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Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks the University of Iowa's Sylvia Secchi for an update on the biofuel industry.

Chicago is suing Glock, saying its guns are too easy to convert to illegal automatic weapons. It's the latest example of Democratic jurisdictions pressuring gunmakers to change products and marketing.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bloomberg reporter Jonathan Randles about a legal battle that's left over 8 million comic books sitting in a Mississippi warehouse.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Karr Ingham, a petroleum economist in attendance at CERAWeek, an annual conference for the energy industry in Houston, Texas.

The proposed Asheville facility would combine workforce training, industrial research and product testing as regional leaders seek to expand western North Carolina’s manufacturing industry.

The U.S. has now imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will match those tariffs "dollar for dollar" starting Sept. 8.

The Swedish home goods store is giving products nicknames based on what personal problems they solve. A pair of scissors is listed under, "My son plays too much computer games."

The freeze in oil output is aimed at stopping the dramatic slide in oil prices, but it's not a production cut as some had hoped.

Users of the product would wear what looked like near-empty glasses frames, and see digital information beamed from their smartphones.

Washington may soon become the first state to restrict a certain kind of chemicals found in products from food wrappers to fire-fighting foams.

A market research firm finds that South Korea consumes more than 20 percent of the world's male skincare products. A popular South Korean catchphrase is: Appearance is power.

The sportswear company was forced to recall the pants two months ago for being too sheer. Lululemon blamed the see-through blunder on a style change and production problems.

CNBC reports the costume drama, set in England, will soon launch a line of fashion, furniture, wallpaper and beauty products.

In taking on GE appliances, Electrolux will more than double its home appliance sales in the U.S. As part of the deal, Electrolux will continue using the GE appliances brand for that product line.

Less than a week after CVS announced it would no longer sell tobacco products, its stock is on the rise.

Every year for the past 19 years, the Actors Theater of ouisville (Loo-UH-vull) mounts its Humana (Hyu-MAN-ah) Festival of New American lays. During the months of March and April, playwrights have the opportunity to xperience the entire production process of their scripts, as well as experiment ith critic and audience reaction to their works in progress. Naomi Lewin LOO-in) of member station W-K-Y-U spoke to those involved in this year's event, s well as to some who have taken part since the beginning.

Daniel talks with researcher Ferris Harvey who co-authored a labor department report on child labor in India and Pakistan. This past week, a 12 year old boy who was a vocal opponent to child labor in Pakistan, was murdered. Harvey says millions of children from Bangladesh to Brazil are forced to make many of the products, such as find rugs and carpets, that Americans have come to cherish. And though it's unclear who killed the young Iqbal Masih, Harvey says murders of child labor opponents or agitators aren't uncommon in many parts of the world.

2: Writer ERIK LARSEN. When Larsen's son had his first birthday, he received a corporate birthday card. Larsen became interested in how companies know the intimate details of our lives. His new book, "The Naked Consumer" (Henry Holt & Co), is an investigation into direct marketing techniques--into how corporations collect the vast network of data they use to market their products. Larson is a national correspondent for The Wall STreet Journal. REBROADCAST. Originally aired 12/23/92.

WEEKEND EDITION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH WILLIAM SEIDMAN (SEED-man), PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION AND CO-CHAIR OF THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON PRODUCTIVITY UNDER PRESIDENT REAGAN, AND NORA LUSTIG, SENIOR FELLOW IN THE FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE AND PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO IN MEXICO CITY (1975-91), ABOUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE MEXICAN ECONOMY IN LIGHT OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ACTION THIS WEEK, BYPASSING CONGRESS, TO RESCUE THE PESO.