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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought a wartime energy transition to Europe. The continent’s decades-long timelines for overhauling energy supply systems that support more than 440 million people are now being revved up under extraordinary duress.

(Bloomberg) — The European Union’s executive arm is testing the waters to see if its trading partners, including the United States, could boost natural gas…

Energy producers -- not the transition to a greener economy -- are a key reason for soaring natural gas and power prices in Europe, according to International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol.

(Bloomberg) Energy Day at COP26 produced a couple of deals meant to phase out fossil fuels and bring in clean energy. But the agreements -- crafted as part of the U.K.’s effort to “consign coal to history” -- were soon looking a bit thin.The coal pact didn’t include the U.S. or China. It…

Offsets are a way for buyers to continue polluting while essentially paying someone else to adopt climate-friendly behaviours. But no global oversight or…

Thunberg and other activists from Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network appeared at a panel at the climate summit to raise awareness about…

European Union energy ministers clashed at an emergency meeting over how to cushion consumers and companies from soaring power and natural gas prices, with political and legal constraints leaving little room for immediate action.

One of the most dangerous greenhouse gases is leaking into the atmosphere relentlessly from the EU’s easternmost edge. Invisible plumes of methane escape from Romania’s oil fields, gas pipes, rusting storage containers and even a well next to a playground. The job of finding the leaking gas, with more than 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term, falls to James Turitto from the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. He has found more than 70 leaks using a special infrared ...

April 13, 2021 7:02 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee Republican lawmakers spent much of the last four years rebranding as a working-class party, following then-President Donald Trump’s lead on things like immigration and tariffs and setting aside their push to cut spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. But Trump’s campaign pledge to “save” safety-net programs has left conservatives with an identity crisis. With their party now in the minority, ...

The benchmark stock gauge closed 0.1% higher after declining as much as 1.8% amid a rout in technology shares on concern the high-flying stocks had become overvalued. The Nasdaq 100 ended just slightly lower, mostly erasing a loss that reached 3.5% after Powell signaled the Federal Reserve was nowhere close to pulling back on its support for the economy. Airlines, lodging companies and cyclical shares set to benefit from the end of pandemic lockdowns outperformed. So-called growth shares are ha...