https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:58:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:58:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142307

The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/big-tech-accused-of-ai-greenwashing/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:52:13 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141659

“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/not-just-oil-the-venezuela-invasion-is-about-preserving-the-petrodollar/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:26 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141662

In what the White House has described as the “largest deregulatory action in American history,” President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of United States efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/fast-fashion-why-changes-in-return-policies-dont-do-enough-to-address-environmental-damage/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/fast-fashion-why-changes-in-return-policies-dont-do-enough-to-address-environmental-damage/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:41:10 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138421

Online fashion retailer Asos recently introduced additional fees for customers who return lots of items, marking a significant shift in the fast fashion model that has relied on free, frictionless … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/fast-fashion-why-changes-in-return-policies-dont-do-enough-to-address-environmental-damage/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/ais-green-energy-goal-is-devastating-taiwans-coastal-villages/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/ais-green-energy-goal-is-devastating-taiwans-coastal-villages/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:35:49 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138420

The Taiwanese semiconductor industry’s power demand is forecast to grow eightfold by 2028. Rapid expansion of wind energy to support the demand is impacting the livelihoods of oyster farmers and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/ais-green-energy-goal-is-devastating-taiwans-coastal-villages/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/china-is-closing-in-on-us-technology-lead-despite-constraints-ai-researchers-say/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/china-is-closing-in-on-us-technology-lead-despite-constraints-ai-researchers-say/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:05:00 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137535

BEIJING, Jan 10 (Reuters) – China can narrow its technological gap with the U.S. driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/china-is-closing-in-on-us-technology-lead-despite-constraints-ai-researchers-say/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/#respond Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:03:21 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=137536

BRUSSELS (AP) — Italy on Friday gave crucial support to plans by the European Union to seal a huge free trade deal with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela that has been negotiated for over 25 … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/italy-backs-historic-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-after-25-years-of-negotiations/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:07:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136885

On December 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to sell natural gas to Egypt in what officials describe as the largest energy export agreement in … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/europes-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/europes-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:04:39 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136883

BRUSSELS — When cocoa farmer Leticia Yankey came to Brussels last October, she had a simple message for the EU: Think about the mess your simplification agenda is creating for companies and communities. It … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/europes-simplification-mess-frustrates-businesses/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-europes-new-carbon-tax-on-imported-goods-will-change-global-trade-and-our-shopping-habits/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-europes-new-carbon-tax-on-imported-goods-will-change-global-trade-and-our-shopping-habits/#respond Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:14:43 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=135696

For people living in the EU, the price of their next car, home renovation and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-europes-new-carbon-tax-on-imported-goods-will-change-global-trade-and-our-shopping-habits/feed/ 0