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News Articles: Energy

The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST is shown in Detroit on Jan. 5. General Motors is in a pilot program with Pacific Gas & Electric to use electric vehicles as a backup power source for homes.

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  • Business

GM plans to test using electric vehicles as a power backup for homes

General Motors and California's Pacific Gas & Electric are aiming to test the technology by this summer. Ford previously announced a similar feature on its electric F-150 Lightning pickup.

March 08, 2022
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By:
  • Rina Torchinsky
Protesters in Boston call for a ban on Russian oil at a rally for Ukraine on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Biden announces Russian oil import ban and warns gas prices could increase even more

President Biden described the move as a critical step to punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but said as a result, Americans should prepare for price hikes at the pump.

March 08, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Detrow and
  • Alana Wise
A Lukoil gas station sign is seen Friday in New York City's Brooklyn borough. Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, has called for an end to the war in Ukraine. The oil company is facing calls for boycotts.

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  • Politics

The White House says it's considering a range of options for Russian oil imports

The White House emphasized the importance of maintaining a steady global energy supply amid Russia's war on Ukraine.

March 04, 2022
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  • Alana Wise
Gas prices reach over $5 a gallon at a station in Los Angeles on Friday. Oil prices continue to surge after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with some analysts describing market conditions as verging on "panic."

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  • Energy

Oil prices surge as fears about Russian crude supplies intensify

The global benchmark topped $115 briefly on Wednesday, just days after it crossed the triple-digit mark for the first time in seven years.

March 02, 2022
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A closed Gazprom gasoline station is shown in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 9.

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  • Business

Major oil companies pull out of once-promising Russia

Announcements from Shell and BP will further hit Russia's tanking economy — and batter its image as a go-to place for oil and gas investments.

March 01, 2022
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  • Peter Granitz

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  • Energy

How a wrinkle in the oil futures market has clogged America's oil pump

The U.S. is still the largest producer of oil, but we're a long way from pumping what we were before the pandemic. Blame backwardation.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Paddy Hirsch
Workers install cryptocurrency mining computers inside a converted shipping container at the Compute North facility in Nebraska.

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  • World

How the U.S. benefits when China turns its back on Bitcoin

Until the middle of last year, most cryptocurrency mining took place in China. Then authorities pulled the plug. So Chinese bitcoin miners began moving their gear to U.S. towns like Kearney, Nebraska.

February 24, 2022
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  • John Ruwitch and
  • Emily Feng
Plant Vogtle

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  • Energy

State senator pitches lower-cost financing for Plant Vogtle expansion

Allowing Georgia Power to finance the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion and other large projects through ratepayer-backed bonds could save customers hundreds of millions of dollars, supporters told a state Senate committee Tuesday.

February 23, 2022
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  • Dave Williams
Gasoline prices are displayed at a Chevron gas station in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 18. Crude oil prices are surging toward $100 a barrel, raising the prospect of even higher gasoline prices.

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  • Business

Oil prices are surging toward $100 a barrel. Here's what that means for you

The threat of war between Russia and Ukraine is driving prices sharply higher, but there's more at play than just geopolitical tensions.

February 22, 2022
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A medical helper takes a photo of the Zhangjiakou National Ski Jumping Center during the Winter Olympics on Feb. 14.

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  • Environment

Beijing Olympic organizers are touting a green Games. The reality is much different

Authorities in China said they planted nearly 200,000 acres of forest and green areas prior to the Winter Games. But they also transplanted nearly 20,000 trees, which could endanger animal habitats.

February 19, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
GPB News NPR

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  • Environment

Infrastructure money makes it a good time to be in the well plugging business

Across the country, some 2 million abandoned oil and gas wells are leaking methane, a potent climate-warming gas. Now billions of dollars from the infrastructure law will be spent to cap them.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Reid Frazier
An aerial image shows storage tanks at the Chevron Products Company El Segundo Refinery adjacent to a neighborhood of homes at sunset in Manhattan Beach, Calif., on Jan. 24.

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  • Climate

Accusations of 'greenwashing' by big oil companies are well-founded, a new study finds

Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell used terms like "climate" and "low-carbon" more frequently in recent annual reports, but their actions on clean energy didn't match their words, researchers conclude.

February 16, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
The Big Air Shougang venue in Beijing has drawn stares because of the large cooling towers at the site, which stands where a huge steel plant once operated. The steel plant was idled to help ease pollution — but China's reliance on coal for energy continues.

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  • Sports

China puts coal plants at full capacity, even as it touts hosting a 'green' Olympics

"Coal supply will be increased and coal-fired power plants" will run at full capacity, the central government said this week.

February 16, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Dairy farms that capture methane from their cows' manure can earn valuable pollution-cutting credits through California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.

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  • Climate

How dairy farmers are cashing in on California's push for cleaner fuel

Big dairy farms are profiting from California's tougher limits on greenhouse emissions. They're getting paid to capture methane from cow manure. But critics say the system subsidizes polluters.

February 10, 2022
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  • Dan Charles
The receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline stands near Lubmin, Germany, on Feb. 2. Nord Stream 2, owned by Russian energy company Gazprom, is to transport Russian natural gas from Russia to Germany, but President Biden has said the pipeline will not go forward if Russia invades Ukraine.

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  • World

Explaining why natural gas plays such a big role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis

As much as 40% of Europe's natural gas supply comes from Russia, a reliance that puts U.S. allies like Germany in a jam when it comes to finding a sanctions solution to the crisis.

February 09, 2022
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  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Jackie Northam
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