Project Syndicate | By: Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng | August 30, 2017: Financial markets today are thriving. The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq composite index have all reached record highs lately, with emerging-economy financial Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 04, 2017: Prices for bitcoin and ethereum tumble after ban announced. Chinese authorities banned a type of fundraising using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, dealing a blow to startups and other businesses Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Kenneth Bossong | GPE – September 04, 2017: The latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information’s (EIA) “Electric Power Monthly,” with data through June 30, reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alyssa Abkowitz and Liza Lin | September 04, 2017: Alphabet unit is seeking engineers to fill jobs related to AI, cloud computing in country seen as having certain advantages over U.S. Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | Updated September 04, 2017: Communities face surging toxic fumes and possible water contamination, as refineries and plants report more than 2,700 tons of extra pollution Hurricane Harvey has resulted in Houston’s petrochemical industry Read more…
Reuters | GPE – September 03, 2017: Launches of new digital currencies, known as initial coin offerings (ICOs), have shaken up social and economic order, created hidden financial risks, and in some cases may amount to fraud, China’s National Internet Read more…
Reuters | By: Swati Pandey | GPE – September 03, 2017: Australia said on Thursday it would strengthen its money laundering laws, including bringing bitcoin providers under the government’s financial intelligence unit, days after a fresh scandal at one of Read more…
Reuters | By: Stephen Nellis | August 29, 2017: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday unveiled tools to make augmented reality apps for mobile devices using the Android operating system, setting up its latest showdown with Read more…
Xinhuanet | By: Xiang Bo | August 29, 2017: XI’AN, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — A resort hotel in Yangling, an agricultural high-tech demonstration zone in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has seen its tax drop by 670,000 yuan (about 101,200 U.S. Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 28, 2017: From 1m in 2013, the number of Chinese in the continent is in decline, analysts say Like dozens of others from his sleepy fishing village on China’s south-east coast, Wen Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 28, 2017: Centuries of centralisation blamed for neglect, rural flight and sense of abandonment In a wave of national solidarity, donations and emergency assistance have been flowing into the scattered hillside communities Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 24, 2017: Unanimous privacy ruling dents government attempts to register country’s 1.3bn people Narendra Modi’s plans to widen the scope of India’s vast biometric identification system have been dealt a blow by Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 24, 2017: China’s reliance on infrastructure to drive overall investment hit a new high last month, raising worries that Beijing’s intensifying crackdown on local government debt, which mainly finances infrastructure, will drag Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Nicole Hong | August 23, 2017: Judges reject former SAC Capital Advisors manager Mathew Martoma’s request for new trial: Prosecutors recovered lost ground in their fight against insider trading with a court decision Wednesday Read more…
Xinhuanet | July 12, 2017: LHASA, July 12 (Xinhua) — Yandao, 35, had never been to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before he joined an observation team on China’s second scientific expedition to the plateau in June. Yandao, a member of the Blang Read more…
Xinhuanet | August 17, 2017: XINING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — A living biobank was set up in northwest China’s Qinghai Province on Wednesday. The living biobank is in Dulan County on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The county is home to 43 Read more…
Xinhuanet | July 27, 2017: SHENZHEN, July 27 (Xinhua) — A total of 155 nature reserves exist on China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to figures released at the ongoing 19th International Botanical Congress in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The Read more…
The Hill | By: Michael Delagarza | August 19, 2017: In January, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced: “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman | August 14, 2017: Electric car owners are earning as much as $1,530 a year just by parking their vehicle and feeding excess power back into the grid. Trials in Denmark carried out Read more…
CleanTechnica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | August 18, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses Read more…
Energy Post | By: Geoffrey Styles | August 7, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important Read more…
Risk.Net | By: Louie Woodall | August 17, 2017: US regulators are raising concerns about the use of machine learning techniques to assess contagion risks in bank model networks. Last year, certain entities supervised by the US Federal Reserve were asked to analyse Read more…
FirstPost | By: Various Authors | August 17, 2017: Agartala: Due to severe floods in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar, the northeastern region has been cut off by rail from the rest of India for about a week, officials said on Read more…
The Weather Channel | By: Ada Carr | August 16, 2017: Spain’s Tagus River is at risk of drying up completely due to drought and water transfer. The river is subject to a water management plan over a decade old Read more…
Reuters | By: Amantha Perera | August 16, 2017: ADIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scorched by a 10-month drought that has killed crops and reduced residents to buying trucked-in water, Adigama’s young people are voting with their feet. Read more…
Reuters | August 18, 2017 BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will strengthen rules to defuse risks for domestic companies investing abroad and curb “irrational” overseas investment in its Belt and Road initiative, the state planner said on Friday. The National Development Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Nick Henderson | August 17, 2017: If an employee or a contractor helps someone evade their taxes, that business can be prosecuted for failing to prevent it happening. The Criminal Finances Act applies to any Read more…
MIT | By: Peter Dizikes | GPE – August 16, 2017: Study: People willing to pay more for running water report much higher levels of happiness when they have it. Originally published January 14, 2013: If you’re reading this, odds Read more…
MIT | By: Peter Dizikes | August 14, 2017: One drought remedy: Keep infrastructure fast, cheap, and under control. If you live in the developed world, safe water is usually just a faucet-turn away. And yet, global warming, drought conditions, Read more…
Nextgov | By: Joseph Marks | August 14, 2017: The IRS is still failing to adequately protect U.S. taxpayers’ personal information and sensitive financial data, according to an audit report announced Monday. The Government Accountability Office is not releasing the Read more…
Defense One | By: Brietta Hague | August 14, 2017: In 1991, Estonia was part of the dying communist empire. Its economy was run by central planners in Moscow, less than half of all households had a phone line, and Read more…
Water Resources Research | By: Various Authors | GPE – August 15, 2017: Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. Originally published 31st July 2017: The increase in dam removals—particularly large dams—and Read more…
Defense One | By: Jack Corrigan | August 11, 2017: Foreign and domestic hackers probed hundreds of security holes in critical Air Force networks for weeks in late spring, and the Pentagon knew all about it. But instead of getting Read more…
McKinsey & Company | By: Daniel Mikkelsen, Kayvaun Rowshankish, Henning Soller, and Kalin Stamenov | August 2017: Data protection has always been important. Now it’s becoming urgent. Here’s a primer on how companies can adapt to the new rules. Europe Read more…
Science Daily | Source: American Chemical Society | August 09, 2017: Lead in drinking water is a decades-old problem and still poses serious public health risks today. In response, utilities are replacing segments of old lead pipes that are causing Read more…
The FCPA Blog | August 11, 2017: The five government agencies with the most ongoing FCPA-related investigations as of today, according to FCPA Tracker, are: 1. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — 79 Investigations 2. U.S. Department of Justice — Read more…
US News | By: Jovana Gec ~ Associated Press | August 10, 2017: Authorities and experts are warning that extremely hot and dry summer this year in the Balkans has decimated crops, dried rivers and hurt the animal world. Evidence Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Mark Maremont and Christopher S. Stewart | August 10, 2017: Affidavit alleges American citizen Mohamed Elshinawy was part of a global network stretching from Britain to Bangladesh. U.S. investigators uncovered a global financial network Read more…
Water & Wastewater International | GPE August 10, 2017: BATH, UK – Algae ponds are being used to remove nutrients and treat wastewater in a joint project between the University of Bath and utility Wessex Water. Originally published July 31, Read more…
Reuters | August 10, 2017: BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sent an “unbreakable” code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realized, state media said on Thursday. China launched the Read more…
UK Information Commissioner’s Office | By: Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner | August 09, 2017 The General Data Protection Regulation comes into force on 25 May 2018. That’s not new news. But it is a fact. It’s also fact that not Read more…
Privacy Laws & Business | August 07, 2017: The Data Protection Bill will implement into UK law the GDPR derogations and the EU Data Protection Law Enforcement Directive, the government announced today. The majority of the EU General Data Protection Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Shruti J. Shah | August 09, 2017: Anonymous companies have attracted much attention in the past couple of years, and for good reason. These companies are used to facilitate a number of crimes, including corruption, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | August 07, 2017: Bill Burr’s 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly — he regrets the error. The man who wrote the book on password Read more…
Forester Network | By: Margaret Buranen | August 04, 2017: A common purpose runs through many, likely most, stormwater projects in the greater Seattle area and other western Washington cities, certainly in the projects profiled in this story. Their shared Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Steven Smart | August 07, 2017: Halliburton’s recent decision to enter into a $29.2 million settlement with the SEC over alleged FCPA violations in Angola illustrates the challenges faced by corporate compliance officers in designing Read more…
Reuters | By: Jonathan Saul | August 07, 2017: The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships’ satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology. Ships use Read more…
The Financial Times | By: Claire Manibog | August 6, 2017: Reckoning continues 10 years after housing downturn became market meltdown. Financial institutions have paid more than $150bn in fines in the US relating to the credit crisis, passing a Read more…
Photon.info | By: AECEA ~ Panda Green Energy Group Ltd. | August 06, 2017: China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) released official statistics concerning 1H/2017 solar PV deployment and confirmed formerly disclosed information, that during the 1H/2017 in total 24.4 GW Read more…
Lexology.com | By: Bryan Cave LLP | August 02, 2017: Two companies in Singapore, CSE Global and CSE Transtel, agreed to pay the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) $12,027,066 to settle charges that they violated the Iran Transactions and Read more…
Science Daily | By: Kansas State University | August 02, 2017: A comparison of a section of the Arikaree River in northwest Kansas in 2006 on the left and in 1996 on the right shows the decreased water flow. Photos Read more…
The Associated Press | ABC News | Aug 03, 2017: The Egyptian government has increased the prices of drinking water and sewage fees up to 50 percent as part of an extensive economic reforms program aimed at closing the budget Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robb M. Stewart | Aug. 3, 2017: Australia’s financial-intelligence agency accused the nation’s biggest bank of failings it said may have opened the way for money laundering and financial crime. In a civil suit Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tom Nockolds | August 3rd, 2017: Community energy is a global phenomenon. Wherever we find people, we tend to find communities stepping forward to have a greater say and determination in what their future energy supplies Read more…
The Financial Times | August 04, 2017: As you cross the bridge over the Rhine at Leverkusen you notice something strange. This is one of Germany’s most critical transport corridors, near one of its biggest industrial hubs — yet among Read more…
The Financial Times | August 03, 2017: Attackers have cracked some of the most difficult problems for traditional companies. Buried in the avalanche of recent cyber attacks, there is good news and bad. Ransomware attacks, which paralysed many organisations — Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – August 04, 2017: Scientists do not know how much groundwater is left. Originally published June 16, 2015: Population growth and agriculture are putting unsustainable demands on the world’s largest aquifer Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Saurabh Mahapatra | August 01, 2017: The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), responsible for conducting wind energy auctions in India, has seen a tremendous response to the latest 1 gigawatt tender. Originally published on CleanTechies: Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Hidayah Hamzah Hidayah Hamzah | GPE – August 02, 2017: Flooding is the tragic norm in Jakarta, a megacity where major floods took 40 lives and cost IDR 32 trillion ($2.4 billion) in 2013. The Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | August 1, 2017: The Agua Caliente tribe wants a say in how an aquifer under its Coachella Valley reservation is used. Deep beneath the desert east of Los Angeles is a Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – August 01, 2017: As utilities across America struggle to afford the repair of aging water infrastructure and climate change impacts water scarcity, the nation’s poor are simultaneously challenged to pay rising Read more…
Inter Press Service (IPS) | By Daniel Gutman | GPE – August 01, 2017: Hand in hand with UN Environment and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) disembarked in the Argentine capital to prompt this Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Roberto J. Gonzalez and Michael E. Gertzman | August 1, 2017: Last week the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a $12 million settlement with CSE Global Limited and its subsidiary, CSE Read more…
Reuters | By: Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Anna Irrera | August 1, 2017: Bitcoin’s underlying software code could be split on Tuesday to create a clone called “Bitcoin Cash,” potentially providing a windfall for holders of the digital currency. The initiative Read more…
Reuters | By: Anne Marie Roantree | August 1, 2017: Hong Kong’s securities regulator has vowed to take action against private equity funds and discretionary accounts involved in “improper activities” amid increased market scrutiny by authorities and investors in the Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Jianwei (Jerry) Fang | July 31, 2017: In June this year, the Market Supervision Commission of the Shenzhen Municipality published an instructive standard document named Anti-bribery Management System Shenzhen Standard to help companies and other Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Bob Davis and Eva Dou | July 27, 2017: The semiconductor industry, a stalwart of the global economy, is succumbing to fierce nationalistic competition. At a muddy construction site the size of 12 baseball Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Dan Frosch | Updated July 30, 2017: Areas that were scorched by fires are particularly prone to flooding amid heavy rains. As wildfires have quieted in some parts of the U.S., Western states have Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Byron Tau | Updated July 29, 2017: At demonstration to test security of election technology, a computer specialist exploits an old Windows XP flaw. A touch-screen voting machine used in a 2014 election in Read more…
Reuters | By: Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Anna Irrera | July 28, 2017: Technology companies looking to raise money by issuing digital coins are moving forward with their plans despite a U.S. regulator’s decision that their offerings may be subject to Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | July 26, 2017: Fewer people, higher rates, a state report shows. Customers of the smallest utilities in California pay more than twice as much for sewer service than residents of the state’s Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | July 24, 2017: Restrictions on utilities result in weak aid programs, study finds. Beginning this year, poor residents in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, could apply for a $US 240 Read more…
Reuters | By: Sarah N. Lynch | July 27, 2017: Wall Street’s top U.S. regulator needs to improve the way it protects its own computer networks from cyber attacks, according to a new report by a congressional watchdog office. The Read more…
Rigzone | By: Matthew V. Veazey | July 27, 2017: Telematics device designed to track frac tanks, construction equipment and other assets. The commercial telematics firm SkyBitz has unveiled a two-way global satellite communication and tracking device for oil and Read more…
The Guardian | By: Senay Boztas | July 27, 2017: A pilot scheme in the Netherlands is sifting sewage for cellulose, which it says can be recycled into valuable products. When you flush the toilet, you’re probably not thinking about Read more…
Time | By: Charlie Campbell / Baotou | Jul 27, 2017: With hands stretched wide, Meng Baoyindaogetao backs the ewe into a corner, seizes it by the horns and swings his leg over its back. A farmhand then approaches cradling Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | July 27, 2017: The release of “treated” wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations in Pennsylvania has led to regional watersheds being contaminated with radioactive materials, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and heavy metals, according to a Read more…
Reuters | By: Christine Kim | July 28, 2017: North Korea is behind an increasingly orchestrated effort at hacking into computers of financial institutions in South Korea and around the world to steal cash for the impoverished country, a South Read more…
The Detroit News | By: Christine Ferretti | GPE – July 27, 2017: Detroit — The city’s water department began the controversial practice of shutting off water service on Wednesday to some of the nearly 18,000 residential customers with delinquent Read more…
The Guardian | By: Rebecca Smithers | July 26, 2017: Travellers are left to buy expensive and wasteful plastic bottles of water after passing through security, says consumer website MoneySavingExpert.com More than half of the UK’s international airports do not Read more…
Reuters | By: Brenda Goh | July 27, 2017: China to speed up bullet trains in September: state media. China plans to raise the speed of its bullet trains back up to 350 kph (217 mph), state media reported on Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | July 26, 2017: India is making great strides to aggressively expand its renewable energy capacity. But the country’s power sector remains highly reliant on thermoelectric plants, with high demand for water for Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Mara Lemos Stein | Jul 26, 2017: Provisions in the U.K.’s Criminal Finances Act of 2017 allowing for greater information sharing by financial institutions are unlikely to spur a flurry of joint reports of Read more…
Reuters | By: Jack Stubbs, Karolina Tagaris and Anna Irrera | July 26, 2017: A U.S. jury indicted a Russian man on Wednesday as the operator of a digital currency exchange he allegedly used to launder more than $4 billion Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Paul Vigna and Dave Michaels | Updated July 25, 2017: At issue is sector where more than $1 billion has been raised this year but which has been criticized for lacking standards. The Securities Read more…
US Treasury | Financial Crimes Enforcement Network | July 26, 2017: Treasury’s First Action Against a Foreign-Located Money Services Business. WASHINGTON—The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Read more…
Zurich | Knowledge Hub | World Economic Forum | GPE – July 26, 2017: North American companies rely heavily on both physical and digital infrastructures. Find out why your company could be compromised by these risks and ways you can Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Mark Nensel | Jul 25, 2017: The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), working with US intelligence experts, built a large personal electronic device (PED) laden with explosives and tested it “on a real airplane, on Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | Jul 25, 2017: The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and UK CAA are tightening their unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) rules, just as research was released on the potential collision damage to commercial Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Luke Gallin | July 24, 2017: Brazilian reinsurer, IRB Brasil RE, has licensed RMS’ China and India agricultural models in an effort to expand its presence in the global reinsurance market. Global catastrophe risk modeller and Read more…
ARS Technica | By: Megan Geuss | July 25, 2017: Without planning and cooperation, EU countries could be up against a water problem. Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Codi Kozacek | GPE – July 26, 2017: Trust, cooperate, and innovate for safe water and thriving communities. Originally published May 16, 2016: America’s substantial water challenges are not secret any longer. Cities poisoned by Read more…
Global Infrastructure Outlook | Report | GPE – July 27, 2017: Developing and emerging economies will drive future economic growth, growing at more than twice the rate of advanced economies. By 2040, global GDP is predicted to almost double from Read more…
Defense One | By: Mitch Herckis | July 25, 2017: Retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen has seen the cyber threat in action and believes it’s targeted at counties. That was his message to a roomful of county officials at Read more…
UK Department for Transport | Military Aviation Authority | British Airline Pilots’ Association | GPE – July 26, 2017: The Department for Transport, the Military Aviation Authority and British Airline Pilots’ Association commissioned a study into the effects of a Read more…
The Hill | By: Naomi Jagoda | July 25, 2017: The IRS is seeing a rise in business-related identity thefts even as the number of individuals who report ID theft is significantly declining. “The IRS, state tax agencies and the Read more…
Waterworld International | By Paul Grad | GPE – July 25, 2017: Costing AUD$11.2 million, the Sydney Park project embodies Australia’s advanced stormwater management success. Helping the city to meet ambitious targets, as well as reusing water, what can the Read more…
GE Reports | By: Nir Kshetri | GPE – July 25, 2017: No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain. Here are four real examples, compiled by Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at The University of Read more…
GE Reports | By: Mark Egan & Dorothy Pomerantz | GPE – July 25, 2017: Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made Read more…
The Guardian | Australian Associated Press | July 25, 2017: Modelling suggests Australia would face more frequent drought-inducing weather events beyond any climate stabilisation. Extreme El Niño events that can cause crippling drought in Australia are likely to be far Read more…