Energy in America

The natural gas pipeline in the United States is vast, sprawling across 2.5 million miles in a complex pressurized system that delivers a quarter of the energy consumed nationwide, according to the American Gas Association.

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More than half of gas stations in the Wilmington and Greenville areas of North Carolina were out of fuel Friday.

U.S. stocks are little changed Friday morning as banks climb but retailers and big-dividend stocks slide.

U.S. industrial production rose by a healthy 0.4 percent in August, boosted by gains in the production of autos, oil and natural gas.

Asian shares were mostly higher Friday, continuing their rally after gains on Wall Street and hopes that regional trade tensions may ease.

A Trump administration committee is meeting in Colorado to consider a change in the way energy companies calculate how much money they owe for extracting and selling publicly owned natural gas.

The Latest on royalties paid by U.S. energy firms for extracting gas from public land (all times local): 1:10 p.m. Environmentalists and other advocates are urging a Trump administration advisory committee to reject two proposed changes to oil and gas drilling on public land, saying they could short-change taxpayers and turn over too much power to the industry.

___ China says Washington asks to resume talks on tariff fight BEIJING (AP) — China's government says Washington has asked to resume negotiations on their worsening tariff dispute.

U.S. stocks are climbing Thursday morning after the Labor Department said inflation slowed a bit in August.

Media in Andorra say 29 people, including former Venezuelan officials, have been charged with allegedly laundering gains from a kickbacks-for-contracts scheme that plundered $2 billion from PDVSA — the state oil company of Venezuela — between 2007 and 2012.

The world's supply of oil hit a record last month, yet another sign of oil's dominance over the energy landscape.

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has restated the United States' opposition to a new Russia-Germany gas pipeline during talks in Moscow.

Police in full riot gear cleared a blockade Thursday as authorities prepared to move in and remove tree houses built by activists in an ancient forest in western Germany slated to be cleared next month to allow for coal strip mining.

Asian markets were mostly higher Thursday after a report that the U.S. proposed a new round of trade negotiations with China quelled fears that a dispute between the world's two largest economies was spiraling out of control.

The United States may have reclaimed the title of the world's biggest oil producer sooner than expected.

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