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The climate impact of Donald Trump’s geopolitical ambitions could deepen planetary catastrophe, triggering a global military buildup that accelerates greenhouse gas emissions, a leading expert has warned.The Pentagon – the US armed forces and Department of Defense (DoD) agencies – is the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter, accounting for at least 1% of total US emissions annually, according to analysis by Neta Crawford, co-founder of the Costs of War project at Brown University.Over the past five decades, US military emissions have waxed and waned with its geopolitical fears and ambitions. In 2023, the Pentagon’s operations and installations generated about…
The deadline to submit speaker abstracts or award applications for the 2025 NextGen Supply Chain Conference is fast approaching. To accommodate the large interest we have received from those seeking to speak or apply for awards, we are extending the deadline for both speaker abstracts and award submissions one week to allow everyone the chance to be considered. All applications must be submitted by the end of the regular business day on Friday, June 6. To submit an award application: https://www.nextgensupplychainconference.com/awards/ To submit a speaker abstract: https://www.nextgensupplychainconference.com/speakers/ The 2025 NextGen Supply Chain Conference will be held from Oct. 22-24, 2025, at the W Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. As…
Robert Tuttle and Brian K. Sullivan, Bloomberg May 29, 2025 (Bloomberg) — Wildfires are threatening about 5% of Canada’s crude output as a blaze in Alberta’s oil sands region spreads and approaches major production sites. Canada’s oil sands A total of 26 out-of-control fires are burning in the province amid hot, dry weather, bringing flames within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of about 245,000 bopd production, according to data from Alberta’s energy regulator and wildfire department. The province had only four out-of-control fires on Monday. A blaze near Cold Lake, along Alberta’s eastern…
India is exporting more diesel on the east of Suez route into Southeast Asia in May, with shipments to the region on track for a four-year high, Reuters reported on Friday, quoting vessel-tracking data and trade sources.India is estimated to have shipped 600,000 metric tons, or 4.47 million barrels in total, to Southeast Asia in May, according to data from tanker-tracking services Vortexa, LSEG, and Kpler.This is the highest such volume since 2021, as higher margins and lower shipping costs support more volumes heading east of India instead of to the European market.India’s diesel exports to Europe, on the other…
Sustainable agriculture and biological solutions provider Indigo Ag and Microsoft announced their second carbon removal agreement, with a new commitment from Microsoft to purchase 60,000 soil carbon credits generated through the promotion of regenerative agriculture practices by U.S. farmers. The new transaction follows an initial 40,000 carbon credit purchase agreement by the companies last year. Founded in 2013, Indigo Ag provides nature-based and digital technologies aimed at helping farmers improve profitability and environmental sustainability. The company launched its carbon program in 2019, helping farmers adopt regenerative agriculture practices including cover crops, diversified crop rotation, reduced tillage and improved nitrogen timing,…
Michigan is sitting on a motherlode of potash and Ted Pagano is using $1.3 billion in government funds to mine it and grab market share away from Canada and Russia. The eureka moment came in 2012, when professor emeritus William Harrison of the University of Western Michigan invited Ted Pagano, then a 35-year-old freelance geologist, to his 27,000-square-foot geological repository in Kalamazoo. A rock nerd’s heaven, the warehouse’s heavy-duty shelves feature crates of minerals from across the state. But Pagano was there to see something specific: the 80 pallets of rock cores donated in 2008 by the Mosaic Company, a…
Libyan authorities have arrested three suspects accused of breaking into the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), the Attorney General’s Office said shortly after the eastern government warned it could declare force majeure on oilfields and oil export terminals.Representatives of a militia broke earlier this week into the NOC headquarters in Tripoli, and demanded that they be given jobs protecting the building.In response to the incident, the Benghazi-based eastern government of Libya said it might declare force majeure on oil export terminals and oilfields due to “repeated assaults on the National Oil Corporation (NOC).”Although the Libyan government in the…
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) provider SkyNRG announced today a new investment round, raising up to €300 million (USD$340 million), with proceeds aimed at growing its platform with new SAF production facilities across Europe and the U.S. The funding round included an investment of up to €250 million from global pension asset manager APG on behalf of Dutch pension fund APB, and approximately €50 million from returning investor Macquarie Asset Management (MAM). Arjan Reinders, Head of Infrastructure Europe at APG, said: “SkyNRG is a frontrunner in the SAF market, demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong commercial focus. SkyNRG represents the…
In a release sent to Rigzone on Thursday, Baker Hughes announced an award from Frontier Infrastructure Holdings for 16 NovaLT gas turbines to power its data center projects in Wyoming and Texas. Baker Hughes noted in the release that, as part of the award, it is supplying Frontier its NovaLT gas turbine technology and associated equipment, including gears and Brush Power Generation four-pole generators, to power dedicated energy islands at Frontier’s behind the meter (BTM) power generation sites. The NovaLT gas turbine is a multi-fuel solution that can start-up and run on different fuels, including natural gas, various blends of…
Call it an “Everything Store,” just without the clutter.Amazon has been getting rid of billions of product listings deemed “unproductive” through a confidential project called “Bend the Curve,” according to an internal planning document obtained by Business Insider.The document reveals that Amazon planned to remove at least 24 billion ASINs, or unique product listings, from its marketplace. These underperforming items range from poor-selling items to those with misleading descriptions or inactive pages.”Reduce active ASINs in the Amazon Catalog to be less than 50B (projected to be 74B by EOY 2024) by cleaning up unproductive selection,” the document stated, giving a…