Larry Fink said last month he would thrust climate change concerns to the center of BlackRock’s investment strategy. That didn’t stop activists from storming its Paris office on Monday.
Protesters barricaded the premises, sprayed red paint on the floo…
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A proposal by South Africa’s biggest labor-union federation to rescue debt-stricken Eskom Holdings with government workers’ pensions would amount to little more than a shifting of contingent liabilities, according to BNP Paribas South Africa. The Congr…
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Record-high renewables growth is transforming Australia’s electricity landscape, pushing out coal plants and lowering prices and emissions.
Solar and wind output during the fourth quarter within the five jurisdictions that make up the National Electri…
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Even before publicly vowing to unwind its investments in coal, BlackRock began cutting its stake in the biggest US miner.
The world’s largest asset manager had about 4.87-million shares of Peabody Energy as of December 31, a 5% stake, according to a r…
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The Trump administration is seeking alternative uses for coal as it acknowledges its use in generating electricity is declining.
The Energy Department is exploring if critical minerals or rare earth elements — used in such technology as battery stora…
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The US is deploying drones and other technology as it scours for potential rare-earths reserves at home and abroad to wean the nation off its dependence on Chinese imports.
“We’ve been almost 100% dependent on foreign sources of rare earth elements fo…
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BHP Group, the world’s top miner, is in talks with Chinese customers to delay shipments of copper concentrates as the nation extended plant shutdowns to combat the spread of the coronavirus, according to people familiar with the matter.
Suppliers are…
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Gold climbed for a fourth straight day as investors weighed the unfolding coronavirus crisis, including a blunt warning from the head of the World Health Organization about the potential for more cases beyond China.
Prices rose as the global death tol…
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Copper mines in Zambia, Africa’s second-biggest producer of the metal, will have continuous electricity even if a supply deal lapses next month with no agreement to replace it, Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa said. Most producers, including the local un…
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Australia has confirmed it’s preparing a former resources industry workers’ camp in the Outback to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan.
Australia will use “a mining camp facility in the Northern Territory near Darwin and we are working…
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