Press play to listen to this article BERLIN — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is finding out the hard way that there’s a lot more to leading Germany than being an Angela Merkel tribute act. Scholz meets Joe Biden at the White House on Monday as part of a US trip intended to repair the battering that … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A major California gas company has been ordered to pay the state nearly $10 million and reimburse customers for money it improperly spent on work related to developing energy-efficient building codes. The penalties faced by Southern California Gas Co. faces were ruled Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission. The commission, … Read more
British Gas has been forced to apologize to hundreds of thousands of customers after failing to repair and maintain faulty boilers this winter, the reports Telegraph. The energy giant promised to improve its customer service after being criticized for allowing its employees to work from home several days a week. A cold snap is forecast … Read more
Households across the UK are threatened by the prospect of a sharp increase in their energy bills – raising concerns that many people could be plunged into fuel poverty. In recent months, there’s been a Europe-wide energy crisis with a number of different factors at work – including the pandemic and geopolitical tensions in eastern … Read more
The government should set a clear legal date for banning the sale of new gas boilers as part of efforts to reduce emissions from homes, MPs demanded. Around 29 million existing UK homes will need to be retrofitted with low-carbon heating systems, along with energy efficiency measures such as insulation, as part of the drive … Read more
BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he will “soon” travel to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin amid what he called a “very serious” situation at the Ukrainian border. “I will now travel to the US, and I will soon be in Moscow to continue speaking about the questions that are necessary,” Scholz … Read more
The Labor Party is calling on the government to introduce a windfall tax on gas and oil firms, as millions of UK households face a sharp rise in energy bills this spring. Today (February 1st), Labor will put forward a motion in Parliament proposing that energy producers are subject to a one-off windfall tax, amid … Read more
Researchers fear that a ‘killer’ lake in Africa could kill millions of people, studies show. Freshwater experts warn that Lake Kivu, located between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, harbors potentially explosive gases. Kivu is one of Africa’s great ‘rift’ lakes because it has formed over an area of extensional tectonics in the continental … Read more