** Boeing is exploring asset sales in a bid to boost its fragile finances by shedding its non-core or underperforming units, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The planemaker last week reached an agreement to offload a small defense unit that makes surveillance equipment for the U.S. military, the paper reported, citing people familiar with the deal.
** Duke Energy turns to helicopters to deliver power poles and other infrastructure to rebuild the power grid in isolated areas after Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina.
** Recent leaks at an Illinois carbon storage well have raised concerns among some residents and environmental advocates as the Biden administration ramps up funding for what it sees as a key climate tool.
** Ameren has faced no significant consequences for operating a Missouri coal plant for more than a decade after the U.S. EPA sued it for Clean Air Act violations, reported E&E News.
** A South Dakota rural advocacy group submits a petition calling on Gov. Kristi Noem to reconsider her decision rejecting $69 million in federal funding for home energy efficiency rebates.
St. Paul, Minnesota breaks ground on the state’s largest networked geothermal system that will heat and cool buildings as part of a 112-acre redevelopment of a former golf course.
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** Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed on Sunday for the fourth time in 48 hours, marking a major setback in the government’s efforts to quickly restore power to exhausted residents already suffering from severe shortages of food, medicine, and fuel.
** A former Russian oil executive has been found dead after apparently falling from the window of his Moscow flat. Mikhail Rogachev was found outside his 10th-story apartment in Moscow with injuries consistent with a fall, Russian media reported. Russian news agencies said authorities were treating his death as a suicide.
** China will account for less than half of global steel consumption in 2024 for the first time in six years, according to the World Steel Association, as the decline in the country’s real estate sector pummels demand for the metal.
** A sustainable future takes collaboration. That’s what 32 of the world’s leading utility companies are doing, partnering to invest in clean energy and infrastructure while serving 327 million customers around the world. According to Renewable Energy Magazine, the utility companies announced at New York Climate Change Week that they will invest more than $116 billion annually to “scale renewables portfolios by 2.6 times by 2030.”
