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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.

FILE PHOTO: Workers of GE Vernova, in Nantes, France, October 17, 2024. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File photo
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GE Vernova cautious about wind sector as gas business soars

GE Vernova resumes wind turbine work but remains cautious, forecasting losses and shifting focus amid industry challenges.

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 view of the Amazon rainforest at Yasuni National Park, during a tour led by Indigenous Waorani people in the Pastaza province, in Ecuador, July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Karen Toro/File Photo
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Ecuador’s $1 billion bond buyback to fund Amazon conservation

Ecuador launches $1B bond buyback to fund Amazon conservation, leveraging new 2042 bond at 6.034% yield, IFR reports.

FILE PHOTO: A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018.  REUTERS/Heather Somerville/File photo
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GM to exit Cruise robotaxi business

Automaker General Motors said on Tuesday its majority-owned Cruise business will drop the development of robotaxis.

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.

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Parkland’s Burnaby Refinery becomes the first to successfully produce low carbon aviation fuel in Canada

VANCOUVER, BC – December 10, 2024 – Parkland announced it has successfully produced Canada’s first batch of low carbon aviation fuel at its...

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Darling Ingredients Inc. Announces Avfuel Corporation Takes First Delivery of Sustainable Aviation Fuel produced by Diamond Green Diesel

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR), the world's leading company turning food waste into sustainable products and producer of renewable energy,...

Villagers harvest ice from a local lake near the settlement of Oy, some 70 km south of Yakutsk, with the air temperature at about minus 41 degrees Celsius, on November 27, 2018 (AFP)
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Sink to source: Arctic is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs

The Arctic tundra, once a carbon sink, is now a net carbon source, driven by warming, permafrost thaw, and intensified wildfires.

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