Energy in America

A Rhode Island company is going to build a wind farm that will be 10 times the size of the nation's first offshore wind farm.

An Illinois environmental group is suing the owner of a shuttered power plant where contaminants from old coal ash ponds are seeping into a river popular with kayakers and canoers.

An Iowa-based utility is proposing a massive wind turbine project that would be the nation's first investor-owned electric utility to generate all of its customer demand from wind energy.

A North Dakota judge has dismissed a complaint that regulators filed against a North Carolina-based company that handled security for the developer of the heavily protested Dakota Access oil pipeline.

An international economic watchdog says threatened new trade barriers and rising oil prices could hurt long-awaited global economic growth.

Stocks have skidded in Asia as Italy heads for another round of elections that investors worry could become a referendum on whether to stay in the euro bloc.

Global stocks are falling Tuesday morning as political uncertainty in Italy sends European stocks sharply lower.

Brazilian truckers frustrated by rising fuel prices are striking for a ninth day in several states, though sporadic deliveries of gasoline and goods are starting to ease a shutdown that has led to widespread shortages and disturbances.

The Houston-based oil field services giant has been a leader in the U.S. shale boom.

Canada's government says it will buy controversial Trans Mountain pipeline to ensure it gets built.

Asian shares were mostly lower Tuesday, tracking losses in Europe, where investor confidence was sapped by political uncertainty in Italy.

At a West Virginia rally on tax cuts, President Donald Trump veered off on a subject that likely puzzled most of his audience.

Lava from the Kilauea volcano oozed over two wells at a geothermal power plant on Hawaii's Big Island, but county officials say the flow has stopped.

Thousands of Brazilian truckers are continuing a strike over fuel prices that has led to shortages and disruptions across Latin America's largest nation.

Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Monday as investors digested the latest developments regarding North Korea and Italian politics.

A strike by Brazilian truckers that has caused shortages at gas stations and supermarkets across Latin America's biggest country has entered a seventh day with no immediate solution in sight.

Bus and metro services in several Brazilian cities have been reduced and several flights have been cancelled as a truckers' strike enters its sixth day.

Energy companies and oil prices are sinking again Friday morning on reports OPEC countries plan to produce more oil soon.

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