CHICAGO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - West Virginia's environmental
regulator sued Alpha Natural Resources Inc's former management
on allegations of fraud on Wednesday, saying top executives
should be held accountable for an unusual $100 million funding
gap that has emerged just three months after the U.S. coal
producer exited bankruptcy.
* Graphic on Paris Agreement: http://tmsnrt.rs/2fTjA1w
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The earth is on track for its
warmest year on record after October temperatures equaled the
third-warmest for the month ever, a U.S. government agency said
on Thursday.
MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Almost 200 nations
reaffirmed backing on Thursday for a 2015 global deal to fight
climate change at talks overshadowed by worries that U.S.
President elect Donald Trump will pull out of the agreement.
MARRAKESH, Morocco, Nov 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect
Donald Trump's threat of pulling the United States out of a
global agreement to curb climate change could place the United
States in a tiny club with just one other nation - Nicaragua.
ABUJA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Nigeria has reached a deal to pay
$5.1 billion in unpaid bills to oil majors including Royal Dutch
Shell and Exxon Mobil, the minister of state
for oil said on Thursday.
Many comments made during European Utility Week in Barcelona this week would make a gas producer’s blood run cold. Ross McCracken explains.
LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Britain plans to curb health
damaging air pollution with emissions standards for small-scale
power plants used to generate back-up electricity at short
notice and to stem the rising use of diesel generators.
TORONTO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index gained
on Thursday in a broad rally led by heavyweight resource and
financial stocks, as crude prices rose and the country's largest
oil and gas company forecast higher production and lower costs
in 2017.
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