Energy in America

The Latest on North Dakota's reaction to a Washington state bill targeting Bakken oil patch crude (all times local): 6 p.m. North Dakota intends to sue Washington if that state's governor signs legislation requiring oil shipped by rail to have more of its volatile gases removed.

Federal officials cancelled without explanation all upcoming meetings of an advisory panel that had been created by the Trump administration to make it easier to extract fossil fuels from publicly leased land and offshore sites.

The Latest on President Donald Trump's meeting with top Democrats (all times local): 10:35 a.m.

Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is financing a bid by Occidental Petroleum for Anadarko, potentially upending Chevron's $33 billion offer for the energy company.

The utility company blamed for September's natural gas explosions in Massachusetts has settled a negligence lawsuit from a family injured in the disaster.

A Russian oil company has asked state security services to investigate a small private company accused of pushing contaminated oil through an export pipeline to Belarus.

President Trump has done wonders for the economy with his tax cuts and light regulatory touch. But steel tariffs are one step back.

In exchange, Berkshire Hathaway will receive 100,000 shares of cumulative perpetual preferred stock with a value of $100,000 per share.

Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street hit a new high and Chinese factory activity grew in April but below the previous month's pace.

Energy producer BP says first quarter earnings fell 9% amid lower oil prices.

U.S. stocks followed a record-setting week by edging slightly higher in early trading on Wall Street Monday.

Anadarko is resurrecting buyout talks with Occidental, setting up a bidding war with Chevron which has offered $33 billion for the energy company.

The Latest on PG&E's bankruptcy proceedings (all times local): 5:10 p.m. California regulators are recommending adoption of Pacific Gas & Electric's safety plan aimed at reducing wildfires in the state.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a new ban on drilling for oil and gas off the New York coast.

A western South Dakota sheriff is seeking to be dismissed from a lawsuit challenging new state laws that target disruptive demonstrations by anti-oil pipeline activists.

Anadarko believes the Occidental offer could be a "superior proposal."

When Alfred Brownell arrived in a remote Liberian village, the surrounding tropical rainforest had been leveled by bulldozers.

Plans are underway in Appalachia to create two underground facilities to store ethane, a byproduct of natural gas drilling seen as integral to revitalizing a region still struggling from the loss of industrial and manufacturing jobs decades ago.

Asian stock markets were mixed on Monday as investors looked ahead to U.S.-Chinese trade talks and the Federal Reserve's update on its U.S. interest rate outlook.

Greenpeace says four of its members have boarded an oil rig belonging to Norway's largest oil and gas company off the northernmost part of the country to protest drilling in the pristine Arctic by the state-owned company.