By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Climate activists on Wednesday targeted two of the globe’s biggest banks – Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan – for their fossil fuel investment policies with separate protests in Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt. Greenpeace activists scaled Deutsche Bank’s headquarters shortly after dawn and strung up a large yellow banner to protest…
By David Lawder KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga told Reuters that he will “push” the lender’s balance sheet hard to help fight climate change and other crises, but this may only yield tens of billions of dollars in additional annual lending, not the hundreds of billions hoped for by some. Banga…
By Ahmed Kingimi MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The death toll from an overloaded boat that capsized in a remote part of Nigeria’s north central region has risen to more than 100, police and officials said on Wednesday, in one of the worst such disasters in recent years. The wooden boat was ferrying people to Kwara…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives returned to the job of legislating on Tuesday, after a week-long standoff between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a small group of hardline Republican conservatives ended in a temporary truce. The Republican-controlled chamber first voted 219-210 on a gun rights bill favored by McCarthy’s hardline critics,…
By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to release a final rule on biofuel blending volume mandates for the years 2023-2025 by June 21, after seeking a one-week extension on a deadline for the rule, according to a court document on Tuesday. The EPA was set…
By Holger Hansen and Riham Alkousaa BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling coalition on Tuesday agreed changes to a bill on phasing out oil and gas heating systems after weeks of wrangling that raised doubts whether coalition could survive until the end of its term. The coalition is led by the Social Democrats (SPD), supported by…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday pledged federal support for rebuilding a major U.S. highway after a portion collapsed in Philadelphia over the weekend, snarling traffic and upending commutes. Buttigieg toured the scene and met with Pennsylvania officials. He said the federal government plans to provide emergency funding to…
By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to California next week to raise campaign cash from tech and climate donors as he races to raise over a billion dollars for his re-election fight, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Biden, who is almost certain…
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – The first trial in several U.S. climate change cases brought by youths kicked off on Monday in Montana, where sixteen young people are seeking to hold the state accountable for fossil fuel-friendly policies they claim exacerbate global warming and threaten their futures. Roger Sullivan, an attorney for the young plaintiffs,…
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Thousands of Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad to escape fighting in their country could be cut off from humanitarian and medical aid during the approaching rainy season, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday. More than 100,000 people have fled across the border to Chad since conflict broke out…
