Energy in America

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has spiked 7 cents a gallon over the past two weeks, costing $2.97.

California voters' feelings about a gas tax increase and President Donald Trump will help determine whether Democrats retain, bolster or lose their supermajorities in the state Legislature.

Thousands of environmentalists are protesting the expansion of a coal mine in western Germany a day after a court blocked the felling of an endangered forest near the site.

Firefighters say a fire that sent thick, black smoke from a 7,000-gallon (26,500 liter) oil tank at an Oklahoma City power plant has burned out.

ExxonMobil will search for natural gas off the cost of Cyprus by the end of the year, a top executive said Friday, as Turkey renewed warnings against resource exploration in seas where it says it infringes on its rights and those of breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it will test seawater, marine sediment and fish around Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant this month.

Pakistani authorities say they are in talks with Saudi Arabia to launch several mega projects, including construction of an oil refinery at the country's southwestern Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea coast.

Puerto Rico's power company has announced a 15 percent reduction in electric bills as people struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria amid an economic crisis.

Rising interest rates send stocks skidding; tech plunges NEW YORK (AP) — Global stocks fell Thursday as interest rates in the U.S. continued to rise.

Shares fell Thursday in Asia despite a strong day on Wall Street that was spurred by encouraging signs on U.S. hiring and growth in the service sector.

A North Dakota judge has finalized his recent conclusion that state regulators don't have a say in the site of an $800 million oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park, potentially removing a roadblock to the project.

For decades, Alaska residents have shared in the state's oil wealth.

A federal judge's decision on whether a year's worth of additional study of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline adequately addresses American Indian concerns appears weeks if not months away.

___ GM, Honda team up to produce self-driving vehicle General Motors and Honda are teaming up on self-driving vehicle technology as big automakers and tech giants race to develop the next generation of personal transportation.

U.S. stocks are climbing Wednesday morning after a survey by payroll processor ADP showed strong hiring by private businesses in September.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended a prospective Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline as economically feasible and voiced hope that European Union nations will be able to resist U.S. pressure to thwart the project.

The Latest on an agreement to replace oil pipelines in a crucial Great Lakes channel (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Michigan officials and Enbridge have reached a deal on replacing 65-year-old twin oil pipelines that critics describe as a serious threat to the Great Lakes.

Russia and Saudi Arabia struck a private deal in December, Reuters reports.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's administration and Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge have agreed to replace twin 65-year-old crude oil pipes in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes with another that would run through a tunnel far below the lake bed, officials told The Associated Press.

A Virginia-based energy company has announced plans to build more than 40 wind turbines along Lake Ontario in upstate New York.