The company he built, Redwood Materials, is now the largest battery recycler in North America, and its using those recycled materials to manufacture complex battery components.

Petitions come amid growing alarm within the U.S. solar industry that a flood of cheap Chinese green energy technology exports are pushing down prices of solar panels and threatening efforts by the Biden administration to develop a domestic solar supply chain.

The worlds biggest producer shipped out nearly 26 million tons in the first quarter 28% more than a year earlier as the property crisis sapped domestic demand.

Nowadays, the costs that become part of a general average calculation would include a tally of the losses incurred to move the vessel to safety, including any damage to cargo.

Trade flows between a US-aligned group and another linked more closely to China have declined by about 12% more than trade between countries within the same bloc since Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Fallout from last weeks deadly bridge collapse, which indefinitely closed the nations 17th-largest port by total cargo tonnage and the busiest gateway for vehicles, is expected to be largely contained as neighboring facilities with spare capacity tweak their schedules.

The 984-foot ship was carrying containers from various countries, including China, Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam, to the US East Coast via the Panama Canal.

The looming shortage of ships capable of handling such turbines comes on the back of a tumultuous 2023 for the offshore wind industry.

While the United States and Europe are trying to revive renewable energy production and help companies fend off bankruptcy, China is racing far ahead.

In August, the world's largest rice exporter imposed a 20% duty on parboiled rice exports, following a ban on white rice exports to control domestic rice prices ahead of key state and national elections in 2024.

Iran-aligned Houthi missile and drone attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea have forced most container carriers to reroute vessels around Africa and sent spot rates soaring.

Vietnam's 5% broken rice was offered at $600 per metric ton, down from $625-$630 a week ago.

Grain transit through the Suez Canal hit a low of 2.6 million metric tons in February, down from 5.3 million tons in February 2023.