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Former Harris County Judge Ed Emmett has been named a fellow in energy and transportation policy at the Baker Institute.  At the institute, Emmett, who managed the nation’s third-largest county for more than 11 years, will serve as the lead of the inaugural Houston Global Freight Summit. Emmett’s research will also focus on carbon-capture sequestration and hydrogen in the Gulf Coast region. 

“In 2015, there were about 100 oil rigs operating in Argentina, and by the first half of 2019, there were still around 60 rigs,” said energy fellow Francisco Monaldi. “Today, there are no rigs operating in the country. A catastrophe.” 

"Dr. Fauci said the next couple of weeks are crunch time, but I would say it's the next couple of days," said fellow Peter Hotez of the surge in coronavirus cases. "We've already let this thing go on for too long, and the cases [in Houston and Texas] are rising vertically." Hotez called for immediate action by state and local leaders to contain the virus. 

Fellow Neal Lane, former science advisor to President Clinton, recalled how the White House helped broker a truce between two teams competing to sequence the human genome.

“The data and analysis that emerge from this project will provide a unique window from which to observe important trends and events" in the political and social history of Texas, the country’s second-most-populous state, said political science fellow Mark Jones.