While the Democrats and the Republicans slug it out on the merits and demerits of the project, time is running out since contracts for the project have already been signed. Delays will attract penalties which could make the project void ab initio. 14 lawmakers from the California GOP have sent a letter to the newly-installed Transportation Secretary,…
Despite the bragging rights, its 77.42 gigawatts of solar energy is just a drop of water in its bucket of energy requirements and represents just 1% of the country’s total energy demands. China has made giant strides in implementing clean energy and is slowly weaning off its economy from lustre of cheap coal power. According…
Selling off some of the nation’s prized assets to prop up France’s nuclear industry would be one of their first tasks in office for whoever succeeds Francois Hollande as France’s president. Two government officials with direct knowledge of the matter were quoted in the media saying that compared to the 7.5 billion euros it has…
Change has to come from the inside … A boycott movement which registered more than 200,000 account deletions from employees, convinced Travis Kalanick, Uber’s CEO, to end his tenure at U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic advisory council. However, SpaceX and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk has yet to be convinced as how why he should withdraw…
The industry for alternative energy sources is only set to grow. In a big step towards green energy, Ireland has decided to slice out coal and oil from its energy footprint. The country’s parliament has passed a bill that stops the country’s investment in fossil fuels. The move has yet to become law since it…
The Trump administration’s executive order that would have led to the removal from U.S. airports of refugees, visa holders and legal U.S. residents from seven mostly Muslim countries has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge from enforcing it. hours after the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued to halt President Donald Trump’s Jan.…
This is despite gag order. Scientists are planning to take their protest to the streets in March. Despite receiving a gag order, officials from the U.S Environmental Protection Agencies have disclosed to Reuters that their paymasters have instructed them to remove this page from its website. Meanwhile on the official White House website, a page devoted to…
The path of leaving the European Union just got a little bit more complicated for the U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Control of the European Parliament, which must approve any Brexit deal, was lost by the Socialist party, already struggling in France, Italy and the Netherlands. Creating the possibility of division that could encumber May’s…
Accusing the head of Samsung Group, the country’s biggest conglomerate, of paying multi-million dollar bribes to a friend of President Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s special prosecutors’ office said it will seek a warrant to arrest Jay Y. Lee . As investigators probed a corruption scandal that resulted in parliament impeaching Park last month, the Samsung Group chief was…
In a sign that Iran’s closest ally in the region is ready to improve its ties with the kingdom, Oman told Saudi Arabia it will join a Saudi-led military alliance, the kingdom’s official news agency reported. The Saudi Press Agency said that announcing the decision to join the Islamic Military Alliance Against Terrorism was Oman’s defense…
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