** Boeing’s CEO is cutting private jet use for executives to reduce costs. The company directed executives to fly economy on commercial flights instead. Boeing is searching for ways to save money after a rough year.
** Tyson Foods on Monday announced to employees it would close its facility in Emporia, Kansas in February 2025. The plant has more than 800 employees. “After carefully considering our options and the impact of this difficult decision, Tyson Foods regrets to inform you it must permanently end all operations and permanently close its Emporia, Kansas facility,” Ernesto Sanchez, vice president operations, beef and pork, said in a letter to employees.
** California’s high-speed rail project is getting a lot of criticism, with people calling it a big example of government waste and inefficiency. Business owner and politician Vivek Ramaswamy is one of the people asking for federal funding to stop. He called the project a “wasteful vanity project” that has cost billions of taxpayer dollars with little to show.
** A hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck recently set a world record by traveling a remarkable 1,806 miles on a single fill. Clean energy brand Accelera announced the mind-blowing achievement of their H2Rescue prototype, a hydrogen fuel-cell electric truck designed for emergency response.
** The federal Bureau of Land Management halts new mining claims on 5,159 acres in western Utah while it considers the proposed 600 MW Star Range solar installation.
** Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning is named president of an environmental group after tightening rules on public land oil and gas drilling and coal leasing during the Biden administration.
** The Dakota Access Pipeline’s owner asks South Dakota regulators for 12 conditions that the Summit carbon pipeline developer should meet to receive a state permit following concerns about the project’s potential impact on the oil pipeline.
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** India is building its first-ever high-speed railway test track, adding further shape to the country’s massive 7 trillion rupee (nearly $83 billion) investment in track infrastructure over the next decade.
** Australia’s main grid is seeking powers to curb the amount of electricity supplied by the nation’s ubiquitous rooftop solar panels. The Australian Energy Market Operator wants nationwide backstop mechanisms to manage the daily flood of output from the systems, it said Monday.
** More than €3.3bn (£2.7bn) was wiped off the value of Stellantis after its boss quit abruptly amid struggles to make the shift to electric vehicles. Shares in Stellantis dropped by more than 8pc in both Paris and Milan, where it has a dual listing, on Monday after the carmaker said Carlos Tavares would step down as chief executive more than a year earlier than expected.
** British bill payers have spent an “absurd” £1bn to temporarily switch off wind turbines so far this year as the grid struggles to cope with their power. The amount of wind power “curtailed” in the first 11 months of 2024 stood at about 6.6 terawatt hours (TWh), according to official figures, up from 3.8 TWh in the whole of last year.