Tugboats assist a containership as it prepares to dock at the Manila International Container Terminal at the Philippine capital on April 8. (Aaron Favila/AP/File) Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided April 11 to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships, if their planet-heating emissions are ...more

This image provided by South Bow shows a spill from the Keystone oil pipeline that occurred April 8 near Fort Ransom, N.D. (South Bow via AP) BISMARCK, N.D. — Workers have recovered thousands of gallons of crude oil from an underground pipeline spill on North Dakota farmland, the owner of the line said April 10, ...more

An aerial view of new cars waiting for shipment at a pier for ro-ro ships in Yantai city in eastern China's Shandong province. (Chinatopix Via AP) BEIJING — China announced April 11 that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% — the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the ...more

Year to date, U.S. Class 8 retail sales are down 9.4% to 50,627 units from 55,862 in 2024. (Aziz Shamuratov/Getty Images) U.S. Class 8 sales continued to trend below year-ago levels but posted a sequential gain in March, according to data from Wards Intelligence. Sales decreased 5% to 18,682 units from 19,658 during the same ...more

Employees working on a Nikola vehicle inside the now-closed manufacturing facility in Coolidge, Ariz. (Nikola Corp.) Lucid Group Inc. has agreed to take over the headquarters and electric truck factory previously belonging to Nikola Corp., the manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. In addition to snapping up Nikola’s former main office in Phoenix ...more

A battery storage complex in Houston. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images) “Drill, baby, drill” may be Texas’ unofficial motto, but “store, baby, store” is becoming more accurate. The Lone Star State may be the heart of America’s oil and gas map, but it’s quickly becoming the biggest installer of a technology key for renewables development: battery ...more

GM's Innovation Labs launched BrightDrop in 2021 as part of the company's push into the electric vehicle space. (Daniel Kunzfeld Photography) General Motors Co. will temporarily halt production at a factory in Ontario that makes commercial vans, the second Canadian assembly plant to shut this month. The Detroit-based automaker plans to start short-term layoffs on ...more

An Exxon Mobil Corp. oil drilling rig near Stanton, Texas. (Justin Hamel/Bloomberg News) Drilling in the U.S. shale patch declined at the fastest pace in almost two years as mounting international trade tensions threaten to stifle energy demand. The number of U.S. rigs drilling for crude — a closely followed metric that can point to ...more