The Wall street Journal | By: Megumi Fujikawa and Yoko Kubota | Updated July 20, 2017: Bank Of Japan leaves policy rates on hold, raises view on economy. Japan’s timetable for achieving stable inflation has again been extended by a year. The Bank of Japan on Thursday pushed back the Read more…
Sagaret | Original In French | GPE – July 21, 2017: No buildings visible to the naked eye, no towers at Kengo Kuma. The famous Japanese architect, chosen to oversee the new Olympic stadium in Tokyo, has only one credo: to reintroduce nature in cities. What he plans to do Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – July 21, 2017: It began innocently enough—a resume sent via email in Microsoft Word document format. But what transpired once power plant managers opened the files was unquestionably sinister. Originally posted July 10, 2017: Authorities report that since May 2017, hackers Read more…
The Third Pole | By: Katherine Purvis, July 19, 2017: The Indian government’s policy of using treated sewage water to run operations in coal-fired power plants is not economically viable and will do little to resolve conflicts over water use. An ambitious plan to reduce the dependence of India’s coal-fired Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Martin Kenney | July 19, 2017: I have long advocated that Grand Corruption should be considered a crime against humanity, under Article 7(1)(k) of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court. Given my prior interest and area of professional expertise, the recent announcement that Read more…
Barclays | By: Durukal Gun , Christian Keller, Sree Kochugovindan, Tomasz Wieladek | GPE – July 21, 2017: The period of hyperglobalisation that began in the early 1990s may be drawing to a close. Should deglobalisation come to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences for countries, corporations, and investors. Originally Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Gregory Zuckerman and Rob Copeland | Updated July 20, 2017: Steven Cohen, David Einhorn and others are facing looming tax bills for years of offshore gains. Hedge-fund managers for years accumulated offshore gains without paying federal and state taxes. Now Uncle Sam is Read more…
WaterWorld | By: Andrew Heath | GPE – July 21, 2017: Water infrastructure in the U.S. is in serious need of investment. The latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggest that the nation’s drinking water infrastructure needs $384 billion in new investment and our sewage and stormwater systems Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Alexandra Gillies | July 20, 2017: Shell companies have been called the “getaway cars” of corruption. In some jurisdictions, including the United States, individuals can easily set up anonymous companies and use them to hide stolen funds. Last week, members of congress introduced bipartisan bills Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By: Kevin Brehm | July 12, 2017: Market responses show rural electric co-ops and municipal utilities can save money with solar. On March 22, 2017, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Shine Program released a request for proposals (RFP) for community-scale solar on behalf of a group of rural Read more…
The Hill | By: Melanie Zanona | 07/20/17: The timing and fate of President Trump’s infrastructure plan may depend on whether the GOP enacts major tax reform — a task that could prove challenging amid the struggle to pass a healthcare bill. Republicans are signaling that a massive rebuilding package, Read more…
PART I: THE FAILURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC MODEL: An Anthropologist looking down on planet Earth from Mars could come to the conclusion that nothing much is working in the major social organization system which we call Democracy. The description below is not just a description of the American system but Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Christopher Greene and Deanne M. Barrow | GPE – July 19, 2017: Part One: Technological and cost breakthroughs are expected to lead to rapid growth in the number of utility and behind-the-meter storage projects. Industry insiders say the energy storage market in 2017 feels Read more…
Reuters | By: by Bate Felix | July 18, 2017: French utility EDF cut output at two reactors at its Tricastin nuclear plant in southern France on Tuesday, due to scorching temperatures, to reduce the amount of heated water from the reactors’ cooling system flowing into the Rhone river. The Read more…
Financial Times | July 18, 2017: This is shadow banking moving to the next stage of private money creation. Imagine a market where almost anyone can launch their own currency in exchange for millions of dollars of liquid funding without so much as a liability. Now imagine a market where Read more…
OECD | Report | GPE – July 18, 2017: Since the beginning of China’s economic transformation in the early 1970s, investment has been a key driver of China’s growth and has contributed to substantial improvements in living standards. Report originally published October 27, 2016: Over three decades of average annual Read more…
Pacific Institute | By: Rapichan Phurisamban and Peter Gleick | GPE – July 17, 2017: In February of 2017, the Pacific Institute released a white paper entitled Drinking Fountains and Public Health: Improving National Infrastructure to Rebuild Trust and Ensure Access, which highlighted the limited evidence of a link between Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Monday, July 17, 2017: The World Bank Group announced the debarment Friday of AECOM Asia Company Limited for 18 months for violating the Bank’s guidelines for consultants. The debarment is part of a Negotiated Resolution Agreement (NRA). A World Bank investigation Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Mick Mulvaney | July 12, 2017 6:41 p.m. ET: If the Trump administration has one overarching goal, it’s to Make America Great Again. But what does this mean? It means we are promoting MAGAnomics—and that means sustained 3% economic growth. For most of our Read more…
KPMG | GPE – July 16, 2017: Report originally published by KPMG in 2009: The development of infrastructure within China has consistently been a key focus for the government in the economic development initiatives encapsulated in regular Five-Year Plans, which are now into their eleventh cycle (2006 to 2010). With Read more…
Pricewaterhouse Coopers | Oxford Economics | GPE – July 16, 2017: Extract From The Report: Infrastructure spending has begun to rebound from the global financial crisis and is expected to grow significantly over the coming decade. That is the main finding of “Capital Project And Infrastructure Spending: Outlook To 2025” Read more…
Fortune International | GPE – July 16, 2017: The current focus of China on infrastructure development was explained in a special report originally published online by Fortune International on May 23rd 2013 – excerpted below: China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world’s second-largest Read more…
Financial Times | July 16th, 2017: Beijing pushes ahead with spending and new shipping routes through Arctic circle. China is ramping up acquisitions of overseas ports as it expands its reach as a maritime power, doubling its investments in port projects over the past year to $20bn and pushing ahead Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Sven Lindström | July 13, 2017: The stars are aligned for a breakthrough of small-scale solar energy in urban areas. This could completely change the world, the planet’s source of energy generation and save the environment. However, there are also obstacles to this bright future Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr. Thomas Hillig | July 11, 2017: The Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius has changed its power generation paradigms by reducing diesel consumption with a 1.89 MW solar PV and 1 MW/572 kWh Li-Ion battery energy storage system. THEnergy has performed a data analysis for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Michele Capots | July 12, 2017: Hurricane Sandy, known as Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Almost 2.5 million people were left without power in the aftermath of the storm. Damages were estimated to be more Read more…
Reuters | By: Colin Packham | July 14, 2017: SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Friday proposed new laws to compel companies such as U.S. social media giant Facebook (FB.O) and device manufacturer Apple (AAPL.O) to provide security agencies access to encrypted messages. The measures will be the first in an Read more…
Time | By: Melissa Chan | Jul 12, 2017: Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time, paving the way for more ambitious and futuristic breakthroughs. A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Jiao Wang, Leah Schleifer and Lijin Zhong | GPE – July 13, 2017: Drought in Kenya and neighboring countries became so severe earlier this year that the government of Kenya declared a national disaster. Already, the effects have been devastating: Food production dropped, leaving more Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | July 11th, 2017: Chief scientist Alan Finkel says it is clear that investors in the energy market prefer wind and solar because they are cheaper to build than traditional generation such as hydro and coal. Speaking to the National Press Club 12 days Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | GPE – July 12, 2017: Oil companies have realized that renewables aren’t going away—and they want to get in on the action. Originally published – June 13, 2017: Wind and solar have reached a point where they’re impossible for the world’s largest oil Read more…
Chatham House | By: Professor Paul Stevens | GPE July 12, 2017: The IOCs are faced with the choice of managing a gentle decline by downsizing or risking a rapid collapse by trying to carry on business as usual. Summary: Report Originally Published May 2016: The future of the major Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | July 11, 2017: The oil giant’s New Energies division launched last year with an annual investment budget of just $200 million. Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its move into alternative energy, with plans to spend up to $1 billion per year on its Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | July 11, 2017: The new company, Fluence, will combine AES’ expertise in utility-scale storage with Siemens’ global sales and engineering resources. Two of the biggest names in energy storage development have decided to join forces. AES, a leader in megawatt-hours deployed, will launch Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Perry Williams, Bloomberg | July 7, 2017: Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. has won a tender to supply what the billionaire says is the world’s largest lithium-ion battery to back up the state of South Australia’s blackout-plagued power grid, making good on a promise first made Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alexa Corse | July 11, 2017 5:30 a.m. ET: The intrusion failed, but the incident prompted new precautions and concern by lawmakers. Last August, Maryland’s State Board of Elections noticed something suspicious: Someone was probing the state’s online voter-registration system, using an internet address Read more…
Next Gov | By: Joon Ian Wong | July 11, 2017: Hackers in Singapore are going legit: The government may soon require them to get a license. As part of a draft bill that will make sweeping changes to Singapore’s national cybersecurity regime, already rated the world’s best by the Read more…
Defense One | By: Jack Watling | July 11, 2017: On Sunday, Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq, visited Mosul to herald the success of his army’s nine-month struggle to recapture the city from the Islamic State. In a speech on state television the next day, he declared “the Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jeff Yan | July 10, 2017: As the country seeks to install energy generation capacity at lightning pace, China is looking at how smart technologies in large solar PV plants can help save time and money while increasing energy production. As the private sector increasingly Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Kris Maher | Updated July 11, 2017 8:29 p.m. ET: Wish list for crumbling West Virginia facility is a big ask given U.S. funding levels. CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Two years ago, a safety area at the end of a runway designed to mitigate emergencies at Yeager Read more…
Reuters | July 12, 2017 | 5:36 AM: BEIJING (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Wednesday said it is setting up its first data center in China, in partnership with a local internet services company, to comply with tougher cyber-security laws introduced last month. The U.S. technology company said it will Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Monday, July 10, 2017 at 9:28AM: Three fund managers and a national government said in SEC filings last week that Odebrecht’s corruption scandal has become a problem and a risk factor for them. Brazil-based Odebrecht, an engineering and construction giant with Read more…
UPI | By Brooks Hays | July 10, 2017 at 3:46 PM: “The future long-term trend based on paleoclimate reconstructions is likely towards diminishing precipitation,” researcher Sevag Mehterian said. July 10 (UPI) — New analysis of Iranian stalagmites have offered a detailed history of water resources in the region. The Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | 2017-07-10: BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) — China has made progress in addressing environmental misconduct at drinking water sources in cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday. In May 2016, the ministry began an operation to inspect the management Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: An | 2017-07-10: With an area of about 400 square kilometers, the Purog Kangri glacier in Tibet is considered to be the third largest glacier in the world. It is melting at an accelerated rate, which has caused the formation of plenty of rivers and lakes, according to Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Kevin Sieff | July 10 at 7:32 PM: WINDHOEK, Namibia — Near the southern tip of Africa, 8,000 miles from Pyongyang, this capital city is an unlikely testament to North Korean industry. There’s the futuristic national history museum, the sleek presidential palace, the sprawling defense Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Liangyu | 2017-07-11: BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) – China’s sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation (CIC) said Tuesday that its overseas investment returned to profit in 2016 despite uncertainties in the global investment environment. CIC posted a U.S. dollar-denominated net return of 6.22 percent in overseas investment last Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Yamei | 2017-07-11: HAMBURG, Germany, July 11 (Xinhua) — The just-concluded G20 summit sent a positive signal that the world’s major economies, of which China is a bellwether, will push for “interconnected” growth, enhance economic cooperation and improve global governance. The Hamburg summit, themed “shaping an interconnected world,” Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Brian K Sullivan | 7 July 2017: Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a Read more…
Privacy Laws & Business | July 10, 2017: The EU Commission hopes to issue Japan with an adequacy decision on international data transfers by early 2018. A joint statement of 4 July by Věra Jourová, EU Commissioner for Justice, and Haruhi Kumazawa, a Commissioner of Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission, Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Monday, July 10, 2017 at 7:28AM Wall Street’s independent regulator warned that people claiming to be involved in the hiring process for legitimate organizations are using Skype and similar apps to phish for personal information and money. The Financial Industry Regulatory Read more…
Reuters | By: Phil Stewart and Valerie Volcovici | Jul 10, 2017 | 6:42am EDT: U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday backtracked on his push for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could happen, hours after his proposal was harshly criticized by Republicans Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Telis Demos | July 9, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: Big banks start rollout of machines that could be accessed with customers’ biometric data via a smartphone. In 2015, Citigroup Inc. C 0.41% began testing an ATM that would scan a customer’s iris and make Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Paul Hannon and David Harrison | Updated July 9, 2017 8:03 a.m. ET: Weak growth in prices questions traditional model of linking output and prices. Leading central banks plan to withdraw some of the stimulus measures they have put in place since the financial Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Aaron Gregg | July 9, 2017 | 2:00 PM: The Pentagon is taking initial steps to more closely enforce so-called “Buy American” laws, elevating a series of Depression-era statutes that require manufacturers to rely on U.S. materials when they make guns, equipment, uniforms and food Read more…
The Hill | By: Rebecca Savransky | July 09, 2017 | 12:47 PM EDT: In a surprise move coming out of the G-20 meetings with the world’s most powerful leaders, President Trump on Sunday shifted conversation from trade or healthcare or climate change — all key topics at the summit Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Elizabeth Douglass | July 8 at 7:00 AM: LAKE STATION, Ind. — This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | Friday, July 7, 2017 at 7:28AM: The World Bank debarred Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG for fifteen months after a former employee took bribes to influence contract awards on a project in Africa. Stuttgart-based Fichtner has about 1,500 employees worldwide. It Read more…
Financial Times | July 08, 2017: Seizure warrants are latest attempt to put financial squeeze on Pyongyang. Eight of the world’s biggest banks have been pulled into the US government’s efforts to isolate North Korea after officials secured warrants to seize funds that could have ties to the country. A Read more…
Reuters | By: Lisa Lambert | Fri Jul 7, 2017 | 6:12pm EDT: Many of the major risks U.S. banks face lay beyond their control, according to a review released by banking’s top federal regulator on Friday that found the sector’s financial performance remains strong. The U.S. Office of the Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Farrell | July 6, 2017: Two key moves will propel San Francisco toward an all-renewable electricity mix by 2030, potentially making the city — the 13th largest in the nation — a model for others eyeing a similar transition. In April 2016, city policy Read more…
Clean Technica | The Guardian | By: Steve Hanley | July 7th, 2017: Sea walls and barriers built by the Romans have endured for 1,500 years — far longer than anything made with modern concrete, which relies almost exclusively on Portland cement. A group of scientists was curious about Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg | July 6, 2017: BlackRock Inc. exceeded a $1 billion fundraising target for wind and solar investments for its latest global clean energy fund, underscoring investor interest in renewable energy amid policy uncertainty in key markets. The second Global Renewable Power Fund, Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By Brett Walton | GPE – July 07, 2017: Some wells gurgle and hiss before they die. Others expire with a puff of sand. Either way, the result is the same: no more running water. Report From Summer 2015: The rate of drinking well failures is Read more…
Newsdeeply.com | By: Mark Grossi | July 5, 2017: Drought conditions continue for thousands of rural residents in the San Joaquin valley who rely on groundwater. And the race to dig deeper wells is a losing game for small communities and those on private wells. MADERA, California – Evelyn Rios Read more…
Reuters | By: Jonathan Stempel | Fri Jul 7, 2017 | 5:06am EDT: U.S. authorities have tried to seize millions of dollars associated with several companies that deal with North Korea, including the country’s military, from eight large international banks, according to court filings made public on Thursday. The effort Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jacob Gershman, Ian Talley and Aruna Viswanantha | July 6, 2017 8:37 p.m. ET: A federal court in May gave the department authority to investigate alleged money laundering involving a Chinese coal-trading network. A federal court in Washington, D.C., has granted the Justice Department Read more…
Reuters | By: David Ingram | Jul 6, 2017 | 5:46pm EDT: A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) could move forward with a lawsuit that aims to free technology companies to speak more openly about surveillance requests they receive from the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge Read more…
Reuters | By Elias Gebreselassie | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 6:57am EDT: Ethiopia is enlisting the cooperation of people in and around its forests to manage woodland better, hoping to protect the country from the effects of climate change while boosting development prospects for its population of 100 million. Read more…
BBC News | By: Matt McGrath | 5 July, 2017: The global use of untreated waste water from cities to irrigate crops is much more widespread than previously estimated, says a new report. According to this updated assessment, nearly 30 million hectares are now using untreated water within 40km of Read more…
Reuters | By: Gabriele Pileri and Isla Binnie | Wed Jul 5, 2017 | 9:05am EDT: Baking summer heat has forced Rome to close some of the drinking fountains known as “big noses”, or “nasoni”, that constantly gush fresh water on thousands of street corners, causing a public outcry. Hit Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Joe Ryan, Bloomberg | June 29, 2017: As Elon Musk races to finish building the world’s biggest battery factory in the Nevada desert, China is poised to leave him in the dust. Chinese companies have plans for additional factories with the capacity to pump out Read more…
The Washington Post | By Darryl Fears | July 4 at 10:18 AM: The $19 billion bid to clean the Chesapeake Bay and restore its health rests on a simple plan: cut the amount of nutrient waste — involving nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment — that causes most of the bay’s Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | July 4th, 2017: Germany reached a new renewable energy record in the first half of this year, generating 35.1% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, according to the country’s trade body, the German Renewable Energy Federation. In news published only days Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | June 27, 2017: The U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami yesterday approved a resolution calling for 100 percent renewable energy in cities across the U.S. by 2035. “What better way to kick off Donald Trump’s energy week than with a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: James Mackintosh | July 3, 2017 10:15 a.m. ET: Unusually volatile reaction of investors to last week’s news about monetary policy is alarming in itself. Some dates deserve a place in market history. Black Monday 1987 and Black Thursday 1929 occurred before the VIX Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrés González and Arno Schuetze | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: Spanish power company Gas Natural (GAS.MC) has fired the starting gun in what is expected to be the biggest upheaval among European utility companies for a decade. Chairman Isidre Faine has contacted his counterpart Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrea Shalal | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 7:34am EDT: Germany is a big target of spying and cyber attacks by foreign governments such as Turkey, Russia and China, a government report said on Tuesday, warning of “ticking time bombs” that could sabotage critical infrastructure. Industrial espionage Read more…
The SPIFIS Foundation – A Global Project Engineering Solution: GPE proposes the use of a Single Purpose Infrastructure Foundation In Switzerland (SPIFIS). The choice of Switzerland is to take advantage of the management flexibility afforded by the Swiss Law. Swiss Foundations can do both for-profit and non-profit work within the Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Michael J Dyment and Mark G. Mykityshyn | June 26 – July 09, 2017: The rapid growth of the U.S. small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market is being driven almost entirely by the private sector, with thousands of professionals and companies working to Read more…
Reuters | Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 12:30pm EDT: Torrential rain lashed parts of central and south China on Monday, with floods damaging crops, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and killing at least 33, while the north wilted in a heat wave and drought-like conditions. Water levels Read more…
Reuters | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 5:43am EDT: The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. Days Read more…
Reuters | By: John McCrank | Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 11:29pm EDT: The prices of several big-name Nasdaq-listed (NDAQ.O) stocks appeared on some websites to either spike or plummet well after the closing bell on Monday, seemingly due to a glitch related to the market data that runs the Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Keiko Morris June 29, 2017 6:49 p.m. ET: Jury finds office building at 650 Fifth Ave. in New York connected to U.S. sanctions violations. Federal prosecutors won a court victory Thursday that paves the way for the government to seize a Midtown Manhattan office Read more…
The Current Status Of The Electricity Market: The Electricity market should be viewed as 2 separate branches: The Production Level The Transport Level The majority of electricity production today is still primarily using carbon-based fuels, which are highly polluting. In different countries, non-polluting renewable energy production today is between 10 Read more…
Dealing With The Results Of Mismanagement: Due to the lack of foresight and poor management of the water cycle as a whole, the following damages are recurring with increasing frequency: Water rationing even in countries with rainy climates; Destructive flooding; Destructive landslides; Potable water poisoning; Broken pipes; …and so on Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Parkin, Bloomberg | June 30, 2017: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition is widening access to the solar power market for people who rent their homes in a move to boost green power’s expansion in an election year. Lawmakers moved to pass legislation dubbed “Tenant Power” Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 30th, 2017: Renewable energy sources generated more than a quarter of the UK’s electricity in the first quarter of this year, with onshore wind setting a record high of 8.3%, helping to further dismantle the UK’s reliance upon coal energy. In Read more…
Defense One | By: Amy Zegart | June 29, 2017: It is hard to imagine more fitting names for code-gone-bad than WannaCry and Eternal Blue. Those are just some of the computer coding vulnerabilities pilfered from the National Security Agency’s super-secret stockpile that have been used in two separate global Read more…
Defense One | By: Stanislav Shalunov | June 29, 2017: The NSA, which sees its mission as collecting signals intelligence (by breaking into networks) as well as protecting vital U.S. systems, is partially to blame for Tuesday’s massive global cyber attack that hit utilities across Ukraine and Europe and even Read more…
Tribune de Geneve | By: Pierre-Alexandre Sallier | June 29, 2017: BNP Paribas is attacked in Paris for its role in arms sales at the time of the genocide. NGOs exhort the forgotten role of an account then opened in the Geneva bank UBP. The name of the Geneva-based asset Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Melanie Evans June 29, 2017 4:58 p.m. ET: Petya attack forces Princeton Community Hospital to use paper records as it scraps, rebuilds computer network. Princeton Community Hospital in rural West Virginia will scrap and replace its entire computer network after being struck by Read more…
Clean Technica | June 29th, 2017 | By: John Farrell: While most programs so far have targeted home comfort (central air conditioning or electric water heating), there are other sources of electricity consumption that remain untouched. In the past decade, two major trends have threatened the ability of electric utilities Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Bradley Olson | June 29, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: After weathering years of protests, pipeline operator TransCanada is struggling to attract customers amid low crude prices and competing oil-transportation options. Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By Courtney Fairbrother, Leia Guccione, Mike Henchen and Anthony Teixeira: PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT: This report explores challenges to effective innovation at U.S. electric utilities, with a focus on pilot and demonstration projects. We offer recommendations for utilities, regulators, and DER technology providers to support more Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Richard Schiffman | June 29, 2017: The breadbasket regions of India and Pakistan are rapidly depleting their underground aquifers. In a Yale e360 interview, climatologist Sonali McDermid explains why this overexploitation, combined with global warming, is creating an urgent need to change local farming practices. Read more…
Defense One | By: Alyza Sebenius | June 28, 2017: The Washington Post’s report last week on Russian cyber efforts to disrupt the 2016 election—and the Obama administration’s months-long debate over how to respond—ended on a foreboding note. Among the measures apparently adopted in response to the hack was “a Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Marianne Lehnis | 28th June 2017: Along with wind and sun, China has harnessed the power of insurance to catalyse its clean energy revolution, after having successfully pioneered government led re/insurance partnerships to safe-guard regional development with an index insurance scheme that makes a post-disaster payout Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nicole Perlroth and David E Sanger | June 28, 2017: Twice in the past month, National Security Agency cyberweapons stolen from its arsenal have been turned against two very different partners of the United States — Britain and Ukraine. The N.S.A. has kept quiet, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 27th, 2017: Renewable energy sources are now providing more electricity than nuclear power for the first time ever in the United States, according to figures issued by the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign. The Read more…