Stanley Reed

Traders are pondering whether the United States and its allies are finally getting serious about restricting Russian energy.

By STANLEY REEDAt the French port of Dunkirk, a mothballed oil refinery represents both the legacy and the future of the energy giant TotalEnergies.The French company shut down the refinery in 2010. Rather than abandon the site, the company is finding new uses for it.Earlier in the decade, it installed more than two dozen industrial-scale batteries on a strip alongside the rusting tanks and pipes. Some long-standing refinery employees now make the rounds at the battery farm, making sure the devi

The components used to assemble wind turbines are made by suppliers around the globe.

A lower court had ordered the company to cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030, but the oil giant argued that a single firm should not be hit with arbitrary pollution-reduction requirements.

Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.