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Jeff Bezos: Amazon founder is world's new richest man
2017-07-27 16:52:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Five things you didn't know about the man whose wealth is valued at more than $90bn.
HMRC chasing 1.9bn tax from UK's richest people
2016-11-01 03:11:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
HMRC is chasing 1.9bn potentially owed in taxes by the UK's richest people, a report says.
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As World Burns, Richest Nations Can't Decide When to End Fossil Fuel Handouts
2016-07-02 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Common Dreams: The world's richest nations have failed to agree on a deadline to phase out fossil fuels subsidies--a commitment energy ministers made in 2009--stirring new fears over the impact of the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars that go toward keeping dirty energy afloat every year. Energy ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) met in Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss bringing those subsidies to a close after the Group of 7 (G7), the world's seven wealthiest economies, last month committed...
Richest nations fail to agree on deadline to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
2016-07-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Energy ministers from the worlds major economies have failed to reach agreement on a deadline to phase out hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies for fossil fuels -- subsidies that campaigners say are helping to propel the globe towards potentially devastating climate change. Ministers from the Group of 20 major economies met in Beijing on Wednesday and Thursday, but failed to reach agreement on a deadline, despite Chinese and American efforts and a joint appeal from 200 non-governmental...
Appalachian coal ash richest in rare earth elements
2016-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A study of the content of rare earth elements in U.S. coal ashes shows that coal mined from the Appalachian Mountains could be the proverbial golden goose for hard-to-find materials critical to clean energy and other emerging technologies. In the wake of a 2014 coal ash spill into North Carolina's Dan River from a ruptured Duke Energy drainage pipe, the question of what to do with the nation's aging retention ponds and future coal ash waste has been a highly contested topic. One particularly entrepreneurial...
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