Joe Biden wants federal fleet to go all-electric

There are some 645,000 vehicles in the federal fleet. They encompass roughly 200,000 passenger vehicles, 78,517 heavy duty trucks, 47,369 vans, 847 ambulances and three limousines. Each year, federal vehicles are driven about 4.5 billion miles, using almost 400 million gallons of gasoline and spewing more than 7 billion pounds of planet-warming greenhouse gases. Now […]

Oman wealth fund’s latest revamp focuses on tourism, real estate

Oman’s $17 billion wealth fund plans to restructure its tourism and real estate investments in the latest shift by the $17 billion sovereign investor. The Oman Investment Authority will transfer a shareholding company, a tourism development project and resorts to the Omran Tourism Development Co., also known as Omran Group, the wealth fund said in […]

Britain to apply to join Asia-Pacific free trade bloc

London: Britain will apply to join a massive 11-nation free-trade bloc of Asia-Pacific countries, it announced Saturday, weeks after leaving the European single market with its departure from the EU. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will formally request Monday for Britain to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a market representing […]