Energy
Two Maryland Power Plants to Switch from Coal to Oil
Environmental advocates say the plans to abandon coal-burning are commendable, but that they’re concerned by the plants’ proposed switch to burning oil, also a highly polluting fossil fuel.
Consistently higher oil prices have finally proven too alluring to resist, and as a result, more drillers have decided to ramp up drilling and completion activity
As lithium prices hit record highs, there are fears that the decades-long decline in battery costs could soon come to an end and, in doing so, disrupt the EV boom
Low natural gas deliveries from Russia appear to have artificially tightened the European gas market, the International Energy Agency’s Executive Director Fatih Birol said on Thursday.
Health
Novak Djokovic Leaves Australia
A turbulent couple of weeks for the Serbian tennis star ended with his deportation, with the government arguing his presence risked spreading anti-vaccine views.
Florida Is Living With Covid—and Freedom
The Omicron surge has triggered a mutation in the conventional wisdom about Covid-19. The virus “is here to stay,” oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel and two other experts who advised the Biden transition proclaimed in a Jan. 6 article for the Journal of the American Medical Association, “A National Strategy for the ‘New Normal’ of Life With Covid.” That means no more “perpetual state of emergency”: “The goal for the ‘new normal’ . . . does not include eradication or elimination.”
Resilience
A review of 12 studies, including five “gold standard” randomized controlled trials, shows that this simple vitamin saves lives when given in the right dose. Vitamin C can prevent a serious Covid infection.
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