Fuel

Reportedly due to high fuel consumption and breakdown rates.

“When companies boycott fossil fuels, they intentionally choke off the lifeblood of capital to Kentucky’s signature industries,” Treasurer Ball said. “Traditional energy sources fuel our Kentucky economy, provide much needed jobs, and warm our homes. Kentucky must not allow our signature industries to be irreparably damaged based upon the ideological whims of a select few.”

Renewable energy sources, including wind turbines and solar panels, struggle to meet elevated energy demand during Christmas Eve snowstorms in the northeastern US and Texas, forcing utilities to burn fossil fuels to prevent power outages.

Investigative journalist Jack Murphy reported that the CIA is using sleeper cells from a NATO ally to carry out attacks inside Russia.

Plastic recycling is inefficient, wasteful, and potentially harmful to the environment, with a low recycling rate in the United States and high costs for collecting, sorting, and reprocessing plastic waste, making it not a viable option for managing plastic waste.

Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, Representatives and Senators read before voting on.

About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning.

Over a thousand faith leaders in the United States sign a petition urging a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and calling on the government to take a leadership role in ending the war.

Several US states divest approximately $11.7 billion from BlackRock due to concerns about the company's commitment to ESG principles, which may present obstacles to state pension funds and expose investors to risks.

Committee will evaluate “the investment practices of financial services firms and how those practices affect the state’s public pensions.”