Environment

Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg High gasoline prices are impacting all American drivers — but low-income households bear the brunt of it. That’s because low earners funnel a bigger share of their budgets to transportation costs and other staples, like food and energy, relative to wealthier households. U.S. gas prices had jumped to $4.32 a gallon, on average,
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Mischa Keijser | Image Source | Getty Images Clean energy is attracting billions of dollars in investments, but as the pace and scope of the transition to a greener economy accelerates, experts say the trend is just getting started. “I think we’re early days,” Eli Aheto, managing director at BeyondNetZero, said recently at CERAWeek. “There
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Cargo ships load and unload containers at Qingdao Port’s foreign trade container terminal in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province, Nov 11, 2021. Yu Fangping | Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images China’s trade surplus surged to historic highs during the pandemic as people consumed more goods than before, but analysts say the Russia-Ukraine war
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Gas prices in Westchester are above six dollars as prices at the pump continue to raise across the Southland on Sunday, March 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. Jason Armond | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Some Washington lawmakers are seeking to help curb prices at the gas pump by temporarily suspending the federal
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The International Monetary Fund will likely cut its global growth forecast to account for the economic consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, managing director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC on Thursday. “We think that we would be downgrading our growth projections as a result of the crisis, but we still expect the world to be
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An overhead view of a tidal turbine from Orbital Marine Power on September 6, 2021. William Edwards | AFP | Getty Images European installations of tidal and wave energy capacity jumped in 2021, as the ocean energy sector saw deployments revert to pre-pandemic levels and a substantial increase in investment. In figures released Thursday, Ocean
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