Industrials

Colorado residents seek to block major oil and gas project

Frustrated residents of a Denver suburb say state law is forcing them to participate in a major oil and gas drilling project against their wishes, so they launched legal challenges with potentially significant consequences for the industry.

Correction: Ethiopia Plane Crash Story

In a story March 11 about the grounding of Boeing 737 8 MAX aircraft by China, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the flight ban would begin at 9:00 a.m.

Companies decry 'valve turners' who shut down pipelines

As Enbridge prepared to move climate-damaging tar sands crude through a 40-year-old pipeline in eastern Canada in 2015, environmentalists and indigenous peoples including Vanessa Gray thought about what happened in Michigan just five years earlier: Another of the company's lines had burst, sending oil into a river in one of the largest spills in U.S. history.

Italy standoff over high-speed rail to France eases

Italy's coalition partners appear to have temporarily resolved a dispute over the high-speed rail line to France, with an agreement to let new contract bids go out on schedule but without any financial commitments.

South Dakota passes bills to discourage Keystone XL rioting

South Dakota is poised to approve laws aimed at potential protests against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, seeking to prevent disruptive demonstrations like those against the Dakota Access pipeline that cost neighboring North Dakota nearly $40 million and led to hundreds of arrests beginning in late 2016.