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By David Shepardson (Reuters) – California regulators on Friday approved new rules requiring all medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold in the state in 2036 be zero-emission, a day after the California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted reduced emission regulations for locomotives. “With these actions requiring all new heavy-duty truck sales to be zero emission and…
By Nichola Groom and Katharine Jackson (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal President Joe Biden’s suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations, a move aimed at supporting a domestic supply chain but that solar project builders say would stall clean energy development. The resolution passed in…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Some Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) engineers recommended grounding the Boeing 737 MAX in March 2019 after a second fatal crash and before the agency took action, a report released Friday said. The Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General said in a report that its review of emails and interviews of…
By Liz Hampton (Reuters) – Louisiana’s application to obtain enforcement authority over carbon capture wells has gone to the Federal Register for public comment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday, a key step in receiving “so-called” primacy and speeding up the permitting process. The EPA currently manages permitting for most Class VI wells…
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva legally recognized six Indigenous territories on Friday, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil’s original people had too much land. The recognition is crucial to protect Indigenous lands from increasing encroachment by farming and…
By Steve Gorman, Joey Roulette and David Shepardson (Reuters) – While the spectacle of SpaceX’s new Starship rocket blowing up over the Gulf of Mexico riveted the public’s attention, it was the explosive nature of the launch at ground level that was drawing heightened scrutiny from the government this week. The shattering force of last…
(Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal President Joe Biden’s suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations with manufacturing facilities owned by China. The resolution passed in a 221-202 vote. It will now be sent to the Democratic-controlled Senate for consideration. The White House has…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp affiliate Daihatsu rigged part of the door in side-collision safety tests carried out for some 88,000 small cars, most of which were sold under the Toyota brand, the companies said on Friday. They said the door trim on the affected vehicles had been modified with a “notch” to minimise…
By Simon Jessop and Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – Standard Chartered Plc said on Friday it has changed its target for curbing carbon emissions associated with its loans to oil and gas companies, ditching a methodology that critics say allows climate-damaging emissions to rise. The Asia, Africa and Middle East-focused bank had previously set a…
(Reuters) -Three U.S. Army pilots were killed and one was injured in Alaska on Thursday when two Apache helicopters returning from a training mission collided in flight, the 11th Airborne Division of the Army said. Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene and a third died on the way to hospital, the army unit…
