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Bill drafted to support southern Land Bridge
Bloomberg News and Post Reporters, Published on 22/03/2025
» The Ministry of Transport has unveiled draft legislation to create a special Southern Economic Zone that would pave the way for a multibillion-dollar Land Bridge transport project linking the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand.
Japan starts ammonia co-firing trial at coal power station
Reuters, Published on 01/04/2024
» TOKYO - Japan's top power generator, JERA, said on Monday it has begun a demonstration of co-firing 20% of ammonia with coal at its Hekinan thermal power station in central Japan, in what it said is the world's first trial using a large amount of the gas at a major commercial plant.
Oil giants plan to bury massive amounts of CO2 in Malaysia, Indonesia
Bloomberg, Published on 28/03/2024
» Just as they first ventured to do over a century ago, the world’s largest oil companies are staking claims far from home — this time to swallow, rather than spew, planet-warming industrial emissions.
Swiss, Thai groups close first sale of Paris Agreement carbon offsets
Reuters, Published on 08/01/2024
» A Thai electric bus operator said on Monday it had sold the first carbon offsets under a new system created by the Paris Agreement to a Swiss fossil fuel group, a major landmark for putting into action the eight-year-old United Nations climate accord.
KLM denies ‘greenwashing’ in court
Reuters, Published on 19/12/2023
» AMSTERDAM - KLM defended itself against “greenwashing” allegations in court on Tuesday, asking judges to rule against an environmental group that has argued the Dutch airline’s “Fly Responsibly” advertising campaign was misleading.
Cambodia scraps coal power project to build gas-fired plant, import LNG
Reuters, Published on 29/11/2023
» SINGAPORE - Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a US$1.5 billion 700 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power project in a protected reserve along the southwestern coast and will build an 800 MW natural-gas fired plant instead, according to its energy minister.
Srettha pitches land bridge project in US
Bloomberg News and Online Reporters, Published on 14/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is pitching the government’s trillion-baht southern land bridge project to US investors as a way to significantly cut shipping times between the Indian and Pacific oceans by bypassing the Strait of Malacca.
Ethereum upgrade slashes energy use by 99%
Reuters and Bloomberg, Published on 15/09/2022
» A major software upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain aimed at drastically reducing its energy usage has been completed, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum inventor and co-founder said on Thursday.
California says new cars must be zero emission by 2035
AFP, Published on 26/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America's most populous state must be zero emission from 2035, in what was billed as a nation-leading step to slash the pollutants that cause global warming.
California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES: All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the biggest economy in the United States drives a nationwide fossil fuel evolution.