Energy in America

Oil markets have been supported this year by ongoing supply cuts.

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday as investors awaited further developments in trade talks between the U.S. and China.

Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday as investors awaited further developments in trade talks between the U.S. and China.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline is up 6 cents a gallon (3.8 liters) over the past two weeks, to $2.50.

The widow of a West Virginia coal miner who was among 29 men killed in the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion has settled a lawsuit against the federal government for $550,000.

As Enbridge prepared to move climate-damaging tar sands crude through a 40-year-old pipeline in eastern Canada in 2015, environmentalists and indigenous peoples including Vanessa Gray thought about what happened in Michigan just five years earlier: Another of the company's lines had burst, sending oil into a river in one of the largest spills in U.S. history.

American diplomats continue to target the Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA as part of the U.S.-led sanctions to cut off financial access from the Maduro's regime.

U.S. stocks fell Friday morning as signs piled up that the global economy is hitting the brakes, headlined by a surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Friday, leaving the benchmark S&P 500 index with its worst weekly showing since January and its eighth loss in the last nine days.

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So far oil demand has held up, especially in China, where imports of crude remain above 10 million barrels per day (bpd).

Investors also responded to worrying export data from China.

Shares tumbled Friday in Asia, led by sharp declines in Shanghai and Hong Kong, after China reported its exports plunged more than 20 percent in February from a year earlier.

U.S. stocks moved lower in morning trading, led by banks and technology companies, putting the market on track for its first losing week since January.

South Dakota is poised to approve laws aimed at potential protests against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, seeking to prevent disruptive demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline that cost neighboring North Dakota nearly $40 million and led to hundreds of arrests beginning in late 2016.

Unlike the Green New Deal, this clean-energy save-the-world initiative backed by real 'green' money -- from Bezos and Microsoft -- could become a reality.

'Solar is big in California and their economy is fine,' said Tom Werner.

U.S. sanctions against the oil industries of OPEC members Iran and Venezuela have also had an impact, traders said.