US and International News

April 17, 2017

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An oil well leaking natural gas on Alaska’s North Slope was successfully plugged by pumping saltwater into the well, according to private and government responders. The state Department on Environmental Conservation on Monday said the well operated by BP Exp… Read More ➝

April 17, 2017

DETROIT — Hydrogen fuel cell cars could one day challenge electric cars in the race for pollution-free roads — but only if more stations are built to fuel them. Honda, Toyota and Hyundai have leased a few hundred fuel cell vehicles over the past three years, and expect to lease… Read More ➝

April 13, 2017

SAO PAULO — Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht paid $40 million to President Michel Temer’s party and another party to ensure a contract with the state oil company, according to testimony from a former Odebrecht executive. Marcio Faria’s accusation came in plea bargai… Read More ➝

April 13, 2017

PARIS — The International Energy Agency expects growth in the global demand for crude oil to slow for a second consecutive year in 2017. The Paris-based agency expects growth of 1.3 million barrels a day this year, compared with 1.4 million barrels previously forecast, due to stalled… Read More ➝

April 12, 2017

PORTAGE, Ind. — A spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana that sent wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a Lake Michigan tributary was apparently caused by a pipe failure but testing has found none of that toxic substance in the lake, the company and federa… Read More ➝

April 12, 2017

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge is allowing the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to keep secret some but not all pipeline information that the company believes could be useful to vandals and terrorists. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a ruling dated Friday that… Read More ➝

April 11, 2017

NEW YORK — You didn’t think those super-low gas prices would last forever, did you? The U.S. government says a rebound in oil prices means drivers will be paying more at the pump this summer than last year. But that will still be a bargain compared to just a few years ago. … Read More ➝

April 10, 2017

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The owner of a pipeline spewing natural gas in Alaska’s Cook Inlet says dive crews have located the leak. The Hilcorp Alaska LLC pipeline has leaked hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of processed natural gas since mid-December. The leak was spotted from th… Read More ➝

April 10, 2017

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — An environmental group is appealing the approval of a hotly contested natural gas pipeline through the ecologically sensitive New Jersey Pinelands region by the state agency created to protect the area. The Sierra Club filed an appeal Monday of a Feb. 24 decisio… Read More ➝

April 7, 2017

TRENTON, N.J. — The environmental impacts of a proposed roughly 120-mile (193-kilometre), $1.2 billion natural gas pipeline from northeastern Pennsylvania to New Jersey would be “effectively limited,” federal regulators said Friday. Read More ➝