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Manitoba government questioned over push for rate freeze on electricity
Manitoba Hydro posted a net loss of $157 million in the last fiscal year and is set to end up in the red...
What is China’s Jinjiang, the BYD contractor under fire in Brazil?
Jinjiang has rejected the claim about workers in slavery-like conditions in a Brazil factory.
‘Dangerous new era’: climate change spurs disaster in 2024
Nowhere was spared the devastating impact of supercharged climate disasters in 2024.
Move over Mercedes: Chinese cars grab Mexican market share
Asian brands benefited from an exemption from import tariffs on electric vehicles.
Big Oil backtracks on renewables push as climate agenda falters
Major European energy companies are slowing and sometimes reversing their renewables investments.
Brazil says workers at China’s BYD site are victims of human trafficking
BYD affiliate Jinjiang said that the portrayal of the workers as "enslaved" was inaccurate.
Australian bushfire burns area the size of Singapore
Firefighters in Victoria fight a massive bushfire in Grampians National Park, burning 74,000 hectares — about the size of Singapore.
New York to fine fossil fuel companies $75 billion under new climate law
The law is intended to shift some of the costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to fossil fuel firms.
Peru declares environmental emergency after oil spill
State oil firm Petroperu spilled a crude oil shipment into surrounding waters of the Pacific Ocean last weekend.
Putin says there is no time to sign new Ukraine gas transit deal this year
The current five-year gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine expires in the end of the year.
