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UK government to relax planning rules for onshore wind

Bloomberg The UK government will relax planning rules for onshore wind to allow projects to be deployed more easily, marking a significant policy shift. Britain vowed to speed up the planning process for energy infrastructure including offshore wind farms and new oil and gas fields in Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget. Onshore wind was effectively banned in 2016, but developers were ...

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Does Italian politics often stay in Italy? Maybe not

What happens in Italian politics doesn’t often stay in Italy. From Fascism to Nazism; from Berlusconi to Trump; from the rabble-rousing Five Star Movement to the disruption wrought by social media, Italy has often served as a political laboratory for liberal democracies. So, would a victory in Sunday’s election by the far-right Brothers of Italy and its leader Giorgia Meloni ...

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FedEx’s pricing power isn’t working!

After carving a fifth off the market value of FedEx Corp when it withdrew its annual forecast and announced preliminary results that fell well short of expectations, investors were in a more forgiving mood for the full quarterly report. They mildly welcomed FedEx’s effort to chop as much as $2.7 billion of costs over the next 12 months to offset ...

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