T. Boone Pickens, a shrewd, publicity-savvy Texas oil tycoon who helped usher in the era of hostile takeovers and corporate “greenmail” in the 1980s, and who later became an influential voice on environmentally sound energy policy, died Sept. 11 at his home in Dallas. He was 91. His death was announced by his spokesman Jay Rosser, who did not give a precise cause. Mr. Pickens had been ailing since a series of minor strokes in 2016 that led to what he called a “Texas-sized fall.” Over a six-decade career of dramatic successes and setbacks, he had recently started to drill for oil on his 65,000-acre ranch in the Texas ... (full story)