Bloomberg Senator Lisa Murkowski said President Donald Trump is interested in opening up new coastal waters for oil and gas drilling and reversing Obama-era policies that restrict energy development in Alaska. Both Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are weighing ways to expand opportunities to drill in Arctic waters though the changes could take years to accomplish administratively, Murkowski …

  Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd. has sent a formal request to meet with union leaders at the world’s largest copper mine in Chile, the first attempt to meet since talks failed on February 20, the company said in an emailed statement. BHP wants to propose a new wage offer that includes improvements in several areas that the union has said …

  Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. failed to persuade a judge to approve a settlement offering 1.6 million California drivers an average of $1.08 each to dispense with alleged labor-code violations that their lawyer earlier claimed might have been worth billions of dollars. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson issued a tentative ruling rejecting a deal aimed at resolving one …