Column: Killing rush hour with help from green bonds

Assuming full economic recovery, a likely persistence of some hybrid work-from-home arrangement for some employees is perhaps one of the big durable disruptions. All very well, but less passengers means less fares. The green bond market alone is almost a trillion dollars and growing, with $347 billion alone identifying clean transportation as a theme. …Read […]

COLUMN-Killing rush hour with help from green bonds: Mike Dolan

Assuming full economic recovery, a likely persistence of some hybrid work-from-home arrangement for some employees is perhaps one of the big durable disruptions. All very well, but less passengers means less fares. The green bond market alone is almost a trillion dollars and growing, with $347 billion alone identifying clean transportation as a theme. …Read […]

Eight men indicted in hazing death at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University

Eight men, between 18 and 23 years old, face various charges including felony involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide and assault. On March 4, Pi Kappa Alpha hosted an off-campus event to initiate new members into the fraternity. After Foltz drank the bottle, fraternity members took him home to his apartment where he was later found unresponsive […]

Chile studies ‘green card’ to incentivize coronavirus inoculation

Chile began vaccinating in December, inoculating health workers, teachers, civil servants, journalists, and age groups progressively – at present, people in their 40s. But health officials have repeatedly warned that young, healthy adults have been slower to turn out than the elderly, potentially imperiling its goal of vaccinating 80% of its target population, 15 million […]

EXCLUSIVE Government, industry push bitcoin regulation to fight ransomware scourge

In a report on Thursday, the panel of experts is expected to call for far more aggressive tracking of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Ransomware gangs collected almost $350 million last year, up threefold from 2019, two members of the task force wrote this week. “There’s a lot more that can be done to constrain the […]

Analysis: Can the Rhine’s white gold power Germany’s green e-car race?

A geothermal power station of German power supplier EnBW Energie Baden Wuerttemberg AG, where a pilot facility for lithium extraction will be built, is pictured in Bruchsal, Germany, April 23, 2021. “If you look at Vulcan’s project development plan, it might be argued to be rather novel. Even investments in conventional lithium projects over the […]