ENERGY

Apr 22 2026BUSINESS

Gas prices slip as warmth lingers and storage keeps growing

Natural gas prices nudged lower this week as warmer-than-usual air spread across much of the country. With fewer homes firing up furnaces and less demand from power plants, buyers have little reason to rush and bid up prices. At the same time, the nation’s storage tanks are already brimming, runnin

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Apr 22 2026BUSINESS

Building a Future While Breaking Old Rules

The push for cleaner energy isn’t waiting for politics to catch up. A recent court decision just cleared away some federal blocks slowing down solar and wind projects across the country. Meanwhile, big companies are making big moves in new directions. One coffee giant, known for its green mermaid lo

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Apr 21 2026ENVIRONMENT

Utah’s Quiet Energy Revolution

In a state known for coal and oil, Utah has quietly become a leader in clean power. Over the last 25 years, one advocate has watched coal’s share of electricity fall from nearly all to less than half. Today the state ranks sixteenth in solar, supplies enough wind and storage for a million homes, and

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Apr 21 2026POLITICS

Gas prices: Why official predictions keep changing

Officials keep giving different answers about when gas prices might drop. First they said weeks, then months, then maybe never before the election. Energy Secretary Chris Wright started with a confident \"weeks\" timeline in early March. By April, he called summer a \"very aggressive\" guess. Just d

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Apr 19 2026TECHNOLOGY

Alcoa’s Idle Smelter Finds New Life as Bitcoin Mining Hub

Alcoa, a major player in the aluminum industry, is close to selling its long‑abandoned Massena East smelter in upstate New York. The plant, which stopped operating in 2014 because of high energy bills and tough global competition, sits along the St. Lawrence River and is ready for a new purpose.

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Apr 19 2026FINANCE

Old factories get new life in the age of digital mining

Industrial buildings that once made metal now find new purpose feeding computers instead. In upstate New York, a shuttered aluminum plant along the St. Lawrence River could soon hum with activity again, not for smelting aluminum, but for minting digital coins. The facility has stayed dark since 2014

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Apr 18 2026ENVIRONMENT

Fast‑Track Clean Energy After Middle East Tensions

Colombia’s environment chief argues that the war in Iran shows how quick the world must move away from oil, gas and coal. She says that the uncertainty in global fuel supplies forces governments to hurry toward solar, wind and geothermal power. The comments come before a big meeting in Santa M

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Apr 18 2026POLITICS

Chevy’s Court Case Gets Surprise Support From Two Liberal Justices

Three courts, one big question. The Supreme Court looked at a fight that began in Louisiana over oil drilling in the 1970s. The state law stopped oil work without a special permit. In 2013, local parishes sued big companies for past drilling practices. They said the companies used bad methods and ha

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Apr 18 2026POLITICS

Greece and the U. S. : A Growing Partnership in Energy and Defense

For years, Greece has been quietly building stronger bonds with the United States, not through grand speeches or flashy announcements, but through steady actions. While many NATO nations often clash with Washington over defense spending and trade, Greece has taken a different path. Instead of waitin

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Apr 18 2026POLITICS

How Iran’s War Could Freeze Climate Aid for Poor Nations

A fresh battle in the Persian Gulf isn’t just shaking up oil markets—it’s threatening the fragile promises rich countries made to help poorer nations fight climate change. Every dollar spent on war is one less dollar earmarked for solar panels, flood barriers, and clean-energy grids in places that d

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