Credit investors who lent $11 billion to Chesapeake Energy Corp. are starting to give up on the company, the second-biggest junk-debt issuer in the U.S. energy industry. [Bloomberg]

Mayor Bill de Blasio has set an ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from curtailing the city’s waster from home heating. [The NY Times]

A compromise struck by the United States, Japan and several other major nations will restrict export financing to build coal power plants overseas. [The Guardian]