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    Over a million people are losing power during a freezing snowstorm while data centers nearby guzzle electricity

    The terms of data center agreements with local governments and utilities often aren’t available to the public.

    By Nikki Luke, Conor Harrison and The Conversation
    February 4, 2026

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    Red Cross medics check the temperature of a policeman during the 178th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, on March 6, 2020. - All eyes are on Russia at the gathering of OPEC countries and their allies, with the cartel hoping to convince Moscow to back drastic production cuts to counter the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP) (Photo by ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images)
    International

    Why the Saudi Arabia-Russia oil price war could mean the death of OPEC

    By Julian Lee and Bloomberg
    March 17, 2020
    Crude is tanking. Why then are the Saudis so confident?

    Crude is tanking. Why then are the Saudis so confident?

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    March 16, 2020
    Sci-fi tech tackles climate change with fake trees
    Magazine

    Sci-fi tech tackles climate change with fake trees

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    March 16, 2020
    Inside ‘Project Odessa,’ an experiment in greener fossil-fuel power

    Inside ‘Project Odessa,’ an experiment in greener fossil-fuel power

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    March 16, 2020
    ESS.04.20.Climate Crisis
    Magazine

    Wall Street is starting to put pressure on the fossil fuel industry—just not aggressively enough

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    March 16, 2020
    Big Oil’s Hail Mary
    Magazine

    Big Oil’s Hail Mary

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    March 16, 2020
    Saudi Aramco shares sink as the oil price war and coronavirus toll escalates

    Saudi Aramco shares sink as the oil price war and coronavirus toll escalates

    By Anthony DiPaola, Matthew Martin and Bloomberg
    March 15, 2020
    Oil pumping jacks, also known as "nodding donkeys", operate in an oilfield near Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Saudi Aramco plans to boost its oil-output capacity for the first time in a decade as the worlds biggest exporter raises the stakes in a price and supply war with Russia and U.S. shale producers. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images
    International

    Why Saudi Arabia’s plan to punish Russia with an oil price war likely won’t work

    By Dina Khrennikova, Olga Tanas and Bloomberg
    March 12, 2020
    The oil sector takes its next hit: Coronavirus on offshore rigs
    International

    The oil sector takes its next hit: Coronavirus on offshore rigs

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    March 11, 2020
    Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020.
    International

    Coronavirus and a price war battered oil markets. But the real victims will be far from Wall Street

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    March 11, 2020
    PepsiCo is buying Rockstar energy drink maker for $3.85 billion
    Finance

    PepsiCo is buying Rockstar energy drink maker for $3.85 billion

    By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg
    March 11, 2020
    This picture taken on December 11, 2019, shows a Saudi security boat patrolling by an oil tanker at the port of Ras al-Khair, about 185 kilometres north of Dammam in Saudi Arabia's eastern province overlooking the Gulf. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
    International

    Saudi Arabia-Russia oil price war escalates as Aramco announces 25% output hike

    By Javier Blas, Matthew Martin, Grant Smith and Bloomberg
    March 10, 2020
    Oil rigs stand in the Permian Basin area of Odessa, Texas, on Jan. 19, 2019. In the Permian, America's busiest oil patch, a producer needs to blast as much as 60,000 barrels of water into a well every day, along with sand and chemicals, to complete the fracking that cracks open the tight, oil-bearing rock about a mile underground.

    ‘This is a bloodbath for U.S. oil:’ Price plunge will test how robust the shale boom really is

    By Anne Sraders and Katherine Dunn
    March 10, 2020
    Here are two of the biggest losers from the Saudi Arabia oil price war
    Finance

    Here are two of the biggest losers from the Saudi Arabia oil price war

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    March 9, 2020
    Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia arrives for the 178th meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, on March 6, 2020. - All eyes are on Russia at the gathering of OPEC countries and their allies, with the cartel hoping to convince Moscow to back drastic production cuts to counter the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP) (Photo by ALEX HALADA/AFP via Getty Images)
    International

    Oil analysts see prices dropping into the $20s on coronavirus and Saudi Arabia-Russia price war

    By Ramsey Al-Rikabi and Bloomberg
    March 9, 2020
    Demonstrators hold cardboard wind turbines in the air during a protest over climate action in Kiel, Germany in November 2019.

    The oil industry is finally talking climate crisis, but don’t expect change to come easily

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    February 28, 2020
    Oil demand was set to rise in 2020, then the coronavirus outbreak hit

    Oil demand was set to rise in 2020, then the coronavirus outbreak hit

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    February 26, 2020
    LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 12: A couple sit on a bench in the morning sun in Greenwich park with Canary Wharf seen in the distance on February 12, 2020 in London, England. High winds, rain and snow from Storm Ciara has brought damage and disruption to public transport and communities across the United Kingdom this week. Storm Dennis is expected to arrive later in the week and with it bringing more widespread strong winds and heavy rain. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 12: A couple sit on a bench in the morning sun in Greenwich park with Canary Wharf seen in the distance on February 12, 2020 in London, England. High winds, rain and snow from Storm Ciara has brought damage and disruption to public transport and communities across the United Kingdom this week. Storm Dennis is expected to arrive later in the week and with it bringing more widespread strong winds and heavy rain. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
    International

    London joins coronavirus work-from-home trend as Chevron sends traders home over sick employee

    By Kevin Crowley, Catherine Ngai, Laura Hurst, Sheela Tobben and Bloomberg
    February 26, 2020
    Germany, the engine of Europe, plans to ditch nuclear and coal—regardless of whether renewables can fill the void

    Germany, the engine of Europe, plans to ditch nuclear and coal—regardless of whether renewables can fill the void

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    February 25, 2020
    Dow Plunges Over 1000 Points As Spread Of Coronavirus Rattles Markets
    Finance

    Coronavirus fears batter the stock market, wiping out all of this year’s gains

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    February 24, 2020
    Supreme Court wades into battle over Atlantic Coast Pipeline
    Environment

    Supreme Court wades into battle over Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    By Denise Lavoie and The Associated Press
    February 24, 2020
    In China, oil won’t be the only energy sector battered by the coronavirus

    In China, oil won’t be the only energy sector battered by the coronavirus

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    February 18, 2020
    Coronavirus may be the straw that breaks the back of oil fracking
    Finance

    Coronavirus may be the straw that breaks the back of oil fracking

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    February 15, 2020
    Germany Cooling Towers-Energy Emissions

    Energy emissions plateaued in 2019, as advanced economies gave up coal

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    February 11, 2020
    15 January 2020, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: Red position lights shine on wind turbines in the "Odervorland" wind farm in the Oder-Spree district. Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)
    Environment

    The latest landfill problem comes from the renewable energy industry

    By Chris Martin and Bloomberg
    February 5, 2020
    The U.S. may soon have the world’s oldest nuclear power plants

    The U.S. may soon have the world’s oldest nuclear power plants

    By Ari Natter and Bloomberg
    February 4, 2020
    the virus has upended trade flows and probably led to a 20% cut to China’s oil demand. Here, staff on PetroChina Southwest Oil & Gasfield Company, a CNPC subsidiary, work at the natural gas purification plant in Suining in southwest China's Sichuan province on Jan. 15, 2020.
    International

    OPEC nerves grow as coronavirus forces China to slash oil imports

    By Sharon Cho, Grant Smith and Bloomberg
    February 4, 2020
    The next frontier of road rage is the parking garage

    The next frontier of road rage is the parking garage

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    January 30, 2020
    A picture taken on December 2, 2019 in Donges, near Saint-Nazaire, western France, shows a view of Total Refinery and fuel depot as public works companies (BTP) workers strain some accesses to protest against a planned tax reform. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
    International

    Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough

    By Francois de Beaupuy and Bloomberg
    January 28, 2020
    Disposal and recycling information on a lithium-ion automotive battery pack on the Volkswagen AG (VW) ID.3 electric automobile assembly line at the automaker's factory in Zwickau, Germany, on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019.

    Running on EV: The race to solve lithium-ion battery recycling before it’s too late

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    January 28, 2020

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