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David McHugh

Reporter with the Associated Press
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What Russia's invasion of Ukraine means for world energy bills

The world is already facing high energy prices and a supply crunch that has hit consumers with high utility bills and pain at the gasoline pump.
News | February 25th 2022

G-20 leaders endorse global corporate minimum tax

Leaders of the world's biggest economies on Saturday, October 30, 2021, endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations, a linchpin of new international tax rules aimed at blunting the edge of fiscal paradises amid skyrocketing profits of some multinational businesses.
News, Politics | November 1st 2021

G-20 opens with demonstrations and COVID vaccination demands

The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses on Saturday, October 30, 2021, took part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 economic recovery and the global minimum corporate tax rate on the agenda.
Race to a Safer World
News, Politics | October 30th 2021

Energy agency urges bigger global effort to cut GHG emissions

The International Energy Agency warned new investment in clean energy was needed to “jolt the energy system onto a new set of rails.”
Race to a Safer World
News | October 13th 2021

German car manufacturers fined $1B over emission collusion in EU

The European Union handed down $1 billion in fines to four major German car manufacturers on Thursday, July 8, 2021, saying they colluded to limit the development and rollout of car emission-control systems.
Race to a Safer World
News | July 8th 2021

Ford announces plans to go all electric in Europe by 2030

Ford is vowing to convert its entire passenger vehicle lineup in Europe to electric power by 2030 in just the latest sign of the seismic technological changes sweeping the auto industry.
News, Energy | February 17th 2021
Porsche Mission E, Volkswagen, Frankfurt Auto Show IAA, Frankfurt, Germany,

Race is on to set up Europe's electric car charging network

Charging an electric car away from home can be an exercise in uncertainty — hunting for that one lonely station at the back of a rest-area parking lot and hoping it's working.
News, Politics | May 14th 2018
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a news conference during the G20 finance ministers meeting in Baden-Baden, southern Germany, March 17, 2017.

Top economies yield to US, drop no-protectionism pledge

The world's top economic powers dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism amid pushback from the Trump administration, which wants trade to more clearly benefit American companies and workers.
News, US News, Politics | March 19th 2017

Volkswagen CEO apologized in person to Obama over scandal

News, US News | April 28th 2016

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