Energy in America

A week after New Hampshire regulators soundly rejected a $1.6 billion hydropower project, Massachusetts officials are demanding to know whether Northern Pass still is a viable option for delivering clean energy to their state by 2020.

Pennsylvania regulators are fining Sunoco more than $12 million for problems with a massive natural gas pipeline project, but letting work resume under a consent agreement.

The Latest on an agreement that lets Sunoco Pipeline resume construction on a major natural gas pipeline across Pennsylvania (all times local): 2 p.m. Sunoco Pipeline says it has agreed to a fine and will make other changes under a deal with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to avoid litigation and resume construction of a major pipeline project.

One of the four American Indian tribes still fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in court says it's being left out as federal officials work to comply with a judge's order to determine the pipeline's impact on tribal interests.

Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday, though investors appeared skittish after this week's financial turmoil and overnight losses on Wall Street.

Cyprus' energy minister says exploratory drilling off the island's southern shore has shown indications of a potentially sizeable gas deposit.

California will block the transportation through its state of petroleum from new offshore oil rigs, officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a move meant to hobble the Trump administration’s effort to vastly expand drilling in U.S. federal waters.

U.S. stocks are opening higher Wednesday as trading stabilizes following three days of tumult.

California commissions that oversee coastal lands and water pushed the Trump administration Wednesday to leave the state out of plans to expand offshore drilling, warning the state would block pipelines to get oil back to land.

U.S. officials don't have to provide details about proposed shipments of extremely radioactive spent commercial nuclear fuel to the country's top government nuclear research laboratory in Idaho, a federal court has ruled.

The number of illegal taps drilled into state-owned pipelines by fuel thieves in Mexico grew by more than 50 percent in 2017, with an average of about 28 illegal taps found every day.

___ Stocks rally, wobble, then end lower as turbulence continues NEW YORK (AP) — US stock indexes finish mostly lower after a morning rally faded away.

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

The past week's stomach-churning stock market losses were ignited by a sudden and contagious fear of surging inflation and higher interest rates.

Asian shares were mixed Wednesday as a rebound from a sell-off the day before lost steam.

The Trump administration’s goal is to protect and promote domestic manufacturing, though some power players in the sector argue the tariff will have the exact opposite effect.

Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal headed outdoors to Saudi Arabia's terracotta-colored sand dunes over the weekend, after being interrogated, investigated and detained for nearly three months in the kingdom's extraordinary anti-corruption campaign.

It took only minutes for Hurricane Maria to kill power in the Puerto Rican town of Coamo, cracking wooden poles, snapping power lines and hurling transformers to the ground.

Canada's oil-rich province of Alberta is banning wine imports from neighboring British Columbia over a dispute about a proposed pipeline.