Bloomberg Delta Air Lines pushed back the US debut of Airbus’s newest aircraft by a week because it can’t get needed approvals for the flights from the Federal Aviation Administration during the government shutdown. Inaugural flights of the Airbus A220 will be reset to February 7 from January 31, Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said. Other aircraft will be substituted …

Bloomberg In the environmentalist mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle,” almost all of the attention has been paid to recycling. Now some of the world’s biggest consumer brands are trying to shift the focus to the second R, with a programme that provides products in reusable containers that can be returned for a refund. The durable packaging programme, called “Loop” — a …

Bloomberg The European Union is prepared to hit 20 billion euros ($22.7 billion) of US goods with tariffs should President Donald Trump follow through on a threat to impose duties on EU cars and auto parts, said a senior trade official for the bloc. The assertion by Jean-Luc Demarty, director general for trade in the European Commission, the EU’s executive …