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In Kolwezi in de zuidoostelijke provincie Lualaba van de Democratische Republiek Congo, zijn er spanningen tussen de ambachtelijke mijnwerkers en de industriële mijnbouwbedrijven. De stad bezit 70% van de kobaltreserves wereldwijd.

Washington Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday signed historic legislation creating an income tax, saying it is a critical step toward making the state’s system of taxation less regressive. The bill imposes a 9.9% levy on households with income above $1 million a year. Collections would begin in 2029 and generate around $3 billion a […]

In a time of financial challenges and political attack, innovative and collaborative partnerships across educational institutions offer the potential to improve practice and strengthen educational opportunities.

Preşedintele Nicuşor Dan a afirmat, luni seară, că atacurile dintre partidele din Coaliţie nu sunt o noutate, aşa că ”ne-au dat ocazia să ne obişnuim cu asta”. Şeful statului apreciază că pe plan administrativ lucrurile funcţionează, fiind luate decizii pentru guvernarea ţării. Perspectiva unui guvern minoritar nu crede însă că este cea mai fericită, în contextul actual.

A previsão do mercado financeiro para o Índice Nacional de Preços ao Consumidor Amplo (IPCA), referência oficial da inflação no país, passou de 4,17% para 4,31% este ano. A estimativa está no Boletim Focus desta segunda-feira (30), pesquisa divulgada semanalmente pelo Banco Central (BC) com a expectativa de instituições financeiras para os principais indicadores econômicos. […] Fonte

The practice of integrating pasture with trees has limited evidence of success for climate mitigation in the eastern United States.

Como o próprio nome diz, "Copan" aborda o cotidiano do imenso edifício em São Paulo projetado por Oscar Niemeyer nos anos 1950, símbolo da arquitetura moderna brasileira. O olhar da jornalista e cineasta Carine Wallauer sobre funcionários e moradores do prédio renderam um cativante documentário que venceu o prêmio principal do célebre festival "É Tudo Verdade", em 2025. Depois de ter passado pelo Cinélatino, em Toulouse, o público da capital francesa poderá assistir ao trabalho no Festival de Cinéma Latino-americano de Paris, em 10 de abril, onde concorre na categoria de longa-metragem.

"მსურს ამერიკის ხალხმა და იმ ადამიანებმა, ვინც ამ ეთერს უყურებს, იცოდნენ, რომ ეს [ოპერაცია ირანში] ფუნდამენტურად შეეხება მათი [ირანის] საჰაერო ბაზის გადადგურებას, რაც დიდწილად მიღწეულია; მათი საზღვაო ძალების განადგურებას, რაც დიდწილად მიღწეულია; მათი ქარხნების განადგურებას, სადაც მთელ ამ იარაღს ამზადებენ - საკმაოდ კარგად მივდივართ ამის მიღწევისკენ და მათი რაკეტების გამშვებების არსებითად შემცირებას, რომ მათ არ შეეძლოთ მომავალში დაემუქრონ თავიანთ მეზობლებს. ყველა ეს მიზანი ან წინსწრებით არის...

При этом Лукашенко давал интервью корреспонденту Би-би-си

Here’s what we heard about OAG’s plans. Outlier Media · Gina McPherson, Detroit Documenters · Office of the Auditor General fiscal year 2027 budget hearing

З вересня 2022 року Сервер Зекір’яєв практично безперервно перебуває або в єдиному приміщенні камерного типу, або в штрафному ізоляторі

A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Since EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) took effect in 2015, they’ve driven down dangerous mercury pollution from power plants by more than 90%. The standards have also delivered significant public health benefits, lowering the risk of cancer, heart and lung disease, and premature death.The following is a statement from the coalition challenging the repeal in court: “The repeal of these protections will mean more asthma attacks, emergency room visits, and premature deaths. This administration is not just rolling back rules, it is eliminating the monitoring infrastructure needed to know what is coming out of these smokestacks in the first place. It is allowing coal plants to spew out more neurotoxic mercury into our air and food supply, while simultaneously keeping the communities most at risk in the dark about how serious that threat is. This is a betrayal of the EPA’s core mission.”The repeal of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards follows a two-year exemption from the protections that the Trump administration granted to many coal plants, even though, according to the EPA’s own record, 93% of US coal capacity had already met or were on track to meet those standards.Since the Trump administration gave the country’s dirtiest coal plants a free pass, sulfur dioxide emissions have increased 18% nationally and neurotoxic mercury emissions have risen 9%. The sulfur dioxide spike was the second-largest single-year jump by percentage since EPA began publishing this data 30 years ago.Today’s lawsuit also challenges EPA’s rollback of real-time continuous emissions monitoring at power plants, which would have given communities accurate real-time data on the pollution they’re breathing and a stronger tool for enforcing compliance. The repeal violates the Clean Air Act, ignores the scientific record, and abandons safeguards that protect communities living near coal plants and downwind of their pollution.The lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by Earthjustice (representing Air Alliance Houston, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Clean Air Council, Kentucky Resources Council, Montana Environmental Information Center and Downwinders at Risk), Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, Clean Air Task Force (representing some of the other groups), Clean Wisconsin, Conservation Law Foundation, Dakota Resource Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Natural Resources Council of Maine, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center (representing some of the other groups).

Join the 27th International Symposium on Journalism online or in person and be part of crucial discussions on the future of the industry. The post Registration for ISOJ 2026 now open. Take advantage of early-bird rates appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Попри те, що Україна так і не почала отримувати обіцяні 90 млрд євро від ЄС, як запевняє Зеленський, на сьогодні кошти на зарплати, фінансування армії та пенсії є

Într-o declaraţie comună, miniştrii de Finanţe din G7 se declară pregătiţi pentru a lua toate măsurile necesare pentru prezervarea stabilităţii pieţelor energiei şi pentru a limita repercursiunile economice create de conflictul din Orientul Mijlociu. La finele unei reuniuni online a miniştrilor de Finanţe, Energiei şi a guvernatorilor băncilor centrale din G7, acest grup cere "tuturor statelor să se abţină să impună restricţii nejustificate exporturilor de hidrocarburi şi de produse derivate".

(The Center Square) — New Hampshire lawmakers are advancing a bipartisan proposal to create a new statewide battery recycling program that critics have called a "hidden" tax on consumers. The legislation, which cleared the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives Thursday on a 244-112 vote, would allow the state to join other states in a battery manufacturers’ program to provide recycling for lithium, rechargeable and alkaline batteries with the cost recovered nationwide by the manufacturers through pricing. Passage of the bill comes after House leaders recommended sending the bill to study. Backers of the proposal said the new program would make it easier to recycle batteries, prevent fires and toxic chemical releases, and allow the reuse of critical rare earth materials needed for electronics and battery production. But critics, including the New Hampshire chapter of Americans for Prosperity, called the proposed recycling program a "cash grab" that will ultimately be passed onto consumers in the form of a "hidden" tax on the products. "This bill will force costly, top-down mandates on manufacturers with no guardrails on how it could be passed along, and it will be passed along to taxpayers. That means higher prices at the register for everyday products that families rely on," Sarah Scott, AFP-NH's deputy state director, said in a statement. "Higher prices, bigger government, and less transparency are the exact opposite of what New Hampshire residents expect and deserve." The bill's primary sponsor, state Rep. Karen Ebel, D-New London, who is the chair of the Solid Waste Working Group, said in a summary of the bill that it would create a "business-operated program enhancing employee and first responder safety and keeping hazardous waste out of landfills." She pushed back on claims that it is a new tax. "There’s no state-imposed or industry-imposed state specific fee," Ebel wrote in the bill's summary. "All recycling costs are borne by the battery manufacturers, which support the nationwide effort to recoup valuable critical minerals from enhanced battery collection." The measure passed with bipartisan support from Republican lawmakers who said a battery recycling program would help keep toxic materials out of the state's landfills, where they can leach into groundwater supplies. "We need to keep batteries out of the waste stream and into a system designed to handle them safely to protect the community and help with national security," state Rep. Kelley Potenza, R-Rochester, said in remarks ahead of the bill's passage. "This should not be reduced to sound bytes and political games." Another supporter, state Rep. Judy Aron, R-Acworth, said the program will save cities and towns money on battery recycling programs that drive up local property taxes and will shift those costs to manufacturers. "This is not a tax, the costs are built into the product every day," Aron said in remarks. "Calling this a tax is inaccurate and ridiculous." Passage of the bill, which now moves to the Senate for consideration, comes after Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a similar proposal to set a mandatory surcharge on paint purchases and required manufacturers to finance a new program to collect unused paint. Critics also panned that bipartisan proposal as a "paint tax" that would be passed onto consumers.

საქართველოს პროკურატურამ მეორე ეპიზოდით წარუდგინა ბრალი ოპოზიციონერ პოლიტიკოსს, პარტია „მოქალაქეების“ თავმჯდომარეს, ალეკო ელისაშვილს. საგამოძიებო უწყებაში ამტკიცებენ, რომ მან თბილისის სასამართლოს შენობაში ცეცხლის გაჩენა 2025 წლის 4 მაისსაც სცადა.

El nuevo paquete de medidas incluirá una modificación de la fórmula de revisión del precio del transporte en función de la variación del precio del combustibleÓscar Puente adelanta más medidas de apoyo al sector del transporte ante la crisis por la guerra de Irán El Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible ha dado luz verde a un nuevo paquete de medidas para el sector del transporte por carretera, para paliar la subida de precios, sobre todo del combustible, como consecuencia de la guerra en Oriente Medio. En concreto, el Ministerio que encabeza Óscar Puente ha acordado con el departamento de mercancías del Comité Nacional del Transporte por Carretera (CNTC), que reúne a las principales patronales del sector, la aprobación de un nuevo Real Decreto-Ley con medidas adicionales para amortiguar la escalada de precios. Así lo han acordado en una reunión donde también han estado presentes el Ministerio de Hacienda y del Ministerio de Economía, según ha informado el Ministerio y el CNTC. El propio Óscar Puente ya adelantó en el VI Foro Económico de elDiario.es que el Gobierno estudiaba la puesta en marcha de nuevas medidas porque, tal vez le faltó un poco de “ambición”, al primer decreto, en esta materia. Y los transportistas habían reclamado avances. En caso contrario, abrían la puerta a paros y concentraciones. El nuevo paquete de medidas incluirá una modificación de la fórmula de revisión del precio del transporte en función de la variación del precio del combustible, que no necesitará revisiones adicionales en futuras situaciones, ya que estará vinculada al precio del combustible antes de impuestos. A fecha de hoy, el peso del combustible se incrementaría del 30% actual al 40%. También se aprobará la obligación de desglosar en la factura el ajuste por variación del precio del carburante prevista en el Real Decreto-ley 3/2022, eliminándose la posibilidad de recoger expresamente en los contratos otra forma de reflejar este ajuste. Por otra parte, el decreto incorporará las medidas implementadas tras la última reunión del viernes pasado, que se aplicaron inmediatamente a través de una nota técnica: los precios medios del gasóleo deberán tomarse como referencia sin incluir impuestos y, para el cálculo de la revisión del precio del transporte, no se podrán considerar las bonificaciones y ayudas extraordinarias. Por último, el Ministerio asume el compromiso de analizar, en el marco de estas medidas, un tipo sancionador que penalice el incumplimiento de las medidas anteriores y ambas partes se comprometen a mantener abierta la mesa de negociación permanente para perseguir los puntos pendientes que dependen de la aprobación de una autorización o de un marco temporal de ayudas de Estado por parte de la Comisión Europea.