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FILE PHOTO: The logo of a Tesla electric vehicle is placed on a car outside a dealership in Drogenbos, Belgium November 25, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
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Tesla, opponents of Musk’s pay clash over resolving compensation lawsuit

Tesla and opponents of Elon Musk's compensation clashed on Friday over ways to resolve the legal quagmire that has engulfed the CEO's $56...

FILE - Hawaii Gov. Josh Green speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Hawaii's governor and lawyers for youth plaintiffs on Thursday, June 20, 2024, announced they settled a lawsuit alleging Hawaii violated the state constitution by operating a transportation system that harmed the climate and infringed upon the children's right to a clean and healthy environment..(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
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Hawaii settles climate change lawsuit filed by youth plaintiffs

HONOLULU (AP) — Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change. Now...

Environmental campaigner Sarah Finch, center, celebrates outside the Supreme Court in London, Thursday June 20, 2024 after justices ruled that emissions generated from burning fuel should be considered when granting planning permission for oil sites. The 3-2 ruling Thursday in London was a victory for fossil fuel opponents. (Callum Parke/PA via AP)
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Fossil fuel opponents score victory in a UK Supreme Court ruling on case near a London airport

Fossil fuel opponents won a major victory Thursday as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the greenhouse...

A person uses a megaphone as climate activists await a ruling on whether planning permission granted for oil wells in southern England was lawful, outside the Supreme Court in London, Britain, June 20, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs
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Environmental activists win landmark ruling over UK oil well plan

UK court has ruled that planners must look at the impact of emissions before granting approval for oil wells, making it easier to...

FILE PHOTO: Xcel Energy's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, the site of a leak in November which was not made public for four months, as well as a newly reported recurring leak, is seen in Monticello, Minnesota, U.S. March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Adam Bettcher/File Photo
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U.S. Senate passes bill to support advanced nuclear energy deployment

(This June 18 story has been corrected to rectify the type of nuclear fuel to ‘high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU),’ from ‘highly enriched uranium,’...

This historical photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Indians fishing for salmon at Celilo Falls, Oregon, on September 1941. The U.S. government on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes, issuing a report that details how the unprecedented structures devastated salmon runs, inundated villages and burial grounds, and continue to severely curtail the tribes' ability to exercise their treaty fishing rights. (Russell Lee/Library of Congress via AP)
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US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region’s Indigenous tribes

The U.S. government acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of hydropower dams on the Columbia and Snake...

FILE PHOTO: The Tesla factory is seen in Fremont, California, U.S. June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam//File Photo
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Tesla must face owners’ lawsuit claiming it monopolizes vehicle repairs and parts

A U.S. judge said Tesla vehicle owners can pursue a proposed class action accusing billionaire Elon Musk's electric car company of monopolizing markets...

FILE - Nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace, Mich., as Enbridge Inc. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's lawsuit seeking to shut down part of a petroleum pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac belongs in state court, a federal appellate panel ruled Monday. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP, File)
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US federal appellate panel sends Michigan Line 5 pipeline challenge to state court

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's lawsuit seeking to shut down part of a petroleum pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac belongs...

FILE PHOTO: Trafigura logo is seen in this illustration taken, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Trafigura agrees to pay $55 million to settle U.S. CFTC charges

A unit of global commodities trader Trafigura has agreed to pay a $55-million civil fine to settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges...

General view of Citgo Petroleum headquarters in Houston, Texas, U.S., January 11, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
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Financial alliances build as Citgo share auction enters last mile

In the last mile of an unprecedented auction to pay up to $21.3 billion from past expropriations and debt defaults in Venezuela, a...

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