Bloomberg India’s government is likely to divide the country into three zones — red, orange and green — during the proposed extended period of lockdown and might permit a few services to function in safe zones, the Economic Times reported, citing people it didn’t identify. No activity will be allowed in the red zones where sizable number of cases were ...

Bloomberg By proposing to obliterate the legal justification for restricting toxic pollution from power plants, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has flouted bedrock practices that have driven federal policymaking for decades, according to a group of resource economists writing in the journal Science. Finalised in 2012, the agency’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) was the first US rule ...

Bloomberg Ethiopia’s government vowed to continue work on a massive dam that’s stoked tensions with Egypt, even as the Horn of Africa nation contends with the growing spread of the coronavirus. Completing what would be Africa’s largest hydropower reservoir, filling it and producing electricity is a top priority for Ethiopia, State Minister for Finance Eyob Tekalign said on a conference ...