ENERGY

(Headline USA) Wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada on Sunday left some residents keeping a wary eye out for possible evacuation orders while others already forced to flee their homes waited to see what would be left on their return. In western Canada, over 20,000 people were forced to...

(Headline USA) Two helicopter pilots who crashed while they were fighting a wildfire in Utah are dead, officials confirmed Saturday. The pilots were killed when their Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter went down Friday morning, according to the Sevier County Sheriff. The helicopter was among those fighting a fire in the Fishlake National Forest....

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said on Thursday that President Donald Trump was engaging in “theater diplomacy,” citing the US president’s many threats and climbdowns amid uncertainty over whether a deal between Iran and Oman over the Strait of Hormuz will be reached. “‘Massive attack coming…...

(Headline USA) Wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures, authorities said Sunday. The fires in and around Spokane, the state's second largest city, burned about 8.2 square miles over the weekend and were...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The typically anti-Trump publication Newsweek asserted on the cover of its Aug. 7-14 newsstand edition that “Trump was right” in an article about his military action to arrest ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2083244317477339399 The cover illustration showed the U.S. president straddling the Gulf of America with one...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) During the 13th cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s second term, the president indicated he expects more back-and-forth strikes with Iran as he tells reporters he is “losing faith” in the Islamic Republic. The president expressed frustration with the Iranian regime, adding that “they do...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) The executive vice president of a coalition advocating for data center development says reversing course on incentives in Illinois could have “detrimental” economic consequences. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Aspen Climate Summit he reversed course on offering tax exemptions to data centers to...

(Headline USA) As dry, windy weather fueled a big wildfire near a city in central Oregon, a fourth firefighter died after he and several colleagues last month were overcome by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border. Nathan Matthews, 43, of Lincoln, Nebraska, died Friday, the federal Interior Department said in...

(Headline USA) U.S. gas prices jumped to an average of $4 a gallon again Monday as the U.S. and Iran launched more attacks. According to motor club federation AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is now back to $4. The average price a year ago was $3.14...

(Headline USA) Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday, as smoke enveloped the nation’s capital in a gloomy, eerie haze. Air quality warnings were expected to remain in effect through Saturday across a wide...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command on Thursday announced it was bombing Iran for the sixth consecutive night as the US continues to escalate its attacks on the country. “At 2 pm ET today, US forces began conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran for the sixth consecutive night...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) New York became the first state to pause on energy-hungry data centers under an executive order signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul Tuesday, which comes in response to concerns about rising utility bills and the regional electric grid. The directive signed by Hochul sets a one-year...