Economy of the United States

Plane skids off New York runway as winter storm hits US

An airliner skidded off a runway at New York's La Guardia airport on March 6 and slid to a halt just yards from frigid waters, as a snow storm battered the US coast from Texas to Boston.
      
Heavy snow was falling as Delta flight 1086 from Atlanta careered off the runway, plowed up an embankment and demolished a fence after its late-morning landing in hazardous conditions.

US Chevron Quits Shale Gas Operations in Romania

US energy giant Chevron is quitting shale gas exploration in Romania after prolonged anti-fracking protests.
Romania was the last shale gas project of Chevron in Europe.

Last month Chevron made clear that it was suspending shale gas exploration activities in Poland, while last year the company terminated this type of activity in Lithuania and Ukraine.

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