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The growing urgency to address climate change and concerns about the financial performance of Exxon Mobil aligned this week to help activist investors place two directors on the company’s board. But it is not clear if the activists can deliver on their dual goals — reducing the emissions that are warming the planet and lifting the profits and stock price of Exxon. The potential tensions between those objectives could doom the investor effort to transform the company and the oil industry. Get...

The tension between climate goals and lifting Exxon Mobil’s profits could make it difficult for activists to make progress.

Scientific American Used Car Exports Threaten Climate Goals The U.S. ships hundreds of thousands of its oldest and dirtiest cars overseas to poorer countries each year Print Cars are stuck in traffic on a motorway in the Kenyan capital Nairobi during a typical morning commute. Credit: Tony Karumba Advertisement Replacing gasoline cars with electric vehicles is a pillar of President Biden’s strategy for tackling climate change. But even if the administration sets a deadline to sunset sales of...

The U.S. sends about 1 million used cars to poorer countries every year. It's part of a global car trade that threatens to slow emissions reductions, experts say.

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This Just In: A presidential visit (sort of); the Duck & Bunny backstory Michael McDermott, The Providence Journal © Andrew Harnik, AP President Joe Biden is greeted by Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee, center, Maj. Gen. Christopher Callahan, The Adjutant General, Rhode Island, obscured, and Col. Adam Wiggins, 143rd Airlift Wing Commander, left, as he arrives at Quonset Point Air National Guard in North Kingstown, R.I., Wednesday, May 19, 2021, to travel to New London, Conn. to at...

tbabcock@timesrepublican.com T-R PHOTOS BY TREVOR BABCOCK — MARSHALLTOWN Company President and CEO Joe Carter speaks at the Thursday groundbreaking ceremony for the company’s 60,000 square foot addition of manufacturing space. Ground has broken on MARSHALLTOWN’s 60,000-square-foot addition of manufacturing space. The construction tools and equipment manufacturer celebrated the expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday. “The last 12 months have been interesting I’ll say,�...

Blockchains, Electric Vehicles Face Carbon Challenges The reality is that no matter how clean the energy, there’s going to be an environmental impact. And no matter how inclusive or egalitarian a currency is, there’s margin for error and exploitation. As modern society has advanced, we’ve become keenly aware of how our technological advancements affect the planet. Consuming tangible resources can be increasingly troublesome. Once cars began rolling off assembly lines, we saw the ...

InMaricopa Construction has begun at the new shooting site in Box Canyon. Maricopa resident and InMaricopa.com reader Dan Becker sent up a drone recently to photograph the site, where some earth-moving equipment could be seen at work. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is expected to complete its buildout of the 68-acre facility in August. Entrance will be off North Hidden Valley Road, about 10 miles west of Maricopa. The range is one of five being developed by the U.S. Bureau of La...

© iStockphoto The pandemic plunge in carbon emissions may be short-lived unless governments implement policies now that encourage actions such as increased public transportation, climate experts are warning. Emissions plunged 17 percent globally at the onset of the pandemic, in spring 2020, but a September report by the World Meteorological Organization found they were on the rise again. Global carbon dioxide emissions fell just 6.4 percent last year. “The biggest contributor to the dro...