(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Andy Home LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - It's a tough time to be a lithium producer as the light metal sinks under the weight of excess supply. Lithium hydroxide prices have collapsed by 90% from their 2022 peak and show no signs of recovery. Multiple producers...

(Changes headline to 'curbs'; in paragraph 10 removes reference to new system) By Jarrett Renshaw, Ernest Scheyder and Jeff Mason (Reuters) - Alarm over China's stranglehold on critical minerals grew on Tuesday as global automakers joined their U.S. counterparts to complain that restrictions by China on exports of rare earth alloys, mixtures and magnets could cause production delays and outages...

(Reuters) -Energy companies representing technologies that provide baseload, or stable and consistent power, on Tuesday urged U.S. Senate leadership to preserve clean energy tax credits that were effectively gutted by a Republican bill passed last month by the House of Representatives. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Republicans including U.S. President Donald Trump have criticized clean energy tax credits for incentivizing intermittent renewable...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...