Energy in America

Crews are making progress restoring power to those in Hurricane Ida's path, with nearly 155,000 Louisiana residents able to turn their lights on once again.

Louisiana’s electricity provider restored power to most New Orleans households by Monday morning, as a heat wave continued to threaten elderly residents and other vulnerable people.

This marks the most expensive Labor Day weekend gas prices since 2014, although some areas will hit consumers' wallets harder than others.

French energy giant TotalEnergies SE plans to invest $27 billion in Iraq in a 25-year deal, according to people familiar with the matter, boosting its position in the country at a time when other Western companies have been rethinking their exposure.

Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have identified the source as a one-foot diameter pipeline displaced from a trench on the ocean floor and sheared in half by Hurricane Ida.

Energy companies have worked to assess the extent of damage in the post-Ida Gulf landscape as over a million residents remain without power.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that cleanup crews are responding to a sizable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida.

When Jenny Hess visited her sister in Healdsburg, Calif., in May of 2020 to get out of New York City during Covid, she was entranced by the area’s temperate weather, natural beauty and sophisticated food and wine culture.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday authorized the country's emergency oil reserve to loan 1.5 million barrels of crude to an Exxon Mobil refinery in Louisiana to relieve fuel disruptions in Hurricane Ida's wake.

The remnants of what was once Tropical Storm Ida slammed the Northeast with power outages, life-threatening flooding, tornadoes and heavy rains overnight Wednesday.

John Catsimatidis, the owner of New York City supermarket chain Gristedes Foods and CEO of United Refining Company, blasted the Biden administration's energy policies on Wednesday calling them an “attack on America” and warned that those policy decisions will lead to higher prices.

Power was restored for some customers in Eastern New Orleans on Wednesday as residents struggled to find food and clean drinking water amidst sweltering heat.

The Biden administration plans to make federal lands cheaper to access for solar and wind power developers after the clean power industry argued in a lobbying push this year that lease rates and fees are too high to draw investment and could torpedo the president's climate change agenda.

Louisiana is experiencing major gas shortages in several areas, leading to long lines at the gas stations that still have fuel.

Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive, late-summer heat.

The Federal Trade Commission has set its sights on the oil and gas industry as the Biden administration seeks to battle rising fuel prices.

Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium from geothermal brine, salty water that has been overlooked and pumped back underground since the region’s first geothermal plant opened in 1982.