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Britain to fine water companies releasing sewage into rivers
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Environment Agency and water regulator Ofwat said it had launched a major investigation into sewage treatment after water companies admitted that they could be releasing u...
Nov 18, 2021
During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, skepticism
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting under way. D...
Nov 18, 2021
Macy’s eases worries over holiday season with forecast raise
(Reuters) - Macy's Inc raised its full-year sales and profit outlook on Thursday, easing fears that the department store chain would struggle with product shortages during the crucial holiday season. ...
Nov 18, 2021
Drug, feed ingredient shortages hit U.S. livestock producers
By P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michigan dairy farmer Doug Chapin has been unable to buy bottles of veterinary penicillin for his cows for more than a month. In Minnesota, pig...
Nov 18, 2021
U.S. govt to buy 10 million courses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill for $5.29 billion
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc said on Thursday the U.S. government had signed a $5.29 billion deal for 10 million courses of its COVID-19 oral antiviral drug for delivery by 2022. If authorized, Pfizer said i...
Nov 18, 2021
German court says VW should have made public its plans for emissions-cheating
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court said that a decision by Volkswagen and Porsche SE in 2008 to install defeat devices in vehicles for the U.S. market was insider information that should have been made...
Nov 18, 2021
Winter weather, west U.S. port labour talks are wild cards in shipping- Hapag Lloyd
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The shipping industry may face unexpected risks from labour negotiations in western U.S. ports and winter weather in the northern hemisphere over the next few months, the head of...
Nov 18, 2021
Factbox: Hydrogen’s many colours
(Reuters) - Industries including energy, steel and chemicals are looking to develop large-scale hydrogen applications to help reduce carbon emissions and avert global warming. Although hydrogen is the...
Nov 18, 2021
Europe’s gas firms prime pipelines for hydrogen highway
By Vera Eckert, Stephen Jewkes and Isla Binnie (Reuters) - As world leaders hammered out a deal last week to slow climate change, gas engineer Michele Ricciardi was digging into a practical problem: H...
Nov 18, 2021
China’s Alibaba warns of slowest revenue growth since debut
(Reuters) -China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd forecast annual revenue to grow at its slowest pace since its 2014 debut and its second-quarter results missed expectations amid slowing consumption in the...
Nov 18, 2021
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