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UK utilities looking to a future without gas to heat homes

Bloomberg Several UK utilities are lining up to support changes to how households are taxed in Britain for their energy use. In an effort to make electricity cheaper for charging cars and heating homes, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is considering moving some levies away from power to gas bills. It’s a move that could kick-start the mammoth task ...

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Maersk bids farewell to fossil-fuel only ships

Bloomberg A century after the global shipping fleet ran largely on coal, the world’s largest shipping line is taking a historic step toward not using fossil fuels for propulsion. All newly constructed vessels owned by AP Moller-Maersk will have to be able to use carbon-neutral fuels, such as clean methanol and ammonia, as well as traditional oil-based products, the company ...

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Dems say they can’t work with Republicans. Why not?

“I came in expressing a strong spirit of bipartisanship,” President Barack Obama said, “and what was clear was that even in the midst of crisis, there were those who made decisions based on a quick political calculus rather than on what the country needed.” At the start of 2010, his second year in office, Obama was remembering what he called ...

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