Bloomberg Here’s more evidence the clean-tech boom is only getting bigger. Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), the clean-tech venture capital fund led by Bill Gates, has raised $1 billion for a second round of investments after backing 45 startups with its first billion. Created in 2016, BEV began funding startups just as the second wave of clean-tech investments was gaining momentum. ...

Bloomberg Total SE has had the fastest start in the race between oil supermajors to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. Europe’s three largest oil and gas companies — Total, BP and Royal Dutch Shell — all announced plans last year to eliminate most greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and the fuels they sell in the coming decades. It marked a ...

No US president, or former president, has ever been convicted in a Senate impeachment trial. Donald Trump is highly unlikely to break that streak. That’s a principal reason some members of Congress started promoting censure as an alternative to impeachment right after the Capitol riot. The idea is getting new attention now that Senate Republicans have solidified their opposition to ...