By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will review Texas’ oversight of wells used for injecting oil drilling wastewater and carbon dioxide into the ground after “substantial concerns” from environmental groups…
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Attempts dating back well over a decade to introduce specific financial mechanisms for ticket resales are yet to result in legal controls to protect fans. So it’s notable that the cultural plan in Labour’s manifesto…
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Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next decade or so. The growing swarm is already causing problems for astronomers, but recent research…
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By Joe Cash and Maria Martinez BEIJING (Reuters) -Beijing warned on Friday that escalating frictions with the European Union over electric vehicle imports could trigger a trade war, as Germany’s economy minister arrived in the…
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My generation of baby boomers in the UK generally grew up with reasonable expectations of buying a home in our mid-20s with a 25-year mortgage, happily being able to afford a family, and maybe retiring…
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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has become “the world’s first central bank” to carry out a monetary policy operation using distributed ledger technology, it announced today (June 20). Token-based SNB bills worth Sfr64 million ($72…
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Hawaii on Thursday agreed to take action to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045 to settle a lawsuit by 13 young people alleging the U.S. state was violating their rights under…
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How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a new paper published in Archives of Oral Biology, we…
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The Scottish National Party manifesto includes a promise that their MPs will call for a statutory social tariff for energy (and other utilities). This focus on social tariffs in public debate is welcome, but it…
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By Deep Kaushik Vakil and Robert Harvey LONDON (Reuters) -Oil futures hit a seven-week high on Thursday as fresh data on a cooling U.S. jobs market added to hopes that the Federal Reserve could still…
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