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Environment

Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals | Fossil fuels

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement…

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Politics

‘Unfair banking’ and ‘damaging’ financial rules harming UK’s small firms, MPs warn | Small business

Unfair banking practices and “damaging” financial regulators are harming small businesses and putting innovation and growth at risk, parliament’s Treasury…

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Real Estate

Court Grants Preliminary Approval Of Settlements With Firms In Gibson

The court has granted plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary approval of settlements proffered by Compass, The Real Brokerage, Realty One Group,…

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Environment

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ | Climate crisis

A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars…

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Environment

Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution | Plastics

Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution, with five responsible for a…

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Environment

Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price | Oil and gas companies

For $5m, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company weigh in on faculty research activities. Or, for $100,000, a…

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Environment

‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws | Water

Whistleblowers say UK water companies are knowingly failing to treat legally required amounts of sewage, and that some treatment works…

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Politics

Clustering of AI firms in south and east of England will foil levelling up – report | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are “profoundly skewed” towards the “golden triangle” of Oxford, Cambridge and…

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Politics

Tobacco firms lobbying MPs to derail smoking phase-out, charity warns | Smoking

Tobacco firms are lobbying MPs and peers in an effort to derail Rishi Sunak’s flagship policy to phase out smoking,…

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Politics

‘As transparent as a brick wall’: British firms fight back against ‘Business Improvement Districts’ | Small business

As councils tighten their purse strings and strip services back to the basics amid a worsening local authority financial crisis,…

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