The U.S. nuclear power regulator voted last week to phase out agency-led ​security inspections at operating reactors, a move a safety advocate said ‌represents a failure in the government's responsibility to protect Americans from attacks on the plants. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to phase out "force-on-force" inspection programs, it said on its website on ​Friday, a program of mock commando-style attacks under control of the ​agency to probe potential weaknesses

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google ​have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over ‌the environmental impact of their projects. More than a dozen investors are cranking up the heat on companies ahead of annual shareholder meetings this spring, seeking more data on the tech giants' water usage and conservation efforts as they seek to expand their comp

China has issued guidance on Monday for its e-commerce sector that seeks to coordinate domestic ​development with international markets, a week after a delegation of European lawmakers visited ‌to discuss related challenges and competition. European Union lawmakers had pressed China about a surge of dangerous products that entered the bloc and limited access to the Chinese market in what was the first European parliamentary visit to the world's ​second-largest economy in ei