Friday, 31 January 2025

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FILE PHOTO: Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Carbon ManagementEmissionsEnvironmentNewsRegulations

ADM violates US water laws, permit after leak at carbon capture project

EPA finds ADM violated safe drinking water rules with a carbon leak at its Illinois CCS site, raising safety concerns.

FILE PHOTO: Steam comes out of the chimneys of Ilva steel plant in Taranto, Italy, November 9, 2019. Picture taken November 9, 2019. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo
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Italy court orders retrial in pollution case linked to ex-Ilva steelworks

The ex-Ilva site has been embroiled in legal proceedings over allegations that its emissions have caused a surge in cancer cases in Taranto.

FILE PHOTO: A student carries mangrove saplings to be planted at Mangrove Park Lampulo, marking World Environment Day in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, June 5, 2024. REUTERS/ Riska Munawarah/File Photo
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Indonesia’s Prabowo plans $65bn green fund from selling carbon credits

A new regulator for carbon emission rules will be established to oversee efforts to reach Indonesia's emissions targets.

Activists outside the Royal Courts of Justice for the hearing in July (Jonathan Salariya/Friends of the Earth/PA)
ClimateCoalCourtsEmissionsEnvironmentFuelMiningNewsPolitics

Planning permission for UK’s first coal mine in 30 years quashed by High Court

Mr Justice Holgate said in a ruling on Friday that giving the go-ahead for the coal mine at Whitehaven in Cumbria was “legally...

Setting a roadmap for her second term, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen pledged to 'stay the course' on the bloc's environmental goals (AFP)
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Climate ambitions face headwinds as EU changes guard

What does the future hold for EU climate policies? Next week’s unveiling of the new European Commission will be watched closely for clues...

FILE PHOTO: A Resolution Copper facility in Superior, Arizona, U.S., March 30, 2021. Picture taken March 30, 2021.  REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara/File Photo
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Analysis: Arizona’s battle over crucial copper mine poised to sway US election

Native opposition to Arizona’s Resolution Copper mine may sway the 2024 election, balancing energy needs and sacred land rights.

A landslide triggered by climate change ’caused Earth to vibrate for nine days’, researchers say (Soren Rysgaard/Danish Army)
ClimateEmissionsEnvironmentNewsResiliency

Greenland landslide triggered by climate change ’caused Earth to vibrate for nine days’

A landslide in Greenland that was triggered by climate change created a mega-tsunami that caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days.

Chris Stark has said the UK will not be carpeted in wind farm and pylons (Gareth Fuller/PA)
ElectricityEnvironmentInfrastructureNewsPoliticsSolarTransmissionWind

Energy tsar: We will not carpet UK with windfarms and pylons for clean power

Head of UK's green power plans downplays fears of pylon construction while ruling out laying underground cables as part of the grid.

Darren Porter, a local fisherman and marine conservationist, walks around one of four shipping containers chained to the ocean floor at low tide in the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Walton, N.S. on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. The massive refuse was left behind in the Minas Basin when Occurrent Power, formerly BigMoon Power, filed for bankruptcy after failing to harness the powerful tides of the Bay of Fundy to generate electricity. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Tidal power junk: N.S. village wants moorings moved from fishing area

In the Bay of Fundy, tidal power debris left behind by bankrupt Occurrent Power leaves locals fearing for fishers.

A general view of solar panels under construction over the sea in Binzhou, in eastern China's Shandong province (AFP)
Critical MineralsEnvironmentMiningNewsPoliticsRegulationsResiliency

UN experts call for global system to trace critical minerals

UN experts call for a global system to trace critical minerals, ensuring fairness, human rights, and environmental care.

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