Energy in America

Oil companies this week had the chance to bid on 900 tracts within Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve but offered bids on just seven.

A small Montana company that landed and lost a contract to restore Puerto Rico's hurricane-shattered electric grid has reached a settlement in a dispute over money it said it was owed for the work.

___ Senate Republicans barrel toward sweeping tax overhaul WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is barreling toward the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code in more than three decades.

U.S. stock indexes took another small step backward on Wednesday after a plunge in the price of oil dragged down shares of energy producers.

North Dakota health officials have concluded that a proposed oil refinery close to the picturesque Theodore Roosevelt National Park should comply with federal and state air pollution rules.

A vast international experiment designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of clean and cheap energy is halfway toward completion.

Asian share benchmarks skidded Wednesday, tracking Wall Street's overnight decline after another afternoon fizzle for stocks that left the Standard & Poor's 500 index with its third straight loss.

U.S. stock indexes held steady in Tuesday morning trading as some of the year's biggest winners picked themselves back up following recent stumbles.

___ Then and now: Why 1986 tax bill was everything 2017's isn't WASHINGTON (AP) — The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was the product of a year and a half of spirited deliberations.

Natural gas rates are going up for customers of Mississippi's largest gas utility.

A union official says a coal mine in northern West Virginia has been idled, with 260 workers losing their jobs, apparently because of adverse geological conditions and market issues.

Kuwait is preparing to host a crucial meeting of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council as half of its members are still boycotting fellow member-state Qatar.

Seven people arrested at a protest of a $3 billion pipeline being built to carry natural gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to Southern states intend to fight their charges at trial.

Turkmenistan's state-controlled gas company says the Central Asian nation will go to arbitration to settle a gas dispute with Iran.

A federal judge has ordered the Army Corps of Engineers and a pipeline developer to complete an oil spill response plan for a section of the Dakota Access pipeline beneath the Missouri River in North Dakota.

Oil operators in North Dakota will be required to provide more details to mineral owners about deductions taken from their royalty checks.

Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday after a lackluster session on Wall Street, where technology stocks tumbled.

Stocks rallied to records Monday on expectations that lower taxes will lead to even bigger profits for companies.

The tax bill approved by the U.S. Senate will open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, something Alaska's lawmakers have tried to do for decades.

Ecuador has agreed to pay $337 million to ConocoPhillips-subsidiary Burlington Resources five years after a ruling that the South American nation illegally expropriated valuable oil assets.