SENDAI, Japan, March 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When professional boxer and model Tomomi Takano heard that children in Japan's Fukushima prefecture were becoming unfit and overweight as the 2011 nuclear crisis there limited the time they could play outside, she decided to use her skills to help.
--Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist.
HOUSTON, March 26 (Reuters) - Motiva Enterprises said on Thursday that operations at its Convent and Norco, Louisiana, refineries will be integrated to take advantage of increased production of lower-cost U.S. shale oil.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has resigned weeks after lawmakers with oversight of his agency accused him of hostility toward his staff, a White House official said on Thursday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA on Thursday named Luciano Coutinho, the head of Brazil's state development bank BNDES, as its new chairman.
SINGAPORE/BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China is reducing coal use for power generation faster than expected as the use of cleaner-burning fuels and slowing economic growth drags thermal utilisation rates to a potential record low, implying imports and prices will fall further.
The US natural gas markets are transitioning to spring, and now the industry is wondering where the big demand drivers will be as the weather warms.
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