US environment agency could end reporting of greenhouse gas emissions

The mandatory program, which required 8,000 facilities to report their release, will be ended to reduce ‘bureaucratic red tape’

The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions – an effort the agency said was burdensome to business, but which leaves the public without transparency around the environmental impact of those sources.

The agency said mandatory collection of GHG emissions data was unnecessary because it is “not directly related to a potential regulation and has no material impact on improving human health and the environment”.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/environment-greenhouse-gas-reporting-end

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After years living quietly in Florida, Shah of Iran’s alleged ‘chief torturer’ must face accusations in court

Parviz Sabeti crafted a low-profile life for his family – but now he faces a $225m lawsuit over atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere

Neighbors in the upscale Florida community of Windermere know them as Peter and Nancy, the seemingly friendly retired couple they wave to on morning walks, and who always appear to enjoy visits from their two high-flying grown daughters, one a respected professor of science at Harvard University.

Yet behind the high walls of their $3.6m lakefront mansion lies a darker, more closely guarded reality: “Peter” is actually Parviz Sabeti, the alleged head of secret police and chief torturer of the former Shah of Iran’s pre-revolutionary government, now facing a $225m lawsuit in Florida for atrocities committed in prisons in Tehran and elsewhere.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/parviz-sabeti-shah-iran-lawsuit

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Oxford Union condemns president-elect’s reported comments on Charlie Kirk shooting

Current leadership ‘unequivocally’ rejects George Abaraonye’s remarks and says it ‘opposes political violence’

The Oxford Union has “unequivocally” condemned comments apparently made by its president-elect about the fatal shooting of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk in the US.

Kirk, 31, was killed at a Utah Valley University show on Wednesday in what authorities have called a political assassination.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/11/oxford-union-condemns-president-elects-reported-comments-on-charlie-kirk-shooting

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US drugmaker Merck scraps £1bn London research centre and cuts 125 science jobs

New blow to UK’s key life science sector as industry body says country is losing ground on investment and research

The US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and is laying off 125 scientists in the capital this year, in a big blow to the UK’s important life science sector.

Keir Starmer’s government has described life sciences as “one of the crown jewels of the UK economy” and the previous Conservative government had vowed to turn the country into a “global science and technology superpower” by 2030.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/10/us-drugmaker-merck-scraps-1bn-london-research-centre-and-cuts-125-science-jobs