Energy
Africa wants more homegrown solar to boost self-reliance, but China’s shadow remains
Africa's largest economies are accelerating plans to build more domestic solar manufacturing capacity, a shift industry analysts say reflects both industrial ambition and growing unease over dependence on imports from China that dominate the global market.
Judge orders DOD to end blockade of wind energy projects
A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday that forced the Defense Department to resume processing applications for wind energy projects.
New laws amid public resistance could curb Virginia’s data center boom
More restrictive legislation could soon curb Virginia's data center boom, as residents push back on increased noise and utility bills.
Trump sees progress on deal with Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz
President Trump says the U.S. and Iran are having "very good discussions," raising hopes for a deal on Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemen’s Houthis strike Saudi-flagged oil tanker in Red Sea
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for a missile strike on a Saudi-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea.
Strait talk: U.S. and regional partners see progress toward reopening Hormuz choke point
U.S. and Middle East officials said Tuesday that they were zeroing in on a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a potential return to normalcy that cheered oil investors and sent Wall Street to record highs.
Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds
A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort.
Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk to seek relief from crippling blackouts and summer heat
Alexey Rios Garcia awoke not to his bed in Cuba's capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana's famous seaside boulevard.
Trump accuses Iranian leaders of duplicity over peace negotiations
President Trump on Monday accused Tehran of being "duplicitous" and said peace negotiations were underway through mediators, whether Iranian officials wanted to admit it or not.
Iran says no talks with U.S. expected despite Trump’s assurances
Iran said Monday it is not in talks with the U.S. over control of the Strait of Hormuz, even as President Trump insists that final negotiations could begin as soon as this afternoon.
U.S. faces new pressure to build weapons without China’s rare-earth magnets
A giant American flag hanging on the wall of a warehouse in New Hampshire hints at the national importance of the elements bound inside the mining waste stored in 1-ton bags. The company uses electrolysis to separate the key critical elements President Trump's administration desperately wants to produce domestically from the powder left behind at traditional mines.
IRGC says it struck two tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that were escorted by U.S. military
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday said its forces had struck two oil tankers attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, forcing several other ships to turn around in the process.
Major oil companies reap massive profits as U.S. and Iran fighting drives energy prices higher
American oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the U.S. impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.
Federal government to turn a Kentucky uranium plant into an AI data center and gas power complex
The U.S. Department of Energy is harnessing the artificial intelligence boom in its bid to convert another Cold War-era uranium enrichment site, tapping private equity to fund a $100 billion data center complex that will include its own new natural gas and battery storage power plant in Kentucky.
Drone strikes on Egyptian port end Cairo’s exemption from Iran war
Egyptian officials said Thursday a drone attack one day earlier caused a fire aboard two vessels -- a U.S.-owned storage facility and a Greek tanker -- at the Mediterranean port of Damietta, confirming that the war between the U.S. and Iran has reached the one Arab state that had managed to stay on the sidelines.
Iran condemns U.S.-Saudi attacks on Iraq as war expands further
Iran on Wednesday sharply criticized the joint U.S.-Saudi airstrikes against its allied militias in Iraq.
Senate advances Russia sanctions bill championed by late Sen. Lindsey Graham
Senators capped off a day of tributes to their late colleague Lindsey Graham by advancing a sanctions bill he spent his final week of life negotiating.
Drivers endure overnight gas lines as a war-driven fuel shortage grips Iraq’s Kurdish region
Drivers in Iraq's semiautonomous northern Kurdish region waited in line for hours, some overnight, to buy gasoline in recent days as a fuel crisis gripped the main city, Irbil.
As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators seek to eliminate a longstanding radiation safety rule
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world.
Trump praises four companies for reaching milestone in rebuilding U.S. nuclear energy
President Trump is hailing four companies for meeting his July Fourth deadline to usher in a "nuclear renaissance" in the U.S.
