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  • A burned car and home following the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Fritch, Texas, US, on Friday, March 1, 2024. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said as many as 500 structures such as houses and barns have been damaged or destroyed in the largest wildfire in state history. Photographer: Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Texas wildfires follow Warren Buffett’s warning about the ‘specter of zero profitability’ looming over utilities—and not just in California

    By Mark Chediak, Will Wade, and others
  • A nuclear power plant after Hurricane Idalia in Crystal River, Florida, US, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Florida has started to dig out from the aftermath of Idalia, which weakened to a tropical storm even as it brought heavy rain across Georgia and the Carolinas, caused billions of dollars in damage, left hundreds of flights grounded and thousands without power. Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    U.S. just gave a historic blessing to a new nuclear reactor that doesn’t use water for cooling

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg
  • DAGGETT, CA – OCTOBER 18: Solar farm at Daggett 3 Solar Power + Battery Energy Storage System Clearway Solar + Energy Storage on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 in Daggett, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Environment

    The U.S. will hit a huge milestone next year when solar power surpasses hydropower for the first time ever

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg
  • This photograph shows a wind turbine at the Wind Float Atlantic floating offshore wind farm, around 20km from the coast of Viana do Castelo, northern Portugal, on July 25, 2023. (Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL RIOPA/AFP via Getty Images)Environment

    Work on Washington Monument-sized wind turbines—the Atlantic’s tallest— is about to start off Martha’s Vineyard

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg
  • A Material Sales towboat docked on the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, US, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Shipments along the Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio and Arkansas rivers declined in the week ending June 25 from the previous week, according to the USDA’s weekly grain transportation report. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    A low Mississippi River is about to deepen Europe’s energy crisis

    By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade, and others
  • Bill Magness, president and chief executive officer of Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc., speaks during the 2019 CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, March 14, 2019.

    CEO of Texas’ power grid operator fired in wake of February blackouts

    By Will Wade, Naureen S. Malik, and others
  • MAIDSVILLE, WV - AUGUST 21: The Longview Power Plant, a coal-fired plant, stands on August 21, 2018 in Maidsville, West Virginia. The plant's single unit generates 700 net megawatts of electricity from run-of-mine coal and natural gas. In a stop in West Virginia tonight, President Donald Trump is expected to announce a proposal to allow states to set their own emissions standards for coal-fueled power plants. Environmental activists say this would be a massive blow to reducing carbon emissions. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Environment

    While Trump pushes fossil fuels, coal plants keep closing—and greenhouse gas emissions fall

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg
  • A coal conveyor is seen on the grounds of the recently idled Muhlenberg County Coal Co. Paradise Mine, a subsidiary of Murray Energy Holdings Co., in Central City, Kentucky, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Murray Energy, the largest privately owned U.S. coal company, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Columbus, Ohio, to restructure more than $2.7 billion of debt. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Why U.S. Miners Are Still Digging New Mines as Coal Prices Plunge

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg
  • UNITED STATES - AUGUST 07: Robert E. Murray, chief executive officer and president of Murray Energy Corporation, speaks to the media regarding efforts to save six miners who are trapped in a Crandall Canyon Mine located northwest of Huntington Utah on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. (Photo by Kenny Crookston/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    This Coal Baron Pushed Trump to Save U.S. Miners. Now His Company Is Going Bankrupt

    By Steven Church, Will Wade, and others
  • Coal is mined from a mountainside at a strip mine operation

    The U.S. Coal Industry Is Expecting Another Wave of Widespread Job Losses

    By Will Wade and Bloomberg

  • Hurricane Dorian Update: Headed to Florida as a Category 4 Storm

    By Brian K. Sullivan, Will Wade, and others

  • Hurricane Dorian Set to Lash Puerto Rico on Path to Florida

    By Brian K. Sullivan, Will Wade, and others