Bloomberg Australia is studying plans to transform a disused underground coal mine into a pumped hydro facility, part of a wider effort to reuse retiring fossil fuel sites for renewable energy generation. The A$13 million ($9.9 million) pilot trial at the Newstan Colliery, in Fassifern, about 140 kilometres (87 miles) northeast of Sydney, could offer a blueprint for dozens of ...

It’s hard to believe, but one year ago, the big news story was President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Twelve months later, a viral pandemic is killing thousands of Americans every day and Republicans are still so loyal to Trump that it took until now for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to acknowledge that he’d lost the November election.So it seems worth ...

Americans are in the final sprint of a record year of e-commerce spending, filling their digital carts with holiday gifts and decor in a year when public health concerns are keeping them away from stores. That online haul, though, foreshadows an unfortunate aftershock for retailers: A potentially unprecedented deluge of merchandise returns. Online purchases have long had higher rates of ...