Israel’s attacks on Iran early Saturday destroyed air-defense systems set up to protect several critical oil and petrochemical refineries, as well as systems guarding a large gas field and a major port in southern Iran, according to three Iranian officials and three senior Israeli defense officials. The sites targeted by …
Read More »How Donald Trump Is Making Big Promises to Big Business
On a Friday in late September, Donald J. Trump took time off the campaign trail for a closed-door meeting at Mar-a-Lago with officials representing the vaping industry. The vaping emissaries talked about loosening regulations and told the former president he had “saved” the industry in the past. The group — …
Read More »The ‘Greenest Governor’ Fights to Save a Landmark Climate Law
Long before the League of Conservation Voters embraced him as the “greenest governor” in America, Jay Inslee of Washington had written a book about climate change that called for a clean-energy revolution that would be the equivalent of the Apollo space program in commitment and innovation. But Mr. Inslee’s visions …
Read More »The U.N.’s Verdict on Climate Progress Over the Past Year: There Was None
One year after world leaders made a landmark promise to move away from fossil fuels, countries have essentially made no progress in cutting emissions and tackling global warming, according to a United Nations report issued on Thursday. Global greenhouse gas emissions soared to a record 57 gigatons last year and …
Read More »Cuba Suffers Second Power Outage in 24 Hours, Realizing Years of Warnings
The experts had warned for years: Cuba’s power grid was on the verge of collapse, relying on plants nearly a half-century old and importing fuel that the strapped Communist government could barely afford. On Friday morning their dire predictions came true, as the entire island plunged into the most prolonged …
Read More »Electric Vehicles May Be Struggling. G.M.’s Leader Is Still a Believer.
Electric vehicles have had a hard year. Sales have been disappointing. Former President Donald J. Trump has regularly disparaged them. And even many environmentally conscious car buyers have been choosing hybrids instead. Yet the chief executive of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, says the company is still committed to doing …
Read More »Behind Nigeria’s Deadliest Road Incident in Years, a Quest for Cheap Fuel
The driver of a fuel tanker was transporting 45,000 liters of gasoline on an unlit road in northern Nigeria on Tuesday night when a van carrying tomatoes veered into his lane. The driver lost control of his vehicle as he tried to avoid the van. The tanker capsized. The driver, …
Read More »Global Electricity Demand Is Rising Faster Than Expected, I.E.A. Says
Demand for electricity around the world is rising faster than expected, making it harder for countries to slash their emissions and keep global warming in check, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday. Over the next decade, the world is poised to add the equivalent of Japan’s annual electricity demand …
Read More »Fuel Tanker Explosion Leaves at Least 150 Dead in Nigeria
More than 150 people were killed in northern Nigeria on Tuesday after an overturned fuel tanker exploded, according to a police spokesman, in one of the deadliest road disasters ever recorded in Africa’s most populous country. While the death toll was exceptionally high, the episode followed an all-too-common pattern on …
Read More »Russian Oil Flows Through Western ‘Price Cap’ as Shadow Fleet Grows
A plan hatched by wealthy Western nations to deprive Russia of oil revenue is largely faltering, a new report found, with the majority of the Kremlin’s seaborne oil exports evading restrictions that were supposed to limit the price of Russian crude. Almost two years since an oil “price cap” was …
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