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US airspace recovers as budget shutdown ends
US airspace recovers as budget shutdown ends
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday that US air travel is recovering after the disruptions caused by the more than month-long government funding shutdown. Flight traffic limits had been set in place as a consequence of the record-long US budget shutdown, which began on October 1 and ended on Wednesday.

Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs
Fossil fuel lobbyists out in force at Amazon climate talks: NGOs
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Lobbyists tied to the fossil fuel industry have turned up in strength at the UN climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, an NGO coalition said Friday, warning that their presence undermines the process. "Yet three decades and 30 COPs later, more than 1,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the climate talks as if they belong here," Bonbon said in a statement.