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In Michigan and Wisconsin, cities are finding rooftops alone may not achieve solar energy goals 

Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, and Madison adopt utility-scale solar, blending partnerships and rooftop projects for clean energy.

Vestas manufactures wind turbine blades (Andrew Matthews/PA)
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Vestas cuts hundreds of jobs on UK’s Isle of Wight

Vestas is switching from making offshore blades to smaller, onshore blades, which will only sustain 300 jobs at the site, it said.

FILE PHOTO: Nippon Steel logo is displayed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 1, 2024.  REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo/File Photo/File Photo
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Explainer: What next for Nippon Steel and US Steel’s $15 billion mega-merger?

U.S. Steel's $15B Japanese takeover hangs in the balance as Biden weighs national security risks amid political pushback.

The deal worth $14.9 billion including debts is being reviewed in Washington (AFP)
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Nippon Steel slams ‘inappropriate’ politics in US deal

Nippon Steel issued the statement in response to a news report suggesting that President Biden might block its acquisition of US Steel.

Indonesia has pledged to phase out coal power in 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century (AFP)
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Indonesia’s new coal phase-out goal sets ‘daunting task’

Meeting Indonesia's pledge to phase out coal power is a daunting task that will require immediate and ambitious action, experts warn.

FILE PHOTO: A United Steelworkers sign is seen outside the Great Lakes Works United States Steel plant in River Rouge, Michigan U.S., September 16, 2024.  REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
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Biden plans to block Nippon Steel purchase of US Steel, Bloomberg News reports

President Biden plans to block Nippon Steel's $15B U.S. Steel takeover on national security grounds, Bloomberg reports.

ents from a tailings pond is pictured going down the Hazeltine Creek into Quesnel Lake near the town of Likely, B.C. on August, 5, 2014. Charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than 10 years after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million cubic metres of waste water into B.C. Interior waterways. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.

Imperial Metals faces 15 federal Fisheries Act charges over Mount Polley mine disaster, a decade after the dam collapse.

The logo of Equinor is set up at the entrance of a building at Western Europe's largest liquefied natural gas plant Hammerfest LNG in Hammerfest, Norway, March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/ File Photo
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Equinor, BP, TotalEnergies seal investment into Britain’s carbon capture projects

The three companies are joint partners in the project which will permanently store up to an initial 4 million tonnes of CO2 per...

The Supreme Court is pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 21, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo
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US Supreme Court examines Utah railway in environmental review fight

The project involves an 88-mile railway in northeastern Utah for transporting waxy crude oil.

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