President Trump signed four executive actions on Tuesday aimed at reversing policies that transitioned the country away from coal production and aimed at boosting America’s “beautiful clean coal industry,” as the White House put it. The actions are meant to help the U.S. achieve affordable and reliable energy by “slashing unnecessary regulations,” Mr. Trump said….
President Trump plans to sign an executive order Tuesday aimed at expanding the mining and use of coal in the United States, in an effort to revive the struggling industry. The order will direct federal agencies to remove barriers to coal leasing and mining, loosen environmental reviews of coal projects and explore whether coal-fired electricity…
US stocks soared Tuesday after the biggest three-day rout in five years, fueled by the most oversold conditions since the depths of the pandemic and optimism the Trump administration will water down its harsh tariff regime. The S&P 500 Index jumped 3.34% as of 9:31 a.m. in New York, heading for its best day since…
Open this photo in gallery: Employees work on a production line of caps that will be exported to the United States at a factory in Suqian, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on April 7.STR/Getty Images Countries around the world scrambled to contain the fallout of U.S. tariffs on Monday as Donald Trump threatened higher levies…
Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump walks though the Hall of Nations during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where he also lead a board meeting on March 17, in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Dimitry Anastakis is the Wilson-Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the…
The human costs of Russia’s war in Ukraine are enormous, measured in mass graves, nightly missile attacks, traumatized children and hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead or wounded. But Ukraine’s environment is also being devastated. The war may end, but damage from artillery shells, mines, drones and missiles will endure for decades, experts say, degrading…
Spend any time on a farm and you soon appreciate the grit required to land that sirloin on your plate. From fencing and drenching to battling storms, environmental regulations, labour shortages and high interest rates — farming is heavy weather. For the red meat sector, the headwinds are getting stronger. There are four storms. AdvertisementAdvertise…
The City of Fort Worth, Texas, is ending its contract with Synagro, the Goldman Sachs-backed provider of fertilizer made from sewage sludge, over concerns that “forever chemicals” in the fertilizer are contaminating local farmland and groundwater. Fort Worth this month also sued several manufacturers of the chemicals, also called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS,…
Open this photo in gallery: Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during an international business meeting at The Great Hall Of The People, in Beijing, on March 28.Pool/Getty Images China’s President Xi Jinping urged a gathering of multinational CEOs on Friday to protect global industry and supply chains, as Beijing seeks to assuage foreign firms’ concerns…
Last year, the Biden administration required coal- and oil-burning power plants to greatly reduce emissions of toxic chemicals including mercury, which can harm babies’ brains and cause heart disease in adults. Now, the Trump administration is offering companies an extraordinary out: Send an email, and they might be given permission by President Trump to bypass…