Weather

An intensifying Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico is threatening the center of the U.S. energy industry on Wednesday as the storm edges closer to land.

Oil production companies continue to shutdown ahead of a major hurricane approaching the Texas-Louisiana coastline. The shutdowns are approaching the number of closures during 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

SINGAPORE - Crude oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as traders weighed massive production cuts in the U.S. Gulf Coast from Tropical Storms Marco and Laura against rising coronavirus cases in Asia and Europe.

Iowa farmers say it will be a massive undertaking to recover from a hurricane-force storm that damaged an estimated 14 million acres of farmland earlier this month.

The largest oil refinery in the US, Motiva Enterprises, is preparing to shut down ahead of tropical storms Marco and Laura this week.

Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane.

Murphy Oil Corp and BHP were evacuating some workers and Royal Dutch Shell began shutting oil and gas production

Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Following a growing season last year filled with battering rainfall and bitter trade wars, U.S. farmers hoped 2020 would provide them an opportunity to make up some ground. Instead, the situation has grown worse for many as prices remain depressed.

The Golden State's recent power problems have drawn anger and new focus over an increased reliance on renewable energy and gaps in storage capacity for an event like a big heat wave.

Millions of homes and businesses in California are at risk of seeing rolling blackouts through Wednesday, following an extreme heat wave that has stressed the state's electrical system.

A storm system that blasted Iowa last week with hurricane-force winds and left at least three people dead in the state and devastated millions of acres of farmland caused damage estimated at nearly $4 billion, according to officials. 

Farmers across a wide swath of Iowa are dealing with the heartbreaking aftermath of a rare wind storm that turned what was looking like a record corn crop into deep losses for many.

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Iowa's three largest cities remained without electricity Wednesday, two days after a rare wind storm that hit the Midwest devastated the state's power grid, flattened valuable corn fields and killed two people.

The storm devastated the state’s power grid, flattened valuable corn fields and killed two people.

The powerful storm system that roared across the Midwest earlier this week killed at least two people and also caused widespread damage to millions of acres of crops in Iowa, according to officials.

Tens of thousands of customers remain without power in New York a week after Tropical Storm Isaias blasted the Northeast, spurring Gov. Andrew Cuomo to threaten to revoke the state operating licenses for two utilities. 

Over a million customers across the Midwest are without power Tuesday morning after a powerful storm system known as a derecho slammed the region, bringing winds over 90 mph to parts of Iowa and Illinois.

Tens of thousands of Connecticut residents remain without power nearly a week after Tropical Storm Isaias slammed the Northeast, which is now fueling a new storm of controversy involving the state's largest utility.

Nearly 48 hours after Tropical Storm Isaias blasted the Northeast, around 1.7 million customers are still without power in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.