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Debris is seen from a damaged FedEx facility after a tornado in Portage, Mich., Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Brad Devereaux/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)
AnalysisClimateIn-DepthWeather

What is a tornado emergency and how is it different from a warning or a watch?

A tornado emergency is the U.S. National Weather Service’s highest alert level. For one to be issued, there has to be an imminent...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Hyundai Motor is seen on a car displayed at a Hyundai dealership in Seoul, September 1, 2011.  REUTERS/Truth Leem/File Photo
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

Hyundai Motor plans to add hybrids to US plant within current investment

Hyundai plans to use the investment it has already lined up for the US to produce hybrid vehicles at its electric vehicle (EV)...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Tesla on display at the Everything Electric exhibition at the ExCeL London international exhibition and convention centre in London, Britain, March 28, 2024.  REUTERS/Peter Cziborra/File Photo
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In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud

U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading about its EV’s self-driving capabilities

BusinessNatural GasNewsRegulationsUtilities

US’s largest public utility ignores warnings over new natural gas plant

TVA gas plant moving ahead despite EPA's criticism of environmental review that apparently showed renewable alternative was unfeasible.

FILE - A grain wagon supports a sign against the proposed transmission line by American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative, along Highway 18-151 near Ridgeway, Wis., Dec. 8, 2018. A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. The utility companies are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile (164-kilometer) transmission line linking Iowa’s Dubuque County and Wisconsin’s Dane County. About a mile of the line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin. (Barry Adams/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File, file)
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High-voltage power line through Mississippi River refuge approved by federal appeals court

About a mile of the high-voltage power line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville, Wisconsin.

FILE PHOTO: Workers load packages into Amazon Rivian electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway, California, U.S., November 16, 2022.  REUTERS/Sandy Huffaker/File Photo
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)EmissionsNews

Amazon unveils first electric seaport trucks amid push to slash tailpipe emissions

The deployment is a first for Amazon, extending its vehicle electrification projects across its land-based logistics network that stretches from ocean ports to...

FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen operating in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas, U.S. on May 3, 2017. Picture taken May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Ernest Scheyder/File Photo
BusinessElectricityFinanceHydropowerNatural GasNewsOilTransmission

US power and natgas prices turn negative in Texas, California and Arizona

US spot power and natgas prices turned negative in Texas, California and Arizona as pipeline maintenance trapped gas in the Permian Shale

Electric power transmission pylon miniatures and Sempra Energy logo are seen in this illustration taken, December 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
BusinessElectricityFinanceInfrastructureNewsUtilities

US utility Sempra’s profit falls 17% in first quarter

U.S. power and gas utility Sempra posted a 17% drop in its first-quarter profit on Tuesday, impacted by lower earnings at two of...

FILE PHOTO: Storage tanks and gas-chilling units are seen at Freeport LNG, the second largest exporter of U.S. liquified natural gas, near Freeport, Texas, U.S., February 11, 2023. Reuters/Arathy Somasekhar/File Photo
LegislationLiquefied Natural GasNewsPoliticsRegulations

Nearly 75 Democratic lawmakers support Biden’s LNG pause

Nearly 75 U.S. lawmakers from President Joe Biden's Democratic party on Tuesday praised his pause on approvals of exports of LNG

A view of Duke Energy's Marshall Power Plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, U.S. November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Keane/File Photo
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Duke Energy beats first-quarter profit estimates on higher rates

Duke Energy beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Tuesday, as the utility benefited from higher rates and robust demand for electricity

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