Energy in America

Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty that draws the first-ever maritime border between the neighbors, resolving years of bitter wrangling with a deal that carves up billions of dollars of oil and gas riches that lie beneath the Timor Sea.

___ GOP lawmakers, business groups pressure Trump on tariffs WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is calling on President Donald Trump to take a 'more surgical approach' to trade and back off his threat to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says his agency should be a partner with energy companies that seek to drill for oil and gas on public land.

China's government says it has asked for a temporary hold on a U.S. request for United Nations sanctions against ships accused of violating trade restrictions on North Korea while it studies what entities are involved.

The Trump administration's proposal to expand offshore drilling off the Pacific Northwest coast is drawing vocal opposition in a region where multimillion-dollar fossil fuel projects have been blocked in recent years.

South Sudan's state-owned oil company has been "captured by predatory elites" and is being used to fund the country's civil war, including a government-aligned militia accused of human rights abuses, according to two investigative organizations.

___ Trump's boasts aside, trade wars typically leave no victors WASHINGTON (AP) — Trade wars generate no medals, monuments or military parades.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has announced a spring trade mission to China that aims to build off existing relationships between the state and the Asian country.

U.S. stocks fell Monday and markets around the world wobbled as investors continue to question whether they can count on two of the main drivers that propelled markets to record heights: an expanding global economy and low interest rates.

America will surpass Russia, the current No. 1, by 2023, the International Energy Agency estimates.

A global energy watchdog says booming production in the United States will meet 80 percent global growth in demand for oil over the next five years.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline hit $2.53 a gallon, up a penny since Feb. 26.

Asian shares fell Monday as investors evaluated Beijing's annual growth forecast for the Chinese economy while the uncertain outcome of Italian elections weighed on sentiment.

Russia's state natural gas monopoly Gazprom says it's beginning efforts to end its contract to supply gas to Ukraine, raising concerns about downstream gas supply to European countries.

The average residential customer’s bill will drop by $31, or 3%, each year, the utility estimated.

Asian shares posted steep declines Friday, adding to global stock market losses after President Donald Trump vowed to impose stiff steel and aluminum tariffs, sparking fears of a trade war.

The Trump administration said Thursday it is rewriting Obama-era rules governing pollution from oil and gas operations and coal ash dumps, moves that opponents say will significantly weaken protections for human health and the environment.

As companies across America take a stand on guns after the Florida school massacre, Delta Air Lines withstood swift political retribution in its home state of Georgia for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association.

The Trump administration is rewriting Obama-era rules governing pollution from oil and gas operations and coal ash dumps, moves that opponents say will significantly weaken protections for human health and the environment.

Georgia lawmakers are expected to vote on a sweeping tax bill that no longer includes a proposed jet fuel tax break which had been in Republicans' crosshairs ever since Delta Air Lines severed ties with the National Rifle Association.