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Dirtier trains and less newsprint is the latest energy crisis fallout

Crunch situation threatens vegetable greenhouses, hits metal supply; Europe and Asia are already reeling from soaring gas and power prices

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Nicholas Larkin | Bloomberg
Europe’s deepening energy crisis is sending severe — and some surprising — ripples across everything from transporting goods by train to glasshouses growing vegetables.
 
Headlines have focused on governments trying to tackle soaring gas and power prices rocking energy retailers and crucial carbon-dioxide supplies. But there’s a growing list of other far-reaching impacts, such as threats to the paper that news is printed on, production cuts for metals and rising building costs.
 
The energy squeeze is hitting China and India too, causing blackouts and prompting moves to secure extra coal to get households through winter. And industries and

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