Energy in America

A report prepared for Dominion Energy found it would be far cheaper and quicker to close the company's largest Virginia coal ash ponds by leaving them in place and putting a cover over them rather than recycling the ash or moving it to lined landfills.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor says a cousin of former Venezuelan oil czar Rafael Ramirez has been arrested in an investigation into a series of accounts in an Andorran bank suspected of being used to launder about $1.6 billion.

A small Montana company that landed and lost a $300 million contract to restore Puerto Rico's hurricane-shattered electric grid is suing a subcontractor for allegedly interfering with tens of millions of dollars in payments.

A Massachusetts company is abandoning its long-stalled plans for a wind farm off Cape Cod.

___ Top Republican claims enough votes for Senate OK of tax bill WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1.4 trillion tax bill written by Republicans is headed toward passage after some last-minute wrangling.

Regulators reach settlement with Mississippi Power Co. on how much customers should pay for a troubled $7.5B power plant.

State utilities regulators on Thursday approved a nearly $37 million per year rate hike for Eversource's Massachusetts electric customers that was much smaller than requested, but still drew the ire of the state attorney general.

The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. went up by six this week to 929.

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday, after an overnight recovery of technology stocks on Wall Street.

The oil and gas division of Copenhagen-based conglomerate AP Moller-Maersk says it will invest 21 billion kroner ($3.4 billion) together with British-Dutch oil multinational Shell, among others, in Denmark's largest gas field in the North Sea.

The world's biggest lithium-ion battery has plugged into an Australian state grid, an official said Friday, easily delivering on Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk's 100-day guarantee.

The Latest on Senate Republicans' tax overhaul bill (all times local): 11:01 a.m.

U.S. oil refineries that are unable to sell a dirty fuel waste product at home are exporting vast quantities of it to India instead.

U.S. stocks were moving broadly higher in early trading Thursday as technology companies rebounded after a steep sell-off a day earlier.

A commission that oversees water quality for the watershed that supplies Philadelphia and half of New York City with drinking water is taking another step toward permanently banning natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

___ NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street finished November with a broad rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its biggest gain since March and pushed it past the 24,000 mark for the first time.

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday rejected a request from a San Diego utility to force customers to shoulder $379 million in costs from three deadly blazes ignited by power lines in 2007.

Venezuelan authorities say they've arrested two top former officials in a widening corruption probe into the state-run oil industry.

Federal officials say a Netherlands-based maker of equipment for offshore oil drilling will pay $238 million to settle charges of paying bribes to officials in five oil-producing countries.