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...Mayor Todd Gloria declared a state of emergency because of the flooding....
...While some analysts believe BP might appear vulnerable to a takeover given its lagging share price and the resignation of CEO Bernard Looney last month, Shell may not be best positioned to strike....
...Wet conditions have also affected large parts of the US west coast, with California, Oregon and Washington states hit by gales and high waves last week....
...The California-based driller is facing operational headaches at two of the company’s most important assets in Kazakhstan and the US — as well as investor concerns over its $53bn deal to buy Hess....
...The first official trailer for GTA VI launched this week, announcing a release window of 2025. The game will be set in the state of Leonida, a fictionalised Florida....
...Last month California — the state where Chevron is headquartered — sued the company and several of its competitors, claiming they deceived the public for decades about the environmental harm fossil fuels...
...The climate fallout has been particularly pronounced in the California-headquartered company’s own state, where a rift with lawmakers is set to take a chunk out of its earnings....
...The US offers the greatest potential at the closest distance to the earth’s surface, led by states such as Nevada and California....
...Exxon’s $60bn takeover of Pioneer Natural Resources in early October, followed two weeks later by Chevron’s $53bn deal for US operator Hess, has sparked predictions by analysts and dealmakers of more transactions...
...Large businesses with operations in California will need to disclose carbon emissions starting in 2026. For today, I have a report about BP and the Asian Renewable Energy Hub....
...Voters in Beverly Hills, the epitome of wealth and luxury, have narrowly rejected a proposal by Bernard Arnault’s LVMH to build an ultra-exclusive hotel on Rodeo Drive....
...said Dr Peter Gleick, a senior fellow of the Pacific Institute in California....
...Several big US insurers, including State Farm and The Hartford, have paused their underwriting of new home policies in the state of California....
...And Cape, of all things, builds fences for a living. Oliver Roeder is the FT’s US senior data journalist Cartography by Steven Bernard and Sam Learner....
...There is more room for M&A A flurry of mega oil and gas deals in quick succession tied off 2023: ExxonMobil-Pioneer Natural Resources at $60bn; Chevron-Hess at $53bn and Occidental-CrownRock at $12bn....
...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...Berkshire also detailed the continued fallout from the 2020 and 2022 wildfires that spread through California and Oregon....
...But in a case called Gustafson v....
...Western companies including Hess from the US and Austria’s OMV — which is part-owned by the state — are also sponsors of the event. Neither company responded to requests for comment....
...Cruise, the driverless car company owned by General Motors, paused its operations after California regulators barred its vehicles from the state’s roads following an accident in San Francisco....
...When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...Cartography by Steven Bernard...
...California’s Sun-Maid raisins....
...the West Coast, with the main focus across northern California....
...Tim Reeve, V&A deputy director, said that, while the museum had benefited from record-high domestic visitor numbers, a drop-off in international visitors had held back demand....
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