Energy in America

NYC under blackout threat amid heat wave

New York City residents have been put on high alert to conserve energy and do so quickly as an ongoing heat wave threatens the Big Apple with blackouts.

Northwest heat wave deaths rise

About a dozen deaths in Washington and Oregon may be tied to an intense heat wave that brought scorching temperatures to the Northwest and caused one power utility to impose rolling blackouts amid heavy demand.

Supreme Court rules New Jersey can’t block natural-gas pipeline

The Supreme Court on Tuesday removed a hurdle to the construction of a natural-gas pipeline through Pennsylvania and New Jersey, ruling the pipeline developer could invoke the power of the federal government to take state property needed for the project.

Oil, gas exec blasts Line 3 pipeline attack by left

Mike Sommers, American Petroleum Institute president and CEO, reacts to environmental and tribal groups protesting the construction project on the Line 3 pipeline, saying, 'I don’t know why anybody would want to shut down this important pipeline.'