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Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

Europe will need to import up to 160 additional liquefied natural gas cargoes this winter due to lower storage and a decline in pipeline flows from Russia and Algeria, according to analysts and data, deepening its dependency on U.S. gas.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

The extreme presidential power hasn't been used without state consent in over 60 years.

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

In most Voting Rights Acts cases, minority voters are suing their state leaders, not on their side. But for awhile, a cadre of Black voters and Louisiana officials were both defending the state's current Congressional map in the Callais case before the U.S. Supreme Court. But they are unusual bedfellows no more.