Energy in America

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.

U.S. stocks are reversing course Tuesday morning after sharp losses in the first few minutes of trading, raising hopes of a halt to a global sell-off in the stock market.

From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation's most prized natural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas, coal, grazing for livestock, habitat for wildlife, hunting ranges, fishing streams and hiking trails.

Hopis and Navajos who work at a coal mine near the Arizona-Utah border said Tuesday their family lives and earning power will suffer greatly if the power plant fed by the mine is shuttered as planned.

___ Dow turns 567 point loss into 567 point gain as stocks rally NEW YORK (AP) — After a plunge at the open and huge swings higher and lower, stocks finish with sharp gains Tuesday as technology companies, retailers and industrial firms power higher.

Years of contention and threatened electric rate increases ended Tuesday as utility regulators approved a settlement declaring how much Mississippi Power Co. customers should pay for their share of a troubled $7.5 billion power plant.