Energy in America

Southern California Gas Company announces nearly $120M settlement for huge gas blowout at Los Angeles storage field.

The Latest on a settlement in litigation over a leak at a Southern California gas storage facility (all times local): 9:55 a.m.

Oil prices were sharply lower.

Shares were mixed in Asia on Wednesday after the U.S. followed through with plans to put higher tariffs on $16 billion in Chinese exports.

U.S. stocks are rising again Tuesday as strong company earnings lift the market.

A conservation group claims a Trump administration committee reviewing royalty payments on fossil fuels from public lands is stacked with industry supporters who conduct some meetings in secret.

___ Tesla CEO drops latest bombshell with $72B buyout proposal SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is considering leading a buyout of the electric car maker in a stunning move that would end the maverick company's eight-year history trading on the stock market.

A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition.

General Electric says it's laying off 200 hourly workers at its upstate New York plant that produces steam turbines for the company's power unit.

A North Dakota judge will not reopen a lawsuit filed against a private security firm hired by the Dakota Access oil pipeline developer during protests over the $3.8 billion project.

U.S. stocks are slightly higher Monday morning as companies including Tyson Foods and Berkshire Hathaway are rising after their second-quarter reports.

___ PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi latest high-profile female CEO to exit PURCHASE, N.Y.

A federal appeals court has thrown out two key permits for the Atlantic Coast pipeline.

Italian police say at least 56 people have been injured and a bridge has partially collapsed following a major explosion on a highway near the northern city of Bologna.

The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m.

Asian stocks were mostly higher Monday, despite a new Chinese threat of tariff hikes on U.S. goods, after Washington reported solid employment numbers.

Iran has acquired five new airplanes a day before the U.S. begins restoring sanctions suspended under the 2015 nuclear deal.

As Europe struggles through a major heatwave, the French energy company EDF says it has halted a fourth nuclear reactor, this time one at the country's oldest nuclear plant at Fessenheim in eastern France.

A Russian helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday in Siberia, killing all 18 people aboard, mostly oil workers, authorities said.