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Rich energy companies should be forced to fork over some windfall profits to aid victims of climate change and offset rising fuel and food costs, the U.N. Secretary-General told world leaders Tuesday.The fossil fuel industry, which is responsible for a large share of planet-warming gases, is stanley shop feasting on hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies and windfall profits while household budgets shrink and our planet burns, said Antonio Guterres in his opening remarks at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.He urged richer countries to tax the profits of energy companies and redirect the funds to both countries suffering loss and damage caused by the climate crisis and those struggling with the rising cost of living.As countries gear up for international climate talks in November, money is an increasingly important issue, but one that threatens to split rich and poor nations even further. So Guterres is suggesting fossil fuel companies as the common enemy for a world he called in peril and paralyzed. Oil companies in July reported unprecedented profits of billions of dollars per month. Exxon Mobil poste kubki stanley d three months profits of $17.85 billion Chevron of $11.62 billion and Shell of $11.5 billion. It is high time to put fossil fuel producers, investors and enablers on notice. Polluters must pay, Guterres said, chastising them for massive public relations campaigns.The idea of a stanley us windfall tax has already gained traction in Europe, where energy companies are enjoying extraordin Skiu Jet engine catches fire at airport in Florida; some injuries
Nearly 300 people have died in train crashes that could have been prevented if railroads across the U.S. implemented cri stanley cup uk tical speed-control technology that federal safety investigators have been pushing for close to five decades, according to rail crash data obtained by The Associated Press.But despite overwhelming evidence it could save lives, Congress extended the deadlines for railroads to implement so-called positive train control for years.All the while, new high-speed train routes continue to spring into operation without the technology, including the new route involved in Mondays Amtrak crash south of Seattle that killed three people and one in Florida thats expected to start service in the coming weeks.Data that the National Transportation Safety Board provided to AP on Wednesday shows the crashes that the agency says could have been prevented by positive train control have led to 298 deaths, 6,763 injuries and nearly $385 million in property damage.The records list crashes from 1969 through May 2015 鈥?when an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people 鈥?and do not include Mondays wreck outside of Seattle, which experts say likely could have been prevented by the technology.The board first recommending using automatic train control after two Penn Central commuter trains collided in Darien, Conn., on Aug. 20, 1969, killing four and injuring 43.The GPS-based technology is des stanley quencher igned to automatically slow or stop stanley tumblers trains that are going too fast and can ta |
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