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Could Nations Agree on a Global Plastics Treaty This Year?   [By Emma Bryce] For the past two years, nations have been trying to craft a legally binding global treaty that will tackle plastic pollution. The fast-tracked negotiation process is due to end with this month’s meeting, which is taking place in Busan, South Korea, from…

Terminal Trouble: Is the EU Building Too Many Regasification Terminals?   When was the last time you made a great decision in the middle of a panic? In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Sanctions passed against Russia by European governments included a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. Russian pipeline gas, which had…

Trump’s Election Gives Hope to Opponents of Chagos Islands Deal In the wake of President Trump’s decisive re-election, a political campaign is gathering steam on both sides of the Atlantic to pressure the United Kingdom’s Labour government into abandoning its recent agreement to hand sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Diego Garcia is one of 60…

Huntington Ingalls Names New President for Newport News Shipbuilding   Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced the retirement of longtime Newport News Shipbuilding president Jennifer Boykin, who has run the nation’s premier nuclear-vessel shipyard since 2017. She will be replaced by Kari Wilkinson, the longtime head of HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division, effective January 1. “I have…

Video: Salvors Raise Wreck of Burned Superyacht off Sardinia   The sunken superyacht Atina has been raised from the bottom off Sardinia and will be removed for scrapping, according to Italy’s coast guard.  On August 10, the 154-foot superyacht Atina caught fire off the coast of Olbia, a luxury destination on the northeastern shores of…