Daily Battle Research Articles

Challenges of Non-English Major Teachers in Teaching Senior High School English Subjects

This inquiry aimed to determine the challenges experienced by non-English major teachers in teaching Senior High School English subjects and their utilized coping mechanisms. It also sought to determine the relationship between the challenges encountered and the coping mechanisms applied. Moreover, the study aimed to discover the differences between teachers’ baccalaureate courses, challenges, and coping mechanisms. The patterns and associations of the variables were ascertained by using descriptive-correlational design. The extent of challenges faced and coping mechanisms applied were revealed through the descriptive tool. Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was used to know the relationship between the said challenges and coping mechanisms, and the differences between the variables and teachers’ baccalaureate courses were identified using the Kruskal-Wallis H Test. The study also employed the purposive sampling technique. The respondents of the study were the 50 teachers from Tanjay City Division, teaching in Tanjay City and Pamplona, Negros Oriental, Philippines. The researcher utilized a self-made questionnaire. The study revealed that non-English major teachers have challenges in teaching Senior High School English subjects specifically in the following areas: (a) teaching academic writing, (b) teaching writing one scene for one-act play applying the various elements, techniques, and literary devices, (c) teaching writing craft essay; (d) teaching speech writing; (e) selection of relevant resources specifically on choosing materials that are aligned in lesson objectives; and (f) deciding for curriculum-appropriate materials to use. The data also showed that online video tutorials, allowing colleagues/school heads/supervisors to observe their classes, and monitoring students’ performance are the most utilized coping mechanisms. The study concluded that despite the challenges encountered by non-English major teachers in teaching Senior High School English subjects, these teachers are still tough in facing their daily battles, which provide them chances to learn outside their comfort zones.

Posterior Fossa Tumors: Special Issue

This edition of APN is entirely dedicated to posterior fossa tumors. Very common in the daily routine of pediatric neurosurgeons, these tumors remain one of the most challenging pathologies we must face. The importance and complexity of the anatomical structures of the posterior fossa, associated with the enormous histological variety of neoplastic lesions in this region, make its therapeutic approach difficult and even more challenging. The degree of surgical resection plays a determining role in the prognosis and cure possibilities for the children with posterior fossa tumors; on the other hand, gross total resection is related to the much feared cerebellar mutism syndrome, related to serious cognitive and behavioral sequelae. Every pediatric neurosurgeon's nightmare, this subject deserves special attention in our edition. Ballestero and Juca review the literature, discuss the concepts of mutism, predisposing factors, pathophysiology, and available treatments.
 However, mutism prevention after surgical resection is essential. In addition to excellent mastery of microneurosurgery techniques and in-depth anatomical knowledge of the structures of the posterior fossa, pediatric neurosurgeons must use all the most advanced technologies to protect their patients and obtain the best results. Therefore, Kodangeski and Pinheiro discuss the use of electrophysiological monitoring during resection surgeries for posterior fossa tumors. Ahmed also emphasizes the importance of neuronavigation in these surgeries, as a significant tool to reduce morbidity and mortality.
 Around 70 to 90% of posterior fossa tumors present with hydrocephalus. The treatment of hydrocephalus before, during or after tumor resection is a very controversial subject, with different approaches among groups. Mandic retrospectively applies the success scores of endoscopic third ventriculocysternostomy in a group of patients with posterior fossa tumors and analyzes its efficiency.
 Costa pays special attention to posterior fossa ependymomas. Despite the explosion of genomic and epigenomic knowledge of these tumors in recent decades, surgery still plays an essential role in their treatment because the main objective as gross total resection represents a great technical challenge for the neurosurgeon.
 Besides to medulloblastomas, astrocytoma and ependymomas, more rarely other histological types can involve the posterior fossa and should be considered as differential diagnosis of these lesions. Therefore, Lopez presents clinical cases of choroid plexus papilloma and Rabelo Rodrigues reviews the cases of hemangioblastomas found in the literature.
 Even though posterior fossa tumors are predominant in children of preschool and school age, Dassi presents a series of cases in patients under two years of age, highlighting the histological characteristics and treatment strategies in this age group.
 The final result of this edition is a set of articles that highlight the complexity of posterior fossa tumors and the challenges of their treatment. Although these are the most common intracranial tumors in childhood and are part of the routine of every pediatric neurosurgery service, the war against those tumors has not been definitively won. We still lack greater understanding, and the exchange of experiences is increasingly necessary. We hope these articles can help all readers in their daily battles.
 Our special thanks to all the authors who worked on this edition and to the editorial staff who, with all their dedication, made it possible.
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‘GITA’ Cannot wait…

The author is a career banker with over 30 years of working experience. The job has given him an opportunity to interact extensively with people from all parts of India. One similarity that is profound, cutting across the landscape of this country, be it a farmer in a rural village in Gujarat, Executive Director of a Public Sector Undertaking in Delhi, a start-up entrepreneur in Bengaluru, or a motivational speaker in Chennai, the Indian DNA is dominated by Karma Theory and we Indians live the ‘Gita’ subconsciously. The article is an attempt to highlight the same for the students and the youth of our country. The work is subsequent to the current government’s announcement regarding the introduction of Gita as a part of the academic curriculum and the protests that followed against its implementation. The work brings out that Gita is a psychological treatise cutting across age, sex and affiliations. The work breaks the myth that Gita is post-retirement entertainment and establishes that it is a weapon that enables an individual to fight the daily battles of life. The Gita is the nerve centre of Indian culture and has influenced its civilisation. Gita meets the spiritual, emotional and cultural needs of a seeker and enhances resilience of the individual. So, hurry up, as Gita cannot wait. ‘GITA’ Cannot wait ….

Mulheres Exaustas: Sobre Incômodos e o Fazer Ciência na Contemporaneidade

ABSTRACT The exhaustion faced by academics served as the starting point for this special issue - edited, written, and reviewed exclusively by cis and trans women. We understand exhaustion as a consequence of historical and daily battles for gender equality, aggravated by the burden of reproductive work. Thus, even when exhausted, we accepted this challenge out of the conviction of the political role necessary to open spaces in the face of a masculine logic of science production. This editorial was structured based on recognizing the importance of producing, identifying, and living with the challenges necessary to disrupt oppression. These challenges come in the form of (1) bringing together female editors, authors, and reviewers from different regions, academic backgrounds, and diverse representations; (2) time, which revealed itself as an instrument of domination and gender violence; (3) the operationalization of the contradiction in producing an edition exclusively for women, considering the male logic of practicing science. This edition should be read as a pedagogical instrument to visualize the challenges experienced, and it is a call for collective responsibility in the fight to create space in everyday life, specifically in the academic field. Finally, if we are to combat injustices, we must provoke daily discomfort, and this edition set out to do just that.

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in portal hypertension: How to go further while staying on track?

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in portal hypertension: How to go further while staying on track?

Visualizing Stress and Coping Measures of Sari Nurses in Ozamiz City During Covid-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis resulted in abrupt changes in SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infections) nurses' life in healthcare systems, leading to stressful and overwhelming challenges in their daily battle against the virus. SARI Nurses are constantly faced with stressful situations that cause emotional exhaustion while managing complex care and treatment processes for multiple COVID-19 patients in a given time frame. Given the knowledge gap between the nurses' coping measures on job stress during the pandemic, it is relevant to understand the stress and coping measures of the SARI ward nurses in depth. This study was underpinned by the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) to see the person as a bio-psychosocial being that interacts with the changing environment. Furthermore, this study utilized the qualitative narrative approach to explore the SARI nurses' stress and coping measures. The participants were selected through purposive sampling for the interview, and the gathered data were analyzed using narrative, thematic analysis by Michelle Butina. The themes generated reveal that the SARI nurses experienced situational uncertainties and struggles fitting in. However, along the course of their work, they were able to support each other by sharing concerns that made them adapt to the changing environment. As a result, the SARI nurses achieved continuity in carrying out their job effectively. Learning from their adaptive coping mechanism may help the health providers' community face fewer difficulties in another similar situation. Keywords : bio-psychosocial, challenges, healthcare systems, Roy Adaptation Model, Severe Acute Respiratory Infections

Covid-19 and the lost hidden curriculum: locating an evolving narrative ecology of Schools-in-Covid

ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic brought seismic changes to children and families, with schools at the forefront of the daily battle to maintain learning. We report on our reflexive thematic analysis of data collected with 28 participants in 14 schools in England during the summer of 2021, following two extensive national lockdowns, and two transition points of returning to school under Covid safety measures. Our data reflects an emerging narrative ecology of Schools-in-Covid, developing as the pandemic continued to unfold for children and families, schools, policy makers and ourselves, in a co-construction of what this pandemic has brought to our lives. We present our findings as a reportage, as our collective experience continues to unfold. Our superordinate themes re-position the UK Government priority of academic catch up as secondary to mental health, and argue the re-establishment of the hidden curriculum was the main vehicle for social and emotional learning (SEL) and wellbeing through direct instruction, modelling and practice, typically associated with improved attitudes about the self, others and school and with consequential higher attainment. We report a partial inversion of expectations; rather than a heavy emphasis towards widening disadvantage, our participants report some benefit to vulnerable children and young people who gained from a changed in-person learning environment, and overwhelming distress to those deemed less vulnerable. Our findings identify Schools in the Community, Care before Curriculum, Agility (adapt, survive and thrive), and Reflective and Responsive, as the key aspects of an emerging narrative ecology of Schools-in-Covid.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Pediatric Health Care Workers: Understanding the Response to COVID-19.

IntroductionThis research aims to assess knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of PHCW regarding COVID-19.MethodData collected using an electronic survey sent to pediatric health care workers.ResultsAge was not likely to influence willingness to care for patients with COVID-19. Males were more likely to be willing to care for patients than female. Nurse practitioners were more likely to be willing to care for patients with COVID-19 than physicians. Availability of proper personal protective equipment, COVID-19 knowledge, and training did not influence willingness to care for COVID-19 patients. Healthcare workers with a higher risk of COVID-19-related sickness, and who received most of their COVID-19 information from social media, were less likely to be willing to care for COVID positive patients. As perception of hospital preparedness increased, reluctance to care for COVID-19 positive patients decreased.DiscussionHospital preparedness and social media exposure play a significant role in willingness to care for patients with COVID-19.

Environment, Environmental Crimes, Environmental Forensic Medicine, Environmental Risk Management and Environmental Criminology.

Forensic medicine has always held the human environment, either seen as a source for pathological agents or the background of judicial events, in great consideration. The concept of the environment has evolved through time, expanding itself to include all the physical and virtual sub-spaces in which we exist. We can nowadays talk of technoenvironmental reality; virtual spaces exploded because of the COVID-19 pandemic making us come to terms with the fact that those are the places where we work, where we socialize and, even, where we meet our doctors and can be cured. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has contributed to shaping new virtual realities that have got their own rules yet to be discovered, carved and respected. We already fight a daily battle to save our natural environment: along with the danger of green crimes, comes the need for environmental justice and environmental forensic medicine that will probably develop a forensic branch and an experimental branch, to implement our technical culture leading to definition of the real dimension of the risk itself to improve the role of legal medicine in the Environmental Risk Management. While green criminology addresses widespread green crimes, a virtual environment criminology will also develop, maybe with a contribution of AI in the justice field. For a sustainable life, the environmental revolution must rapidly take place, and there is the need for a new justice, a new forensic medicine and a new criminology too.

Slobodne zone republike Srbije - poslovni rezultati 2011-2021 i budući razvoj

Free zones are an effective economic instrument that provide the host country with a rapid influx of investments, increased employment, access to new technologies, education, work, industrialization and increased exports. Serbian free zones specialize in industrial production intended for export. They provide their tenants (companies who use the zones) with ease in doing business by exempting them from customs and tax duties. Within certain free zones in Serbia, there are benefits offered by local self-government and they can contribute to a more favorable investment environment compared to other locations. About 10,000 free zones in the world participate in the daily battle for investors, including 82 free zones in the European Union. By offering various services, free zones fight to retain existing and attract new investors, and the platform of free zones provides the fastest and most practical way of flexible development in international trade and increasing the attractiveness of countries for productive international investments. A detailed analysis of the results of the establishment and operation of free zones in Serbia has never been done until now. Previous analyzes were limited to textual and tabular presentations of the results of free zone operations in the previous year and did not provide any relevant conclusions and did not propose measures to improve the operation of both free zones and free zone user companies, nor the applied concept of free zones in Serbia.

Living with bronchiectasis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Living with bronchiectasis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Prayer, Meditation & Spiritual Trial: Luther's Account of Life in the Spirit by Gordon L. Isaac

Reviewed by: Prayer, Meditation & Spiritual Trial: Luther's Account of Life in the Spirit by Gordon L. Isaac Steven Bielenberg Prayer, Meditation & Spiritual Trial: Luther's Account of Life in the Spirit. By Gordon L. Isaac. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2017. 206 pp. Through his sermons and writings, Luther promoted a daily theology that ranged beyond the world of clerics and academics. In a variety of ways, he taught the laity to pray and meditate regularly. He prepared them for spiritual trials. Regardless of the believer's education, Luther believed the rules of oratio, meditatio, and tentatio to be the basis for every Christian's life in the Spirit. From his own experience, Luther knew the terror of the law and the consolation of the cross of Christ. He knew the daily battle to love God and to [End Page 237] be Christ to one's neighbor. Life in the Spirit can only be lived in a context of daily prayer, meditation, and the wrestling that comes in spiritual trial. Luther made it abundantly clear that the Word of God must not only be read and studied. One's theology must also be lived. Throughout, the author gives practical illustrations of living in the Spirit and God's Word from Luther's published writings and personal letters. In the latter, Luther is conversational in his approach, as one Christian comforting another who struggles with sin, temptation, doubt, death, and the devil. Luther doesn't spout theology; he lives his theology, walking closely beside others. "Lived theology" begins with prayer (oratio). The rule of prayer is informed by Holy Scripture and guided by the Spirit of God. "The goal of prayer is thus to find oneself in the hands of the Holy Spirit, who will enlighten the mind through the text of Scripture" (30). The next rule for "lived theology" is meditation (meditatio). Isaac traces Luther's own spiritual history as he meditated on God's Word and wrestled with the God of scripture. As the Christian is terrified by God's wrath and his inability to keep the law perfectly, the Holy Spirit prepares him to receive the forgiveness of sins and the righteousness of Christ. This is an ongoing process; "the strangling of the old Adam does not take place all at once" (83). Isaac has several helpful discussions on Luther's distinction between law and gospel. To rightly distinguish between the two, one must consider Christ to be God's gift to us and not merely an example for us to follow. If we take Christ only as an example, we turn the gospel into yet another series of laws. For many, Christianity has only been another variety of moralism, an avoidance of sin and nothing more. The third rule is spiritual trial (tentatio/Anfechtung). Luther's own life offered nearly every kind of trial: fear of God's wrath, fear of death, persecution, and plague. When this book landed on my desk, little did we know that 2020 would provide extreme opportunities to be in prayer and meditation as we experienced spiritual and physical trials. Isaac's discussion of Luther's 1527 treatise, Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague, is timelier now than ever. In all trials, [End Page 238] personal or public, Luther leads his hearer to Christ, even as the devil is working his worst. His bold pastoral letter to Jerome Weller in 1530, quoted at length, should be more widely known. As always, physical and spiritual concern for one's neighbor is part of living our theology, directed by the Word and the Spirit. Isaac concludes with Luther's use of Abraham as an exemplar of all three rules, drawing chiefly from his Lectures on Galatians. While Abraham and Christ suffered trials we hope we never know, we can turn to their examples in hope as we face our own trials. This volume serves as a helpful guide for those who strive for a "lived theology." Scholarly yet accessible, Isaac's work clarifies our understanding of Luther's development in his daily application of oratio, meditatio, and tentatio. Isaac's carefully chosen examples will encourage readers in their own concern for each other...

Tin City: Nomadic occupation, colonization and resistance in the sand dunes of Stockton Bight, Australia

This article explores nomadic site occupation as a form of planetary colonization involving both human and non-human agents. Conventional understandings of temporary occupation are often humancentric with little attention paid to the disruption of extant site ecologies and processes. The latter are particularly pressing concerns in nomadic settlements located in precarious landscapes. Taking the latter as its focus, this article engages the earth as an agent resisting its own colonization in the Australian-licensed squatter settlement known colloquially as Tin City. Located within the largest mobile sand dune structure in New South Wales, Tin City is an assemblage of several self-built fishing shacks accommodating a nomadic population. Its occupants engage in a daily battle against the shifting sands that threaten to subsume their temporary homes. Located in an area of significant indigenous heritage, the Tin City settlement has become a tourist attraction shrouded in local lore. Current discourses about it and its architectures generally focus on its unusual aesthetics, its contested sociopolitical histories and its ecology, with some discussion on the impacts of European colonization on the sand dune’s dynamic geomorphology. To concentrate on the latter, the article develops and deploys the posthumanist conceptualization of the earth posited by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani in his ficto-critical text Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. Negarestani ascribes the earth with sentient and agentic capacity, whilst the nomads who traverse its surfaces become the penultimate planetary colonizers. Tin City’s occupation thus becomes a story of colonization and resistance narrated by the earth itself, and a reminder that the production and consumption of architectural forms does not need to be confined to that which is conventionally human.

Zdobywanie miast siłami zgrupowania pancernego podczas mławsko-elbląskiej operacji ofensywnej Armii Czerwonej w styczniu 1945 roku

The paper presents battles for cities during the Mława–Elbląg offensive operation, conducted by units of the 5th Armoured Guard on January 17–26, according to the orders of Marshal Konstanty Rokossowski, who commanded the 2nd Belarusian Front, and Colonel General Vasily Wolski. The findings, based on the documentation of the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and related literature on the subject, present the daily battles for cities led by armoured units and their assigned support. The border territories they occupied, marching routes and combat operations are noted, alongside the problem raised by commanders of insufficient support for tanks with infantry forces. The article describes the occupation or capture of: Mława, Działdowo, Nidzica, Stębark, Ostróda, Iława, Morąg, Zalewo, Małdyty, Pasłęk, Młynary and Tolkmicko as well as the initial battles for Elbląg.

Understanding the experience of sleep disturbance in psoriasis: a qualitative exploration using the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation.

Psoriasis is associated with significant morbidity, which negatively impacts upon quality of life. Sleep disturbance is reported to be common in patients with psoriasis and is associated with physical and psychological variables, although there is little published work in this area. Understanding sleep and the factors involved in its disturbance in psoriasis is a potentially important clinical area given the role of sleep in health and disease processes. To explore the experience of sleep and sleep disturbance in psoriasis using the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CS-SRM). Semistructured interviews were conducted with adults diagnosed with psoriasis. Interview questions were informed by the CS-SRM and previous research. Framework analysis was applied, including coding data into the CS-SRM dimensions and allowing additional inductive themes to emerge. Seventeen people with psoriasis (nine women, eight men; aged 19-86years) were interviewed about sleep and sleep disturbance. Seven themes emerged, with six accounted for by the CS-SRM: characteristics of sleep disturbance, change in sleep patterns, thoughts about and symptoms of disease disturbing sleep, impact of poor sleep on daily life, attempts to improve sleep, a daily battle for control and a seventh relating to metacognitive processes. A reciprocal relationship between sleep and psoriasis was evident across themes with interactions between key sleep-related thoughts, emotions and behaviours. This study showed that sleep disturbance is a persistent concern for people with psoriasis; it has a 24-h impact, and interacts with the psychological and physical aspects of psoriasis. The distress and frustration felt when managing sleep disturbance perpetuated problematic sleep. Addressing this with currently available sleep treatments may therefore confer sleep and psoriasis-related benefits for people living with this condition.

Bringing heaven down to earth: reading the plan of Ronchamp

Valery’s cry for clarity stiffens my resolve to write from the position of a working life in architectural practice. Sometimes we need to raise our heads above the heat of daily battle with budgets and restrictive regulations, to remind ourselves of what it was that made architecture such a compelling field of study in the first place. Personal experience of works of architecture persuades us that architectural design provides useful evidence of human intelligence. And there is a case to be made for connecting the widely accepted value of historic architecture to the less well-established position of contemporary architecture in the culture, to pay attention to what Robin Evans once called ‘the small poetic voice of modern architecture’.3

Rehabilitation care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable and treatable disease characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airway obstruction, and/or alveolar damage, usually caused by significant exposure to harmful particles or gas. The most common respiratory symptoms are shortness of breath, cough, and/or expectoration (GOLD 2019). Patients underestimate these symptoms. Illness is the leading cause of mortality. It affects around 329 million people worldwide. These figures show an increase of 65% since 1990. In 2013, the disease increased by 2,900,000 deaths, up from 2,400,000 in 1990. The number of deaths is expected to continue increasing, due to more pronounced exposure to risk factors, the most significant of which is smoking. Prognosis indicates that by 2020 this negative trend will deepen. According to various estimates, 4-6% of the population over 40 in Europe suffers from COPD, with the incidence of the disease increasing with age. Daily activities, such as climbing stairs or walking on a slope, become a daily battle for those living with COPD. Most people do not spend time thinking about their breathing, but other people’s daily lives are centered around it. COPD is a serious illness, but there are some steps to prevent it from getting worse. This worrying data is a strong argument in the need to do more for people with COPD to keep their condition under control. The purpose of the study is to review the literature on the usefulness of respiratory physiotherapy.

‘Mightier Than Marx’: Hassoldt Davis and American Cold War Politics in Postwar Ivory Coast

ABSTRACTUsing the travels of Hassoldt Davis in Ivory Coast to explore the global Cold War in French West Africa in the 1950s, this article argues that the main line of confrontation in the postwar era did not always pit Americans against Russians. In many instances, the struggle for the mind and soul of Africans was between the Americans and the French. The study highlights the role of everyday technology in the expansion of the American informal empire. By focusing on Davis and the significance of low-tech artifacts, the article suggests that in our scrutiny of Cold War science/technology, we need to supplement the study of the various production regimes of consumer goods with a comparable research on consumption and how they mediated the daily battles of the era. Such approach not only underscores the historical reality of the ‘social life of things’, but also gives agency to non-state actors as both users of Cold War technoscience and as participants in the politics that informed its mobilization on the world stage. Besides bringing Francophone Africa in the historiography of US–Africa relations, the article demonstrates a convergence of vision among American consular agents, US transnational corporations and an idiosyncratic travel writer.

The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler

Reviewed by: The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler Elizabeth Bush Brendler, Carol The Two Mutch Sisters; illus. by Lisa Brown. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 [34p] ISBN 978-0-544-43074-7 $17.99 Reviewed from galleys R 4-8 yrs Violet and Ruby Mutch may have distinct tastes, but they share the pleasure of accruing possessions. They launch their collecting habit as little girls with toy teapots (purple for Violet, red for Ruby), expand it as they age with complementary sundials, snorkels, clavichords, and bee skeps, and arrive at maturity in a house packed to the gills with pairs of items from everything from lamps to gargoyles. Ruby, the neater of the two with a penchant for mid-century modern, makes good on her threat to finally pack up her stuff and move, but her initial relief at having a tidy house to herself gives way to feeling that something’s missing. Readers-aloud may want [End Page 280] to pause here and allow children to predict what will happen next: surely sisterly affection will reunite them to either clean or cope. Brendler has a quite different resolution in mind, though, and in a plot twist that it’s likely nobody will anticipate, Violet moves both houses to adjoining lots: “They had each other close by . . . and that was just enough.” This refreshingly bucks the current pro-minimalism trend, and in redirecting discussion to living harmoniously with a sibling, the title manages to respect individual differences while acknowledging that no effort is too great to keep the bond of sibling affection intact. Brown’s cartoony watercolors instill warmth amid the silliness, and sisters facing the daily battle over stuff and space may project themselves onto lanky neatnik Ruby and zaftig shabby chic Violet a few decades down the road. Copyright © 2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

EPA's Rollercoaster of Repealing Methane Rule for Oil and Gas

Over the past two months, a daily battle has been raging between oil and gas interests, states, and environmentalists in the DC Circuit over the methane new source performance standards (NSPS) for oil and gas operations.