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Thunberg and other activists from Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network appeared at a panel at the climate summit to raise awareness about…
European Union energy ministers clashed at an emergency meeting over how to cushion consumers and companies from soaring power and natural gas prices, with political and legal constraints leaving little room for immediate action.
One of the most dangerous greenhouse gases is leaking into the atmosphere relentlessly from the EU’s easternmost edge. Invisible plumes of methane escape from Romania’s oil fields, gas pipes, rusting storage containers and even a well next to a playground. The job of finding the leaking gas, with more than 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term, falls to James Turitto from the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. He has found more than 70 leaks using a special infrared camera capable of detecting the odorless gas. “It felt like every well in Romania is leaking,” s...
April 13, 2021 7:02 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee Republican lawmakers spent much of the last four years rebranding as a working-class party, following then-President Donald Trumpâs lead on things like immigration and tariffs and setting aside their push to cut spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But Trumpâs campaign pledge to âsaveâ safety-net programs has left conservatives with an identity crisis. With their party now in the minority, key GOP leaders want to bring back the push for entitlement changes that was a top priority under fo...
The benchmark stock gauge closed 0.1% higher after declining as much as 1.8% amid a rout in technology shares on concern the high-flying stocks had become overvalued. The Nasdaq 100 ended just slightly lower, mostly erasing a loss that reached 3.5% after Powell signaled the Federal Reserve was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the economy. Airlines, lodging companies and cyclical shares set to benefit from the end of pandemic lockdowns outperformed. So-called growth shares are having their worst month against value counterparts in more than two decades as vaccination campaigns ...