Saturday, 1 March 2025

Focus on Emissions

FILE - A Model X sports-utility vehicle sits outside a Tesla store in Littleton, Colo., June 18, 2023. An air quality board has ordered electric car manufacturer Tesla to stop illegally polluting the air in the San Francisco Bay Area. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Tesla ordered to stop releasing toxic emissions from San Francisco Bay Area plant

Tesla's EV manufacturing facility in the Bay Area has racked up over 100 violations for allegedly releasing emissions into the atmosphere over the...

Legal & General Investment Management is one of the world’s largest asset managers (John Stillwell/PA)
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Major investor to divest from Glencore and TK Maxx owner over climate concerns

Glencore does not “meet our red line” of asking mining companies to share whether they plan to increase thermal coal capacity, says LGIM.

FILE - A view of the antennas of the Vatican Radio, which beams the Pope's words around the world, is seen in Santa Maria di Galeria, on the outskirts of Rome, on April 11, 2001. Pope Francis decreed Wednesday that an area of northern Rome, long the source of controversy because of electromagnetic waves emitted by Vatican Radio towers there, will now house solar panels to fuel Vatican City. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia, File)
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A Vatican Radio territory in north Rome once blamed for electro-smog will become a solar farm

In a decree, Pope Francis said the solar energy generated would be sufficient to fuel the Vatican City State itself.

Shell Canada Products says it's going ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project in Alberta.A Shell logo is displayed at a gas station in London, on March 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Frank Augste
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Shell going ahead with Canadian carbon capture and storage project

Shell Canada Products says it's going ahead with its Polaris carbon capture project designed to capture 650,000 tonnes of CO2 annually

UPS along with its rivals FedEx and Amazon are responsible for more than a quarter of emissions from the air freight sector, according to environmental group Stand Earth (AFP)
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Environmental group Stand Earth denounces rising air freight pollution

Environmental pressure group Stand Earrth is denouncing rising emissions in the air freight industry, which has been boosted by supply chain difficulties

The logo of British multinational oil and gas company Shell is displayed during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 12, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
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Shell to build carbon capture and storage projects in Canada

Shell's Canadian unit said on Wednesday it would build carbon capture and storage projects in Canada, in a bid to reduce emissions

FILE PHOTO: A sign adorns the building where mining company Rio Tinto has their office in Perth, Western Australia, November 19, 2015.   REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
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Top four iron ore miners’ carbon emissions reduction promises

Factobx: The carbon emissions reduction targets and goals set out by the world's biggest four iron ore miners

FILE PHOTO: A small toy figure and mineral imitation are seen in front of the BHP logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
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Miner BHP’s carbon emissions to rise slightly this year

BHP Group's operational carbon emissions are set for a "small increase" this financial year, an executive revealed on Wednesday

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2023.REUTERS/Johanna Geron/File Photo
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EU backs 650-billion-euro plan to help cities reach net zero by 2030

After 377 cities applied to join the programme, 100 from the bloc and 12 from associated countries were chosen and are developing a...

The Haisla First Nation's Kitimaat Village is seen in an aerial view along the Douglas Channel near Kitimat, B.C., on January 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada’s Pembina, Haisla First Nation give green light to proposed US$4B LNG project

The project will involve the construction of a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility near Kitimat, B.C.

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