Politics Can the market save the planet? FedEx is the latest brand-name firm to say it’s trying. FedEx aims at becoming carbon neutral by 2040. It will invest $2 billion to start buying electric vehicles for its fleet of 180,000 vehicles and it will donate $100 million to the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.
Newsletter How FedEx plans to become carbon neutral by 2040 The shipping giant plans to fully electrify its delivery trucks. The planes are a harder problem.
Politics www.nytimes.com A race to become the Tesla of delivery trucks and vans Investors are betting that small companies like Workhorse will help popularize electric commercial vehicles. And Tesla aims to extend its reach.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
