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Canada PM Trudeau visits Florida to consult with Trump amidst tariff threat

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Donald Trump's Florida resort on Friday to consult with the U.S. Presidentelect, days after Trump threatened to slap tariffs on Canadian imports over borderrelated issues. Trudeau, whose public itinerary did not note a scheduled see to Florida, was seen leaving a hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida, to go to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, according to a. Reuters witness. Trudeau's workplace and Trump's agents did not. immediately responded to ask for remark. Trump threatened on Monday to impose a 25% tariff on imports. from Canada and Mexico up until the nations clamped down on. drugs,...

Energy Markets

Ardent Mills flour mill near Tampa escapes significant damage from Milton, partially functional

Ardent Mills' Port Redwing flour mill near Tampa, Florida, did not sustain any major damage from Hurricane Milton and the facility was partially operating on Friday, stated Troy Anderson, the company's vice president of operations. Port Redwing and the majority of the Tampa Bay location is still without power. We have a generator that is powering electrical power to some locations of the plant and our facility is up and running at a decreased capability, Anderson said in a statement. The business is working to provide its customers, although area-wide power interruptions and limited fuel products have actually postured some...

Fossil Fuels

Marathon Petroleum's profit beats as volume increase offsets weak margins

Marathon Petroleum beat secondquarter profit price quotes, as higher volume of crude processing and a strong midstream sector assisted balance out low refining margins, sending the shares of the leading U.S. refiner up nearly 6%. It had the ability to process as much as 16% of the nation's total need at its 13 U.S. plants as of June even as fuel need took a hit from lower manufacturing activity and greater renewable fuel supply. In anticipation of greater need, U.S. refiners had ramped up processing capability to 93.5% in the second quarter, compared with 91% a year earlier, according to...

Energy Markets

Debby puts more than a foot of rain on coastal Georgia, South Carolina

Tropical Storm Debby inundated coastal Georgia and South Carolina with a deluge of rain that could flood Charleston, Savannah and other cities on Tuesday, a day after it slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast as a. typhoon. At least six individuals have actually passed away in Florida and Georgia in the. wake of the storm, which is expected to stick around over the. southeastern and mid-Atlantic coasts for days. Between 10 inches (25 cm) and 20 inches (51 cm) of rain was. expected to fall along parts of Georgia, South Carolina and. North Carolina through Friday and cause disastrous flooding,. the...

Energy Markets

Hurricane Debby takes goal at Florida's Gulf Coast, expected to slog up East Coast

Hurricane Debby is anticipated to slam into the Huge Bend region of Florida's Gulf Coast by midday on Monday before slowly crossing the state, causing possibly harmful storm rises and devastating flooding, the National Cyclone Center (NHC) stated. By 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT) on Sunday, the cyclone had continual winds of 75 miles per hour (120 kph), growing from a slow moving tropical storm that got strength from warm Gulf waters. It will likely simply get more powerful. The hurricane center forecast life-threatening conditions, including storm surges up to 10 feet (3 meters) in some locations. As it slowly...

Energy Markets

Coral reefs suffer fourth worldwide bleaching event, NOAA says

Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, a number of the world's vibrant coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what researchers stated on Monday amounted to the 4th international whitening occasion in the last three years. At least 54 nations and areas have actually experienced mass bleaching among their reefs since February 2023 as environment change warms the ocean's surface waters, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch, the world's leading coral reef monitoring body. Whitening is triggered by water temperature anomalies that trigger corals to expel the colorful algae living...

Electric Utilities

Hurricane Erick weakened over Mexico and left a trail of destruction in its wake

Hurricane Erick has weakened since it slammed into Mexico's south Pacific coast on Thursday as a major storm. It left behind a trail that included damaged businesses, wrecked vessels and flooded streets, as authorities warned about the dangers of heavy rain. Erick, a Category 3 Hurricane, made landfall in the area of Puerto Escondido at around 5:30 am local time (1130 GMT). Later, it was downgraded to Category 1, as the storm moved inland. The sustained winds slowed to 85 mph (137 km/h). In coastal towns, residents began clearing debris. Eduardo Gonzalez, a fisherman in Puerto Escondido, said that there...