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 …

Bloomberg The cost of pollution is headed for its biggest weekly gain in more than two years in Europe on optimism that the economy is preparing to snap back from coronavirus-imposed lockdowns. After falling 25% in March, the price of permits to emit carbon dioxide is still well below where it started the year. The gains are a sign that …