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President Donald Trump spent his first evening in office, to paraphrase Steve Bannon, flooding the zone with chits. Among the deluge of day one...
It is a measure of California’s range of natural dangers that the state’s Wildfire Fund is administered by the California Earthquake Authority....
If an oilfield out in the middle of the sea that was never going to be drilled gets banned by a lame-duck president, would anyone care? Congress...
Calpine Corp.’s buyout in 2018 symbolized the end of an era. Is it now heralding a renaissance? Calpine is said to be close to selling itself to...
President-elect Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, having previously likened it to a giant real estate deal. If so, he seems to have...
When Jaguar’s “copy nothing” brand reboot hit late last year, one self-styled car enthusiast replied on X: “What the actual hell is this.” Jaguar’s...
The energy transition sustained an electoral trauma as 2024 drew to a close. The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump promises...
Determined to prevent Democrats from picking winners in the auto market, President-elect Donald Trump looks set to counter by fostering losers. His...
To most of us, a power plant is a source of electricity. To Exxon Mobil Corp., it’s a machine that converts natural gas into money. And this is a...
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory understandably looms large over the future of US climate policy. Equally important, however, is the flip...
The gathering excitement about new nuclear plants powering artificial intelligence is tainted by a whiff of gas. Meta Platforms Inc. has just...
China is the handmaiden to the energy transition — and will continue to be so once an anti-transition president occupies the White House again next...
There is a certain mental model of the US energy system that envisions a giant valve hidden beneath the Resolute Desk. The notion that the...
There’s a crazy idea going around, fueled by one Elon Musk, that Tesla Inc., an electric vehicle maker, would be unscathed if Republicans ditch the...
President-elect Donald Trump is doing his part for the environment already, and in his home city to boot. Governor Kathy Hochul of New York is...
Detroit voted overwhelmingly for Vice President Kamala Harris, but investors in “Detroit” backed President-elect Donald Trump. Shares in General...
Nuclear power plants are designed to withstand a plane crash. We are now getting a live experiment in whether the nuclear sector is built of...
Tesla Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk will later this week attempt to re-recast the company as a futuristic master of artificial...
When Elon Musk hosted Tesla Inc.’s “autonomy day” in March 2019, he was crafting a narrative. When he takes the stage at Thursday’s...
Guys, you were so close. If it wasn’t for that last little bounce of Wall Street optimism on the last day of September, Tesla Inc.’s latest sales...
Among Hurricane Helene’s roster of disasters is a storm surge that deluged a retired nuclear power plant in Florida. While radioactive material...
Gold is what you buy when everything isn’t goldilocks. Inflation, deflation, war, pestilence — gold is a certain anxious state of mind made...
When the Three Mile Island nuclear plant became (in)famous in 1979 for a reactor accident, Microsoft Corp. was a baby, still a year away from a...
Jay Powell: Federal Reserve Chair, soft-landing pilot … car dealer extraordinaire? The Fed’s big bang cut to its target interest rate heralds...
The new thing in electricity is datacenters. The new new thing is … coal? Two companies you’ve probably never heard of have signed a deal that...
“Fracking” is an expletive in environmental circles. Yet the spirit of shale is creeping into a business with transformational potential for the...
The all-in view of Tesla Inc. was summed up in a line from a report this summer by one of the more all-in analysts covering the company: “The car...
Former President Donald Trump’s big economic speech on Thursday was low energy in more ways than one. Among other things, he intoned to the...
Labor Day weekend, marking the end of the US summer driving season, is typically the year’s last hurrah for gasoline producers. This year, the...
California is incredible, but making it livable, what with its droughts, floods, fault-lines and wildfires, has never been cheap. Climate change...
California wants some insurance against pump prices. But in proposing that oil companies there hold a minimum stockpile of fuels, the state is...
A few days before Senator JD Vance’s Wall Street Journal op-ed on energy policy and “net zero” dropped, his billionaire backer Peter Thiel was...
Earlier this year, around the time Nvidia Corp.’s market cap eclipsed that of the entire S&P 500 energy sector, I wrote about whether oil and gas...
The case of the missing Cybertruck bodes ill, and not just for the company making it. Lower-priced versions of Tesla Inc.’s angular behemoth have...
House Republicans’ doughty opposition to green spending has cracked in the face of a devious opponent: green spending. Speaker Mike Johnson just...
There’s trouble in America’s electric vehicle heartland, California. That much was evident when state officials this week announced quarterly EV...
Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint for a second Trump administration — notwithstanding the former president’s vaunted...
A fifth of Americans just saw their insurance premium jump 833%. Overnight. The folks earning the premiums, mostly electricity generators in this...
Graphite, the stuff in pencils, doesn’t typically feature in thrillers; that’s reserved for the likes of uranium and gold. So one doesn’t expect a...
Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump have a complicated relationship. Two years ago, Musk tweeted that Trump would be too old for a full...
Tesla Inc.’s latest results, released Tuesday evening, seem almost humdrum now that Chief Executive Elon Musk has finally unveiled the least...