OSLO (Reuters) – Norway plans to trim lavish tax breaks for Tesla and other electric cars that have given it the world’s highest rate of battery-vehicle ownership, the right-wing government proposed on Thursday. The draft 2018 budget would mainly affect large cars weighing more than two tons, it said. Norwegian media dubbed the changes a […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government laid out plans on Thursday on how it will invest over 2.5 billion pounds ($3.31 billion) from 2015-2021 on science, research and innovation to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions to meet its legal targets for helping tackle climate change. The funding will cover programs in the energy, transport, agriculture and […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – Greenpeace activists broke through two security barriers and launched fireworks inside the grounds of a French nuclear plant on Thursday to highlight the vulnerability of the plants to attacks. The environmentalist group issued video footage showing several of its members inside the fence of EDF’s Cattenom nuclear plant in northeast France, and […]
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By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) – Paris authorities plan to banish all petrol- and diesel-fueled cars from the world’s most visited city by 2030, Paris City Hall said on Thursday. The move marks an acceleration in plans to wean the country off gas-guzzlers and switch to electric vehicles in a city often obliged to impose […]
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By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Netherlands claimed a seventh World Solar Challenge title on Thursday after its solar-powered car drove the length of Australia in a little over 37 hours. The challenge began on Oct. 8 with 42 cars powered only by the sun racing from Australia’s tropical north to its southern shores, […]
Read More BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Hebei province has ordered two big coal producers to shut a total of 59 mines during a key Communist Party gathering in Beijing later this month, state-run China Coal News reported on Thursday. Hebei surrounds Beijing, which is gearing up for the once-in-five-years 19th Party Congress that kicks off on Oct. […]
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GABORONE (Reuters) – Anthrax has been detected in dead hippos floating in the Okavango River, officials in Botswana said on Wednesday, after more than 100 of the animals were suspected to have been killed by the disease in neighbouring Namibia. Botswana’s Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism advised people not to touch the […]
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The top Chinese steelmaking city of Tangshan has ordered mills to cut output a month earlier than expected to meet tough 2017 air quality targets, according to a notice released by the municipal government and reviewed by Reuters. Steel enterprises in Tangshan, located in heavily polluted Hebei province, must cut sintering output […]
Read More WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. environmental regulator warned residents of Puerto Rico on Wednesday not to break into wells at industrial waste sites as parts of the island still struggle with drinking water shortages three weeks after Hurricane Maria hit. “There are reports of residents obtaining, or trying to obtain, drinking water from wells at […]
Read More By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated the chief executive of AccuWeather Inc to head the government’s meteorological agency that monitors the climate and issues daily weather forecasts. Trump nominated Barry Myers, CEO of privately owned weather forecasting company AccuWeather, to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, part […]
Read More By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dow AgroSciences will launch a genetically engineered soybean seed that has been barred by major importers under tight controls in the United States next year, the company said Wednesday, as it seeks to avoid roiling global trade while making sales to farmers. Archer Daniels Midland Co, one of the […]
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s top coal producing region, will aim to cut concentrations of hazardous airborne particles known as PM2.5 by 40 percent over the winter months, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The province will also aim to cut concentrations of sulphur dioxide – a key component of smog […]
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