Investors push Glencore to scrap spin-off of heavily polluting coal division | Glencore
Glencore has backed away from plans to spin off its coal business after shareholders urged the company to keep the highly profitable but polluting division. The FTSE 100 company said shareholders overwhelmingly supported keeping the coal business alive rather than plans to list it as a separate company on the New York Stock Exchange. More […]
Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy | Child benefits
Chancellor Keir Starmer is under further pressure to remove the cap on second child benefit after another member of his House of Commons described the policy as “heinous”. Writing in the Sunday Times, Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield said the cap, introduced in 2017 under then-treasury minister George Osborne, was “sinister and blatantly sexist” and was […]
Scrap Metal Thieves Cause Fatal Crashes, Millions in Infrastructure Damage in U.S. Cities
Metal theft in cities has reached new levels since the pandemic, with thousands of feet of streetlight wiring, hundreds of fire hydrants and even mausoleum plaques being stolen and resold for small amounts of money in cases across the country. This “brazen” crime poses a serious safety risk to city residents, where copper wires are […]