** Southern California Edison cut off electricity Sunday to 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend community, an outage that it says is indefinite because the shifting ground threatens utility poles and raises the risk of fires in the city. Another 200 homes were expected to lose it Monday night.
** Vice President Kamala Harris plans to say that US Steel should remain domestically owned during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh on Monday, a campaign official said, lending her voice to a dispute over prospective Japanese ownership of the iconic American brand.
** Washington’s trucking industry pushes back on a state program aimed at replacing diesel trucks with zero-emission vehicles, saying the timeline is unrealistic.
** Production is delayed until 2027 at an Indiana electric vehicle battery plant jointly run by GM and Samsung as EV sales slow and the companies finalize contract details.
** ConocoPhillips announced that its board of directors has elected Ms. Nelda J. Connors to serve as a board member. Connors has more than 25 years of experience in the industrial and manufacturing industries. In 2011, she founded Pine Grove Holdings, LLC, where she currently serves as chair and chief executive officer, overseeing investments in small- and mid-sized businesses with a high engineering component.
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** The United States has seized Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic after determining that its acquisition was in violation of US sanctions, among other criminal issues. The US flew the aircraft to Florida on Monday, according to two US officials. The plane, a Dassault Falcon 900EX, was purchased from a company in Florida, the Justice Department said, and was illegally exported in April 2023 from the United States to Venezuela through the Caribbean.
** Volkswagen is weighing whether to close factories in Germany for the first time in its 87-year history as it moves to deepen cost cuts amid rising competition from China’s electric vehicle makers.
** One of the North Sea’s biggest oil field developments is in jeopardy after developers put the project on hold following a crackdown by Britain’s Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. NEO Energy on Monday announced a slowdown of investment in various UK schemes, including the large Buchan Horst redevelopment, 93 miles off the coast of Aberdeen.
** An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted an oil tanker in the Red Sea on Monday, authorities said, as a second ship nearby also came under fire. Both attacks were near where crews hope to salvage a tanker loaded with oil and still ablaze after another assault by the group.
** China said on Tuesday it plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada, after Ottawa moved to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, lifting prices of domestic rapeseed oil futures to a one-month peak.