🛢 The Environmental Protection Agency in partnership with the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and academic researchers says it will conduct helicopter overflights with infrared spectrometer to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region.
The announcement came four days after an investigation that showed 533 oil and gas facilities in the region are emitting excessive amounts of methane and named the companies most responsible. Colorless and odorless, methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps 83 times more heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
The agency said it will initiate enforcement actions against the companies responsible that could include administrative enforcement actions and referrals to the Justice Department.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The announcement came four days after an investigation that showed 533 oil and gas facilities in the region are emitting excessive amounts of methane and named the companies most responsible. Colorless and odorless, methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps 83 times more heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
The agency said it will initiate enforcement actions against the companies responsible that could include administrative enforcement actions and referrals to the Justice Department.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍22🔥3
🎞 HBO Max will be replaced next year by a new service combined with Discovery Plus. Early in the week, the company made the decision to remove the nearly complete Batgirl from the release calendar and shuttle it off to the vault. Additional films exclusive to HBO Max disappeared from the service—but are still available to buy or rent.
“HBO Max has a competitive feature set, but it has had performance and customer issues,” Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav said on an earnings call today. He went on to claim Discovery Plus has a better tech stack and would become the core of the new service which will combine the content of HBO Max.
It’s not clear what Warner Brothers Discovery will call the new combined service, but it’s certain we will be hearing more in the year to come.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
“HBO Max has a competitive feature set, but it has had performance and customer issues,” Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav said on an earnings call today. He went on to claim Discovery Plus has a better tech stack and would become the core of the new service which will combine the content of HBO Max.
It’s not clear what Warner Brothers Discovery will call the new combined service, but it’s certain we will be hearing more in the year to come.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
💩17👍1😁1
🚨 The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting helped fuel the racial justice protests that rocked the nation in 2020.
The charges are another effort to hold law enforcement accountable for the killing of the 26-year-old medical worker after one of the officers was acquitted of state charges earlier this year.
The Justice Department is also conducting a non-criminal investigation of the Louisville Police Department, announced last year, that is probing whether the department has a pattern of using excessive force and conducting unreasonable search and seizures.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The charges are another effort to hold law enforcement accountable for the killing of the 26-year-old medical worker after one of the officers was acquitted of state charges earlier this year.
The Justice Department is also conducting a non-criminal investigation of the Louisville Police Department, announced last year, that is probing whether the department has a pattern of using excessive force and conducting unreasonable search and seizures.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍9💩5
⚖️ Oscar Award-winning actor, Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay nearly $31 million in damages over alleged sexual misconduct behind the scenes of Netflix’s hit political drama, House of Cards. The payment from Spacey will go to the show’s producer, MRC.
An arbitrator in November 2021, after going through 8 days of live testimony and 20 hours of videotaped deposition testimony, ruled in favor of MRC, awarding the company $29.5 million in damages. That award has been upheld by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana with the judge ruling that it was not even close. The award to MRC will also include an extra $1.4 million in attorney fees and costs.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
An arbitrator in November 2021, after going through 8 days of live testimony and 20 hours of videotaped deposition testimony, ruled in favor of MRC, awarding the company $29.5 million in damages. That award has been upheld by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Red Recana with the judge ruling that it was not even close. The award to MRC will also include an extra $1.4 million in attorney fees and costs.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👎17👍8
🚙 Volkswagen announced that the 2023 ID.4 electric crossover SUV, which the automaker just started producing at its factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will start at the suggested price of $37,495 — making it one of the more affordable crossovers on the market.
Combined with the federal EV tax credit of $7,500 — which may be renewed under the Senate Democrat’s new reconciliation package that’s currently under debate — the ID.4’s price could come down even more.
Originally, the automaker had said it wanted its US-made ID.4s to start at $35,000 — or $27,500 with the federal tax credit. When it was first announced in 2020, VW made a point of emphasizing that the ID.4 was priced to be a high-volume, mass-market vehicle — a car for “the millions, not the millionaires.”
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Combined with the federal EV tax credit of $7,500 — which may be renewed under the Senate Democrat’s new reconciliation package that’s currently under debate — the ID.4’s price could come down even more.
Originally, the automaker had said it wanted its US-made ID.4s to start at $35,000 — or $27,500 with the federal tax credit. When it was first announced in 2020, VW made a point of emphasizing that the ID.4 was priced to be a high-volume, mass-market vehicle — a car for “the millions, not the millionaires.”
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍19💩2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Lady Gaga confirmed her casting in “Joker 2” by posting a musical teaser to social media. Todd Phillips, who directed and co-wrote the 2019 film first teased "Joker: Folie à Deux" back in June, will star Gaga opposite Joaquin Phoenix, returning to the role of Joker after winning the Oscar for best actor thanks to his performance in the 2019 first installment.
Phillips’ original “Joker” became a box office phenomenon in 2019, grossing just over $1 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history. Gaga was circling the role of Harley Quinn in the upcoming “Joker” sequel, which is set to be a musical. Warner Bros. will release “Joker: Folie à Deux” in theaters Oct. 4, 2024.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Phillips’ original “Joker” became a box office phenomenon in 2019, grossing just over $1 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history. Gaga was circling the role of Harley Quinn in the upcoming “Joker” sequel, which is set to be a musical. Warner Bros. will release “Joker: Folie à Deux” in theaters Oct. 4, 2024.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
💩26👍4❤1
A shooting took place on Thursday in a large shopping mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a row broke out among shoppers in one of the stores. The perpetrators haven’t yet been found.
According to Bloomington police, no one was injured
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
According to Bloomington police, no one was injured
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
💩15👍7🔥3
⚡️⚡️There is a tendency to use AUKUS for NATO purposes, Lavrov says
👍34❤2
⚡️Russia is ready to discuss prisoners' exchange with US within already existing channels
👍34💩2❤1
Sputnik International
🗣 In an exclusive comment to Sputnik, Alexander Vinnik's lawyer Zoe Konstantopoulou speaks about his case and his extradition to Greece. Subscribe to @SputnikInt
⚡️⚡️ Russian citizen Vinnik was flown to US by private plane, his family says
👎22💩3
❤5👍2
⚡️ Eight deputies of the German Bundestag intend to visit Taiwan at the end of October, DPA news agency reports
👎30💩23😱2
South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol chose not to interrupt his vacation to meet Nancy Pelosi during her trip to Asia, preferring instead to speak on the phone.
🗣 “President Yoon’s vacation schedule and Speaker Pelosi’s visit to the Republic of Korea overlapped, and we did not rearrange our schedule,” his office said
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🗣 “President Yoon’s vacation schedule and Speaker Pelosi’s visit to the Republic of Korea overlapped, and we did not rearrange our schedule,” his office said
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍43🔥6💩5
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
📹 Russia's Ministry of Defense has published footage showing a platoon of Russian flamethrowers destroying Ukrainian strongholds
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
🔥38👍29
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
📹 A pensioner from Lisichansk has spoken about how Ukrainian forces did whatever they wanted in the town: from setting local residents’ houses on fire to stealing
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍23👎6😱2🔥1
⚡️ Blinken calls Chinese military drills near Taiwan serious escalation
💩49👎16❤3👍2
⚡️⚡️ China to impose sanctions against Pelosi and her closest relations after provocative visit to Taiwan, Chinese Foreign Ministry says
👍76🔥10😱1