Longer, more frequent outages afflict the U.S. power grid as states fail to prepare for climate change
Across the nation, severe weather fueled by climate change is pushing aging electrical systems past their limits, often with deadly results.
What it would take to put all our electric lines underground
Burying electric lines instead of putting them overhead gets them out of the way of bad weather. But it would cost: The U.S. has 160,000...
America’s electric grid has a big, looming problem: Getting power to where it’s needed
The nation's strained power grid is either at a turning point toward infrastructure renewal or poised to dash clean-power visions as it crumbles under new...
Panic fuel buying strikes Southeastern United States as pipeline resumes operations
Governors in four states have taken steps to relax fuel transport rules to ease pain at the pump. But the run on gas stations is...
Fuel shortages crop up in Southeast, gas prices climb after pipeline hack
Lines of panicked drivers overwhelmed gas stations in the Southeast on Tuesday as rising prices fed fears of shortages in the aftermath of a ransomware...
Minnesota gasps at the financial damage it faces from the Texas freeze
When Texas’ natural gas supplies froze up, prices soared. Gas utilities in Minnesota that turned to the daily spot market to meet demand had to...