Wednesday
Doctors’ pay gender gap
Houston doctors are among the highest paid in the nation, but women physicians doing the exact same jobs make an average of $106,000 less per year than men. Houston is tied for the fourth-worst gender disparity for doctors, according to findings by Doximity, a San Francisco-based medical profession social media network.
The Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce marked its 40-year anniversary with a business expo. With 4,000-plus members and corporate sponsorships from Fortune 500 and other companies, the chamber generated more than $1 million in revenue in 2015, tax records show.
Trump on tax rates
President Donald Trump proposed sharp reductions in individual and business income tax rates and a radical reordering of the tax code that would significantly benefit the wealthy, but he offered no explanation of how the plan would be financed.
Staying with NAFTA
President Donald Trump told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that he will not pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, just hours after administration officials said he was considering a draft executive order to do just that.
Penalty for Exxon Mobil
A federal judge has ordered Exxon Mobil to pay a civil penalty of nearly $20 million for releasing 10 million pounds of pollutants into the air from its Baytown refining and chemical complex over eight years.
British oil major BP announced the discovery of 200 million barrels of oil in a hidden cache in the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to a technological breakthrough allowing the company to see beneath geological formations that had foiled oil exploration for decades.