(Dan McCaleb, The Center Square) President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order to protect revenue from all sales of Venezuelan oil held in U.S. Treasury accounts from seizure by courts or creditors.
Citing the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act, Trump said the executive order is...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US oil companies want “serious guarantees” from the Trump administration before making large investments in Venezuela, according to a report from the Financial Times.
After launching the attack on Caracas that killed around 100 people and resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, Trump said the US...
(Headline USA) The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.
Democrats and five Republicans voted to advance the war powers resolution on a 52-47 vote and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US forces on Wednesday boarded and took by force a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that it initially tried to seize off the coast of Venezuela weeks ago, an action that drew condemnation from Moscow.
The tanker was named the Bella 1 when the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called out the Trump administration’s attempt to take over Venezuela’s oil industry following the US attack on the country that resulted in the US abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and the killing of dozens of people.
“It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil,”...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration has told another coal-fired power facility to remain open, this time ordering the owners of a Colorado electricity generating unit to keep it running beyond its Wednesday retirement date.
Compliance will cost Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and the other owners of the Craig Station...
(Headline USA) Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.
Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground....
(Headline USA) A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone, setting off a chain reaction of snow, ice, rain and severe weather expected to affect much of the country.
Snow and strengthening winds spread across the Upper Midwest...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) Anti-oil and gas advocates across the country have pursued litigation in recent years attempting to force the fossil fuel industry to pay for decades of financial damages the advocates claim were caused by climate change.
Several cases have been dismissed while others advanced through court...
(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) With the impending rescheduling of marijuana in the U.S., the transportation industry is searching for answers on whether it still will legally be able to test employees before sending them on the road or in the air.
Truck and school bus drivers, train engineers and...
(Lauren Jessop, The Center Square) For 67 million people relying on electricity from the regional power grid, PJM, cheaper utility bills in 2026 are little more than a pipe dream.
It’s not an unexpected blow, despite moves from the Trump administration and state regulators to keep prices in check. Why?...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com)The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that US special operations forces raided a ship last month, several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, that had departed China and was bound for Iran.
The report, which cited unnamed US officials, said that US special operators who boarded...