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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.

Aeral view of Siderurgica Huachipato, in Talcahuano, Bio Bio region, taken on September 11, 2024. Huachipato, Chile's largest steelmaker, will shut down its furnace on September 16, 2024, the end of a 74-year-old company with strong social roots that succumbed to ‘unfair’ competition from Chinese steel. (AFP)
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Chile’s biggest steelworks sunk by cheap Chinese imports

Chile's Huachipato steel mill, an economic and cultural hub for Talcahuano, is closing after 74 years, driven out by cheaper Chinese imports, costing...

FILE PHOTO: A wind turbine is pictured in a field near Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium September 6, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
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EU approves 682 million euros for Belgian offshore wind energy

The EU approved a 682 million euro Belgian state aid scheme for a 700 MW North Sea wind farm, aiming to boost renewable...

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows domes of the Central Mosque with the backdrop of the Tien Shan Mountains in Almaty, Kazakhstan, April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev/File Photo
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Metals-rich Kazakhstan seeks niche in battery supply chain

The former Soviet republic, Kazakhstan, promotes itself as a dependable supplier of the majority of critical materials outlined by the EU.

The First Minister chaired a meeting of unions and the workforce (Michael Boyd/PA)
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Grangemouth owners urged to reconsider refinery closure

Petroineos announced it would shutter the refinery in the second quarter of next year as it looks to move to become an import...

Demonstrators outside the proposed site of the Whitehaven coal mine in Cumbria in 2021 (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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Coal mine plans should be ‘permanently shelved’ after court ruling: campaigners

Environmental groups have called for proposals for the UK’s first coal mine for 30 years to be “permanently shelved”.

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Former drilling foe Harris now says she supports it

Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden-Harris administration has overseen “the largest increase in domestic oil production.″

NGOs accuse richer nations of blocking attempts to reach a solution on climate finance (AFP)
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Climate finance talks make little progress before UN summit

International negotiations on money to help developing countries tackle climate change concluded without a breakthrough this week.

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The Hague will ban street ads for fossil fuels from January

The city council in the Netherlands' third-largest city voted on Thursday to approve the new rules for outdoor ads.

FILE PHOTO: An employee manoeuvres a titanium ingot for pressing at the VSMPO-Avisma factory in Verkhnyaya-Salda, some 1,800 km (1,100 miles) east of Moscow, November 7, 2013.  REUTERS/Svetlana Burmistrova/File Photo
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Kremlin says no measures yet after Putin’s exports proposal

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to restrict exports of Russian metals is an invitation for officials to think about it and...

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