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States sue US to block rule that oil firms guarantee payment to dismantle old wells

The Biden administration has proposed a rule that would require the offshore oil and gas industry to help cover the cost of dismantling...

Tesla electric vehicle chargers are seen during a sunset at a petrol station in Xinzo de Limia, Spain June 10, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
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Tesla sues ex-supplier Matthews over EV battery trade secrets

Matthews began supplying Tesla with manufacturing machinery in 2019.

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk attends the first plenary session on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Britain on November 1, 2023. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Tesla plans to leverage Elon Musk’s big pay win in Delaware court battle

Tesla will use Thursday's strong support for Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package to try to win over a Delaware judge that invalidated...

FILE PHOTO: A Tesla logo is seen at a groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in Shanghai, China January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Canadian national pleads guilty to stealing Tesla trade secrets

A Canadian resident of China pleaded guilty in New York federal court on Thursday to stealing Tesla electric-vehicle battery manufacturing trade secrets and...

FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed natural gas pipeline is placed in front of displayed ExxonMobil logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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Largest US oil trade group to sue to block Biden’s EV push

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued new tailpipe emission rules in March that will force the nation's automakers to produce and sell more...

A red light on Bay Street in Canada's financial district is shown in Toronto on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. The CEOs of Canada's five biggest banks are set to testify before a parliamentary committee later today about the impacts of the financial sector on climate and the environment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Bank CEOs to testify at parliamentary committee on climate impacts of finance

The chief executives of Royal Bank of Canada, TD Bank Group, BMO Financial Group, Scotiabank and CIBC are all scheduled to appear by...

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo/
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Musk convincing Tesla investors to back his pay. Now he must persuade a judge

Musk on Wednesday evening said that shareholders were voting in favor of both the pay package and a board-sponsored move of Tesla's legal...

FILE PHOTO: Siofra O'Leary, ECHR Court President, speaks during the verdict on three climate cases, where applicants have argued that government inaction on climate change violates human rights, case Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Other States, case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, and case Careme v France, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, April 9, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
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Why does Switzerland’s rebuff of European climate ruling matter?

Switzerland's lower house parliament has voted to reject a landmark court ruling ordering the country to do more to combat global warming

FILE PHOTO: Supporters and members of the association Senior Women for Climate Protection hold banners as they arrive for the ruling in the climate case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, April 9, 2024. The slogan reads "Climate justice". REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
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Swiss parliament considers snubbing European court climate ruling

The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted on Wednesday to reject a ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming

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Woodland Cree, Obsidian energy resolve northern Alberta standoff

CALGARY — An energy company says a First Nations blockade and standoff that kept it from using an oil lease road has been...

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