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(Adds Kevin de Leon to EPA list) Dec 16 (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden is expected as soon as this week to name members of his core team to overhaul U.S. energy and environment policy to fight climate change, with a goal of bringing the economy to net-zero emissions by 2050. A key part of his campaign, his climate and environmental justice plan includes ramping up clean energy technology and usage, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, federal procurement of clean energy technology and re-engaging the United States in a global pact to fight warming. It also aims to tackle racial and eco...

12/22/2020 CHICAGO, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures climbed to new six-and-a-half-year highs on Tuesday, as traders weigh backed-up Argentine ports against new precipitation across South America, traders said. * The benchmark CBOT March soybean futures contract gained 2-1/2 cents to $12.50 per bushel, after peaking at $12.56-1/4 per bushel, the highest on a continuous basis for the most-active contract since June 27, 2014. * New life-of-contract highs were met in all contract months. * CBOT March soymeal ended $2.20 higher at $414.30 per short ton, while March soyoil...

Flight Attendants Say United Airlines Quarantine Protocols Are Unsafe United Airlines is telling some flight attendants whose colleagues test positive for COVID-19 to keep flying and monitor for symptoms, three employees told Reuters, raising concerns among staff about the policy. “Most of us feel that’s unsafe,” said one of the employees. Reuters also viewed around a dozen comments in a private online group for United flight attendants, which expressed unease and frustration about loose quarantine and contact tracing protocols by the airline. United’s major rival American Airlines, b...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. chicken company Perdue Farms is urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to coordinate states' policies over who will receive COVID-19 vaccines first, warning that a patchwork of plans threatens the vaccination campaign. The fourth-largest U.S. poultry producer, in a letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield, said many Perdue employees live in one state but work in another because its facilities are located near state borders. State policies that prioritize different groups for vaccination may do little to stop community spread of the...

12/10/2020 By Jarrett Renshaw and Christopher Walljasper PHILADELPHIA/CHICAGO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for U.S. agriculture secretary, according to two sources familiar with the decision, a choice expected to reassure commodity crop farmers but disappoint climate activists and small-farm advocates. Vilsack - who served as USDA secretary under President Barack Obama and as Iowa governor from 1999 to 2007 - is seen by establishment Democrats as a sound choice, largely because of his moderate politics and longstanding relatio...