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Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans.

By Eric Lipton

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Why Oil Companies Are Walking Back From Green Energy

As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar.

By Rebecca F. Elliott

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Exxon Chief to Trump: Don’t Withdraw From Paris Climate Deal

Darren Woods was one of only a few Western oil executives attending a global climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

By Rebecca F. Elliott

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Deal to Reopen Libya’s Central Bank Eases Fears of Fighting

A standoff over control of the bank had destabilized the country’s economy and raised the prospect of fresh fighting between Libya’s eastern and western factions.

By Vivian Yee and Islam Al-Atrash