Energy

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the company's climate initiative Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Environment

Amazon Makes 'Climate Pledge' As Workers Plan Walkout

4:58pm September 19, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

Amazon's plans include being carbon-neutral by 2040 and buying 100,000 electric delivery vans. It faced outcry from workers, hundreds of whom planned to join the Global Climate Strike on Friday.

California Pushes Back On Trump Administration Over Emissions Standards

3:49pm September 18, 2019

The Trump administration is rescinding California's authority to regulate vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. State leaders are vowing to fight the move.

Economy

Locked And Loaded: The U.S., Saudi Arabia and Iran

3:27pm September 17, 2019

Houthi rebels in Yemen initially claimed responsibility for attacks on oil in Saudi Arabia, but U.S. officials say they know who the real "culprit" is.

Democratic Presidential Candidates Speak At Historic Galivants Ferry Stump

Foresight 2020: Senator Amy Klobuchar

2:23pm September 17, 2019

The Midwestern Democrat is leaning heavily into pragmatism ahead of the primary.

Rideshare Drivers, Activists Rally At Uber HQ In Support Of CA Assembly Bill 5

The State Of American Labor

1:28pm September 16, 2019

What are the challenges workers face today, and what challenges are waiting in the wings?

This satellite image shows smoke rising from Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia.

World News

Iran Denies It Is Behind Drone Attacks On Oil Plants In Saudi Arabia

11:31pm September 15, 2019

by Shannon Van Sant

Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of launching an "unprecedented attack on the world's energy supply."

Smoke fills the sky at the Abqaiq oil processing facility on Saturday in Saudi Arabia.

Houthi Drone Strikes Disrupt Almost Half Of Saudi Oil Exports

5:23pm September 14, 2019

by Alexander Tuerk

The attacks on oil facilities by the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels sent large plumes of smoke into the air, the trails visible from space, and impacted an estimated production of 5 million barrels a day.

T. Boone Pickens founded the company that became Mesa Petroleum and later began a hedge fund focused on energy investments. He died Wednesday at age 91.

National

T. Boone Pickens, Iconic Oil Tycoon, Dead At 91

6:54pm September 11, 2019

by Avie Schneider

The legendary energy executive, whose name symbolized big oil, died Wednesday at age 91. He founded the company that became Mesa Petroleum and later began a hedge fund focused on energy investments.

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Rob Van Vleet secures a wind turbine blade on to an oversize truck at the Kimball Wind Farm in southwest Nebraska.

National

Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy

8:31pm September 10, 2019

by Christina Stella

While wind energy is marketed as the future's green energy solution, turbines last only about 20 years, and disposing of their behemoth fiberglass blades is both complicated and costly.

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A Rough Terrain Container Handler, or RTCH, moves a shipping container full of about 40,000 pounds of wood chips to a nearby railcar.

Chip-And-Ship Forest Clearing May Help Prevent Wildfire Disasters

7:56am September 08, 2019

by Ryan Heinsius

Large-scale forest thinning in northern Arizona to prevent wildfires is behind schedule. But a new program is taking low-value logs and shipping them across the Pacific to markets in Asia.