By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The bipartisan U.S. debt deal’s provisions to speed up energy infrastructure permitting will make it easier to build fossil fuel and clean energy projects but failed to tackle the mammoth issue of building transmission and pipelines needed to get their production to consumers. The Biden administration…
LONDON (Reuters) – More than 1,600 companies identified by non-profit platform CDP as having the biggest impact on the environment are not disclosing environmental data, it said as it launched its latest campaign to get firms to provide the information. CDP, which has standardised data to allow investors and others to compare corporate performance in…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who backed Donald Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign but has since become a vocal critic, will launch his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on June 6, a person familiar with the matter said. Here are key facts about Christie’s life and career:…
(Reuters) -U.S. health and advocacy groups have declared June 2 as National Gun Violence Awareness Day. People are asked to wear orange – traditionally a color worn by hunters – to remember shooting victims. The annual event began in 2015 on what would have been the 18th birthday of Hadiya Pendleton, shot dead in Chicago…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Elon Musk is scheduled to travel to Tesla’s Shanghai factory on Wednesday night to meet with staff there, two sources familiar with the matter said. The Tesla CEO’s private jet landed in the financial hub earlier in the day after flying from Beijing, according to flight tracking provider Variflight. Tesla did not…
May 31 (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Department report of job openings and labor turnover, seasonally adjusted. Rates (percent) Apr 2023 Mar 2023 Apr 2022 Job openings (1) 6.1 5.9 (r) 7.2 Hires (2) 3.9 3.9 (r) 4.3 Separations (3) 3.7 3.9 (r) 4.1 Quits (4) 2.4 2.5 3.0 Layoffs and discharges 1.0 1.2 0.9 Levels…
(Corrects to describe bill as bipartisan, not Republican) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will have the votes needed to pass a bipartisan debt ceiling bill later on Wednesday, Representative Tom Emmer, the No. 3 House Republican, said. “We’re going to have the votes tonight. This will pass,” Emmer told CNN in an…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The bipartisan debt ceiling bill will become law, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday, hours ahead of a much-anticipated vote in the chamber on the measure, which if passed would then go to the Senate for a vote. “It’s going to become law,” McCarthy told reporters. (Reporting by…
By Ju-min Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -Air raid sirens and a mobile phone alert calling for evacuations rattled residents of South Korea’s capital, Seoul, early on Wednesday after North Korea tried to launch what it said was a satellite. Nuclear-armed North Korea’s sixth satellite launch ended in failure, with the booster and payload…
By Ira Dugal MUMBAI (Reuters) -On a hot summer afternoon, 23-year old Nizamudin Abdul Rahim Khan is playing cricket on a muddy, unpaved road in the Rafiq Nagar slum in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. Here, there is scant evidence of India’s fast-growing economy. Bordering what was once Asia largest garbage dumping ground, Rafiq Nagar and…
