Category: Energy News Beat

Pentagon Is Starting To Restrict Flow Of Military Aid To Ukraine As Money Runs Out

Energy News Beat No more green for Zelenskyy. With war funding for both Ukraine and Israel now seemingly snarled up beyond repair in Congress, on Thursday the Pentagon said that funding delays have forced the US to begin restricting the flow of military assistance to Ukraine, and the Pentagon has only $1 billion left to […]

Rising Inflation Expectations Heap More Risks To Treasury Market

Energy News Beat Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The market’s point of focus in the UMich data is the higher-than-expected inflation expectations figure, which potentially brings more risks to bonds. One-year inflation expectations rose to 4.4% from 4.2%. But more saliently for the bond market, the long-term median of inflation expectations rose to […]

How an Ohio-based steel company cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly a third

Energy News Beat ​Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs’ success in beating its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its U.S. iron and steel operations won recognition from the Department of Energy last month. The progress is part of a broader industry trend to cut pollution that drives human-caused climate change. Yet advocates say there’s lots of room […]

German Gov’t Agrees To Bailout Giant Loss-Making Wind Farm, UK Increases Subsidies

Energy News Beat Reuters reports the German government, Siemens AG, and other parties will provide billions of euros in project-related guarantees to support Siemens AG’s struggling wind turbine division. This financial assistance comes just weeks after the company warned about mounting losses amid a meltdown across wind and solar industries. Three people familiar with the talks said that […]

N.C. industrial group will drop challenge to Duke Energy low-income assistance program

Energy News Beat ​A powerful consortium of pulp and paper mills and large manufacturers said Thursday it would drop its challenge to a Duke Energy aid program — ensuring tens of thousands of poor households in Asheville and eastern North Carolina will receive bill assistance next year after all. Set to begin in January in […]

Oil giant sues Greenpeace

Energy News Beat Shell is reportedly seeking over $2 million in damages after protesters boarded its floating oil production vessel Greenpeace is facing one of the biggest legal threats in its history after the environmental group’s campaigners occupied energy giant Shell’s floating oil platform earlier this year, Reuters reports. According to the news agency, citing […]

News organisations reject allegations of complicity in October 7 attacks

Energy News Beat Four international media outlets have denied accusations they had prior knowledge of the October 7 attacks by Hamas on southern Israel after an article by a pro-Israel media watchdog group HonestReporting questioned their work with Gaza-based freelance photojournalists. After the publication of the article by HonestReporting, which describes itself as “a charitable […]

Yale Is A “Campus Without Care” After Hosting ‘Anti-Israel’ Event, Jewish Students Say

Energy News Beat Authored by Micaiah Bilger via TheCollegeFix.com, Two students said Yale University barred them from an “anti-Israel” event this week, prompting them to listen through the door to “two hours of denial, lies and incitement” against Jews like themselves. Sahar Tartak, a sophomore, said in a post on X that she believes her school “has […]

Trump Judge’s Wife Denies Posting Anti-Trump Messages

Energy News Beat The wife of Judge Arthur Engoron has denied making anti-Trump posts on X, after conservative activist Laura Loomer said Dawn Engoron was behind an account that frequently posts anti-Trump content against the former president. According to Loomer, Dawn Marie Engoron ran a Twitter account @dm_sminxs, where she has allegedly been posting “FUCK […]

Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are by design, not default

Energy News Beat The gruesome scenes of death and destruction in Gaza are a reminder that for Israel, violence is not incidental, accidental or coincidental. It is part and parcel of its colonial DNA. Like the French in Algeria, the Dutch in Indonesia and South Africa, the Belgians in the Congo, the Spaniards in South […]