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WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) – The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with agreement to end plastic pollution but a split on whether goals …
Countries split on plastics treaty focus as U.N. talks close Read More
Kaduna, a state in northwestern Nigeria, has selected China’s Ming Xin Mineral Separation Nig Ltd. (MXMS) to build the country’s first lithium-processing plant, with a plan to manufacture batteries for …
China beats Tesla to Nigeria’s lithium riches Read More
Dozens of contractors were detained over the weekend in Turkey, as anger grows over the consequences of the devastating earthquakes and the government vows to take action against construction negligence …
Turkey cracks down on contractors of quake-struck buildings Read More
Last February, ExxonMobil announced it would further expand its only active carbon capture and storage (CCS) operation in the United States, located at a gas processing facility in LaBarge, Wyoming. Shute Creek is the …
Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture Read More
Chinese factory laborers call jobs like Hunter’s “working the screws.” Until recently, the 34-year-old worked on the iPhone 14 Pro assembly line at a Foxconn factory in the central Chinese …
‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city Read More
German chancellor Olaf Scholz flew to Latin America this week looking for one thing: lithium. Meeting with the leaders of Argentina, Chile, and Brazil — home to the so-called lithium triangle — …
The world needs lithium more than ever, and Latin America knows it Read More
Shell’s board of directors are being personally sued over their alleged failure to properly manage risks associated with the climate crisis. The lawsuit says the British oil giant’s 11 directors …
Shell’s board of directors sued over ‘flawed’ climate strategy in first-of-its-kind lawsuit Read More
The Commission’s ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’, unveiled on Wednesday (1 February), promises simplified EU regulation for clean technologies, but critics say it lacks clarity and opens the door to unrestricted …
EU’s green industrial plan vague on clean tech, finance, critics say Read More
In mid-January, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused the country’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, of facilitating genocide against the Indigenous Yanomami people, who live deep in the Amazon rainforest along the border …
How gold mining in Brazil is connected to hundreds of deaths Read More
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator will consider whether companies selling food, drink and toiletries are wrongly labelling products as “sustainable” or “better for the environment” in its …
Greenwashing on food, drink, toiletry labels to be scrutinised in UK Read More