Scores of high-profile government officials, corporate interests and protestors converage by Egypt’s Red Sea for the next two weeks, charged with quickening the progress in curbing costly and deadly global Read more
Tag: Environment
Amazon.com funneling more dollars to women fighting climate change
It’s all hands on deck if the world is to solve its climate-change dilemma in just a few decades. But money in female entrepreneurial hands is much harder to come Read more
Don’t toss your Halloween candy wrappers without reading this first
Halloween fun is actually serious business, and that means the potential for lots of waste at a time when more of our shopping aims to be environmentally sound. There are Read more
Boeing stock slips on widening Q3 loss and revenue miss amid ‘challenging environment’
Boeing Co. reported a widening third-quarter loss and revenue that missed analysts’ estimates by almost $2 billion early Wednesday amid what the company’s CEO described as a “challenging environment.” Boeing’s Read more
GM stock rises after company beats on earnings amid ‘challenging environment’
Shares of General Motors Co. were moving higher in premarket trading Tuesday after the automotive company easily topped profit expectations for the latest quarter but fell slightly short on revenue. Read more
U.S. tosses 300 lbs. of plastic per person annually. Why we’re bad at recycling.
A scant 5% of the plastic waste generated in the U.S. last year was recycled, according to new research by Greenpeace. Americans discarded 51 million tons of wrappers, containers, bottles Read more
Yellen warns of ‘dangerous and volatile environment’ as she pledges to bolster Treasury market
““We’ve experienced energy shocks, food shocks, supply shocks, persistent inflation in many countries around the world, rising interests rates in many parts of the world and we have seen some Read more
Republicans have 2-in-3 chance of winning Senate in midterm elections, betting markets say
The Republican Party’s prospects in November’s midterm elections are continuing to climb this month, with betting market PredictIt now giving the GOP about a 2-in-3 chance for taking control of Read more
Inaugural Honeywell survey reveals strong corporate efforts to cut energy waste
Companies are setting aside more budget for energy and environmental sustainability as investors, consumers and boards will only increase their expectations for these efforts. That’s just one of the findings Read more
Midterm elections: Republican edge over Democrats in one key indicator rises to 4-month high
Here’s another sign of possibly waning Democratic momentum with the midterm elections just 19 days away: The Republican Party’s edge in the generic ballot has reached its highest level in Read more