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• Time is running out to avoid the first major strike at shipping terminals along the East and Gulf coasts in nearly 50 years. A group of Biden administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, are meeting with United States Maritime Alliance representatives to negotiate a deal and prevent Tuesday’s planned strike.
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed a bill that would have required gas stoves sold in the state to come with warning labels about their air pollution emissions and health risks. Similar bills also failed to gain traction this year in Illinois and New York.
• A Turkish shipping company and its United Arab Emirates-based partner were sentenced and fined $2 million by the United States after a ship’s captain ordered his crew to dump polluted waste overboard into the ocean and allegedly tried to cover it up, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday.
• The Rosebud Sioux tribe is awarded $11.8 million in federal funding to electrify and retrofit homes on the tribe’s reservation in South Dakota.
• Texas scientists use some of the $20 billion from BP’s settlement over the Deepwater oil spill to grow and perhaps restore the 12 different coral species affected by the disaster. World
• Israel opened up a war on three fronts with major airstrikes on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen on Sunday. “The targets included power plants and a seaport used to import oil, which were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil,” said an Israel Defense Forces statement.
• India is seeking bids to supply 6,000 megawatts of electricity from renewable energy power projects for assured peak-hour supply with storage, according to a tender issued by state-run SJVN hydroelectric power generation company. India is looking to connect a record 35 gigawatts of solar and wind energy capacity to its grid during the year ending March 2025, with a target of increasing its non-fossil power capacity to 500 GW.
• A presidential spokesperson for Nigeria indicated Thursday that ExxonMobil Corp. has proposed a $10 billion investment in offshore oil operations in a new investment push in the country.
• A new onshore wind farm on the Shetland Islands will connect 500,000 UK homes to renewable energy, Interesting Engineering reported. Shetland is the windiest region in the UK, making it an apt choice for wind energy production, the publication explained.
• Stellantis wants to adopt the low-cost mindset of Chinese electric vehicle makers despite the European and U.S. tariffs CEO Carlos Tavares lambasts as anticompetitive, but the world’s No. 4 automaker must navigate trade barriers on both sides of the Atlantic if it wants to succeed.