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  • How Texas' Abortion Ban Hurts Big Oil's Effort to Transform Its Workforce

    09/23/2022 1:17:03 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 25 replies
    Reuters via USN ^ | September 23, 2022 | By Liz Hampton and Sabrina Valle
    DENVER/HOUSTON (Reuters) - As Texas officials moved to restrict abortion, promote Christianity in schools and the state's power grid teetered on collapse, oil worker Steven Beaman and his wife Hayley Hollands decided it was time to live elsewhere. By April, Beaman had joined a communications firm in Colorado, leaving behind a more than decade-long career in oil and gas, and Hollands, an attorney, soon followed, forsaking the state over its increasingly strident politics and polarization. "It is kind of the first time I've reckoned with the idea that I don't think I'm going to live in my home state ever...