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Facing increasing pressure from customers, some miners are switching to renewable energy

Oct. 01, 2023 21:26 PM EDT

SOROWAKO, Indonesia (AP) — Red hot sparks fly through the air as a worker in a heat-resistant suit pokes a long metal rod into a nickel smelter, coaxing the molten metal from a crucible at a processing facility on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The smelter run by global mining...

Trump campaigns before thousands in friendly blue-collar, eastern Iowa, touting trade, farm policy

Oct. 01, 2023 20:24 PM EDT

OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Former President Donald Trump campaigned in southeast Iowa Sunday in the middle of a fall campaign push aimed at locking in supporters with large organizing events. As he has with his other recent travels to the leadoff caucus state, Trump stumped in an area...

United Auto Workers strikes spread as 7,000 more workers at two plants join the picket line

Sep. 29, 2023 21:10 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union expanded strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, ordering 7,000 more workers to walk off the job in Illinois and Michigan to put more pressure on the companies to improve their offers. It was the second time the union has widened the...

An explosion following a lightning strike in the Uzbek capital kills 1 person and injures 162

Sep. 28, 2023 05:26 AM EDT

A powerful explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, killed a teenage boy Thursday and injured at least 162 people following a fire caused by a lightning strike, Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Health said. The Ministry of Emergency Situations said the explosion happened early in the...

Trump goes to Michigan to rail against Biden's electric vehicle push while GOP rivals debate

Sep. 28, 2023 00:39 AM EDT

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — As his Republican rivals sparred onstage in California at their second primary debate, Donald Trump was in battleground Michigan Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters by lambasting President Joe Biden and his push for electric cars in the midst of...

A new battery recycling facility will deepen Kentucky's ties to the electric vehicle sector

Sep. 26, 2023 14:52 PM EDT

A recycling facility will be built in Kentucky to shred electric vehicle batteries in a $65 million venture between American and South Korean companies that will supply material for a separate battery-related operation in the same town, the companies announced Tuesday. The...

More money pledged from Michigan for a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford pauses

Sep. 26, 2023 12:51 PM EDT

DETROIT (AP) — More money is being pledged in Michigan for the development of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford Motor Co. said it would pause construction until it's sure it can run the factory competitively. Ford announced the delay Monday and is in the...

Boost in solar energy and electric vehicle sales gives hope for climate goals, report says

Sep. 26, 2023 08:04 AM EDT

The window to limit human-caused warming to a globally agreed goal is narrowing but still open because of the huge growth of solar energy and electric vehicles sales worldwide, a report said Tuesday. For the last two years, the rate of the build up of solar energy and electric...

France's Macron unveils latest plan for meeting climate-related commitments in the coming years

Sep. 25, 2023 13:44 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron on Monday unveiled plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet the country's climate-related commitments within the next seven years, including via reducing dependency on fossil fuels and boosting electric car use. Macron said France's...

EU commissioner calls for more balanced trade with China and warns that Ukraine could divide them

Sep. 25, 2023 06:35 AM EDT

BEIJING (AP) — The European Union's trade commissioner called for a more balanced economic relationship with China on Monday, noting an EU trade deficit of nearly 400 billion euros ($425 billion), while also warning that China's position on the war in Ukraine could endanger its relationship with...