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  • usFILE PHOTO: A bulldozer moves coal at the Murray Energy Corporation port facility in Powhatan Point, Ohio

    Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States

    By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...

  • The massive Big John dragline works to reshape the rocky landscape in some of the last sections to be mined for coal at the Hobet site in Boone County

    Why US Coal Producers Are Having a Very Good Year

    By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC

    U.S. coal exports are rising this year, giving the fossil-fuel friendly Trump administration reason to cheer, but analysts believe the good times won't last. The surge in exports doesn't herald a...

  • Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves during a pro-government rally with workers of state-run oil company PDVSA, in Barcelona

    The Crisis in Venezuela Could Send Oil Prices Soaring

    By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.com

    Venezuela’s deteriorating crisis is “going to be the biggest geopolitical story to watch in the oil markets," according to Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets. The economic, political and security...

  • FILE PHOTO: A sign is painted on a parking space for electric cars inside a car park in Hong Kong

    The Battery Problem That Could Slow the Electric Car Revolution

    By Zandi Shabalala, Reuters

    Producers of processed lithium - an essential element for batteries used in electric cars - are agreeing long-term contracts with their customers to fund the investments needed to address a looming...

  • A prototype of the Tesla Model 3 is on display in front of the factory during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker in Sparks, Nevada, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/James Glover II

    The Great Battery Battle: Tesla Sparks an Arms Race in Energy Storage

    By Ryan Browne, CNBC

    Elon Musk's car company Tesla appears to be leading the "arms race" for lithium-ion batteries — for now. Musk recently announced plans to build the world's biggest lithium-ion battery storage project...

  • Oil Prices Flirt with $100 per Barrel

    By Chris Kahn, Bankrate

    The price of oil is closing in on $100 per barrel for the first time since summer. Prices have soared since October as two of the market's biggest fears — an unraveling of the 17-nation eurozone and...

  • Tax Credits Fueling Green Energy Could Vanish

    By Karen Hube, The Fiscal Times

    Federal energy tax incentives have played a major role in jump-starting the green energy movement. But the measures are controversial, and there is a goo chance they will be scaled back or eliminated...

  • U.S. Delays Massive Oil Pipeline from Canada

    By MATTHEW DALY

    The Obama administration said Thursday it is delaying approval of a massive oil pipeline until it can study new potential routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska, an action that...

  • Oil, Gas Drilling to Expand

    By DINA CAPPIELLO, TOM KRISHER

    The Obama administration will cautiously open up more areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast to oil and gas drilling.

  • Another Botched Energy Dept. Project?

    By STEVEN MUFSON, The Washington Post

    The Energy Department has come under criticism from its inspector general for the handling of an electric transmission line project that received $152 million of federal financing, but which the IG...