Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Covid totals continue to fall, both in the US and worldwide. New US cases during the week ending May 22nd were down 22.0% from those testing positive during the week ending May 15th, and down 64.2% from our mid-April surge high; this week s new cases were also the lowest for a 7 day period since that ending June 19th of last year. US deaths attributed to Covid this week were down 7.1% from the prior week, and less than a sixth of the death rate during the peak weeks of January. US Covid deaths were also the lowest since t
By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Originally published at DeSmog Blog
ExxonMobil is the world’s single largest producer of single-use plastics, according to a new report published today by the Australia-based Minderoo Foundation, one of Asia’s biggest philanthropies.
The Dow Chemical Company ranks second, the report finds, with the Chinese state-owned company Sinopec coming in third. Indorama Ventures a Thai company that entered the plastics market in 1995 and Saudi Aramco, owned by the Saudi Arabian government, round out the top five.
Absa mum on future of CEO Daniel Mminele after fallout with board By Hilary Joffe, Makhudu Sefara and Semeyi Zake - 19 April 2021 Absa CEO Daniel Mminele could be out by Wednesday. File photo. Image: SIMPHIWE NKWALI/SUNDAY TIMES
Banking group Absa seems set to lose its highly regarded CEO Daniel Mminele just 15 months into his tenure, with speculation in the market that chair Wendy Lucas Bull and the board are unhappy with changes he wants to make at the bank and could look to part ways with him as early as Wednesday.
It’s understood this follows heated talks last week which failed to yield agreement and were alluded to in a report in Business Report on Friday.
Mminele, who took over as CEO in January 2020 after 20 years at the Reserve Bank, became the first black person to lead Absa. When he took office, he was tasked by the board with reviewing the strategy Absa had put in place in 2018 after its divorce from UK-based Barclays, and Lucas-Bull had told staff he had an “open mandate”.
On Tuesday afternoon, in the group’s statement after the Sens announcement, Lucas-Bull said: “The board was very excited about Daniel’s appointment and the positive role he was going to play at Absa. It is a matter of considerable regret that we reached this position.