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Environmental Issues News 28 September 2025 - 15 October 2025

Viscofan Stock Plunges on US “Toxic Emissions” Allegations – Is a Rebound Coming?

Viscofan Stock Plunges on US “Toxic Emissions” Allegations – Is a Rebound Coming?

Recent Stock Performance and Investor Sentiment Viscofan’s stock declined sharply in mid-October 2025, reflecting a sudden drop in investor confidence. On Oct 14, shares slumped ~13% intraday – the steepest fall since 2018 – after a US-based news report accused Viscofan’s largest North American plant (Danville, IL) of uncontrolled “toxic” emissions cincodias.elpais.com cnmv.es. By Oct 15, VIS.MC traded around €50.7 marketscreener.com. This represented about a 5-day loss of –12.7% marketscreener.com and brought the 2025 decline near –17%. The sector and Spanish indices showed little special weakness, suggesting the drop was driven by company-specific fear and heavy selling pressure (likely from
Trilogy Metals (TMQ) Stock Soars After U.S. Govt Deal – Critical Minerals Boom Brewing?

US Government Buys Stake in Alaska Miner to Unlock Critical Minerals – Sparks “Copper Rush” Controversy

U.S. Stakes a Claim in Alaska’s Mineral Riches In an unprecedented step for U.S. industrial policy, the federal government announced it will become a shareholder in a private mining company to advance a domestic source of critical minerals. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed that the U.S. government is acquiring about 10% of Trilogy Metals Inc., a small Canadian firm, to help fund its mining projects in Alaska’s remote Ambler Mining District reuters.com. The deal – a $35.6 million investment – is meant to jump-start exploration of rich copper and cobalt deposits on U.S. soil. “The Department [of] War, the United States
UK Wind Power “Racket” Exposed: Octopus Energy Reveals £650m Wasted on Idle Turbines – Is Our Grid Broken?

UK Wind Power “Racket” Exposed: Octopus Energy Reveals £650m Wasted on Idle Turbines – Is Our Grid Broken?

Octopus’s campaign has thrust the curtailment problem into the spotlight. Greg Jackson bluntly told The Independent that wind farm owners (some of whom also run gas plants) “realise there is a bunch of generators…that won’t get to market because of grid congestion, so they pay them anyway, and then they find someone else to fill the gaps” the-independent.com. In other words, billpayers fund idle wind farms and pricey backup power – a situation Jackson labels “a racket” the-independent.com the-independent.com. He illustrated it like “building a factory where there [are] no roads and then being paid for what you might have
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