroller’s office
The United States filled in the wide gap in Bitcoin (BTC) mining that was left open by China by the end of June 2021. Despite looming rumors of high power consumption, officials in Texas, one of the f...
Texas Consumers On Hook For $10 Billion In Debt Incurred During Winter Storm Uri
A resident of Fort Worth, Texas pulls a sled on February 17, 2021, after Winter Storm Uri hit the … [+] state. Texas ratepayers are now on the hook for some $10 billion in debt incurred by utili...