Weary from the long fight to save his land, Thiele has become a realist. This isn’t the first time he’s had a reason to think the Bull Mountains mine might close.
According to the Kyiv School of Economics, 2,329 foreign companies are still doing business in Russia, many from China or other countries that aren’t allied with Ukraine, while 1,344 are in the process of leaving and 494 have exited completely. The Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute lists some two dozen U.S. companies still doing business in Russia, while some 100 more have cut back by halting new investments.U.S. sanctions are considered the toughest, because they carry the threat of being cut off from the U.S. banking and financial system. But the EU is still slapping new rounds of sanctions on Russia. Even if U.S. sanctions are dropped, EU sanctions would continue to present compliance headaches for any company that also wants to do business in Europe.
More than $14 billion in clean energy investments in the U.S. have been canceled or delayed this year, according to an analysis released Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s pending megabill has raised fears over the future of domestic battery, electric vehicle and solar and wind energy development.Many companies are concerned that investments will be in jeopardy amid House Republicans’ passage of aclean energy credits, nonpartisan group E2 said in its analysis of projects that it and consultancy Atlas Public Policy tracked.
The groups estimate the losses since January have also cost 10,000 new clean energy jobs.The tax credits, bolstered in the landmark climate bill passed under former President Joe Biden in 2022, are crucial for boosting renewable technologies key to
. E2 estimates that $132 billion in plans have been announced since the so-called Inflation Reduction Act passed, not counting the cancellations.
Last week’s House bill effectively renders moot many of the law’s incentives. Advocacy groups decried the potential impact that could have on the industry after theThe California Department of Fish and Wildlife tried to reunite the cub with his mother after campers found him. They returned the youngster to the wild overnight, but took him in when she didn’t appear. The emaciated 3-pound (1.3-kg) baby bear was then transported to the Ramona wildlife center.
The cub has quadrupled in size since then.Biologists hope they can return him to the wilderness next year, provided he can learn to find food, seek shelter and avoid people.
The cub is the fourth to enter rehab care in California in the past five years. He could be paired with a buddy if another one turns up, because that would reduce the risk of them imprinting on humans.In this photo provided by San Diego Humane Society, an employee wears camouflage while feeding a bear cub, which was found alone in Los Padres National Forest, at the San Diego Human Society Ramona Wildlife Center on Monday, April 14, 2025, in Ramona, Calif. (San Diego Humane Society via AP)