Energy in America

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.

The International Monetary Fund says political uncertainty and volatile oil prices are weighing heavily on economic growth in the Middle East this year.

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

Libya's National Oil Corporation says monthly oil revenues increased by 20% to more than $1.5 billion in March, after forces loyal to a military commander captured an oil field from another militia that had closed it for three months.

Officials in rebel-held eastern Ukraine say the death toll from a coal mine explosion is up to 17.

Soon after taking office, Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced renovation plans for the governor's mansion.

Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to pay a $1.05 million penalty to settle alleged federal water pollution violations from an oil pipeline break into Montana's Yellowstone River, according to court documents filed Friday.

A government report showing solid economic growth and a mixed bag of corporate earnings sent U.S. stocks sideways in early trading Friday on Wall Street.

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Exxon Mobil Corp. shares slipped in premarket trading Friday after the company posted disappointing results.

The president also sought to alleviate concerns about the global oil supply.

The Latest on China's Belt and Road infrastructure building conference.