Colder weather and, for many, some time off for the holidays makes winter a perfect time of year to “catch up on reading,” according to billionaire and avid reader Bill Gates. “There’s something about the quieter days around the holidays that makes it easier to sit down with a good …
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, the Mountain Pass mine looks like any other stretch of dust and rock. But for decades, this lonely pit supplied the world with the rare-earth elements that make modern technology — and modern warfare — …
Kathleen Alexander wove through a crowded room to reach the cash register at San Francisco-based One65’s patisserie. There, the co-founder and CEO of Savor watched her company chocolate bonbons get purchased by consumers for the first time. As the September evening wore on, Alexander saw hundreds of the candies — …
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks near the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 19, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters The Energy Department‘s cancellation of more than 300 funding awards to projects in 16 states won by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the …
General Electric could not have chosen a better moment to launch its energy businesses as an independent company, CEO Scott Strazik said one month before GE Vernova debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. “Now that’s a big statement,” Strazik acknowledged at GE Vernova’s first investors’ day in March 2024. …
Witthaya Prasongsin | Moment | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s attack on solar and wind projects threatens to raise energy prices for consumers and undermine a stretched electric grid that’s already straining to meet rapidly growing demand, renewable energy executives warn. Trump has long said wind power turbines are unattractive …
Keith Lambert and his family cope with the extreme heat of summertime Chicago by going in and out of their house as quickly as possible and making sure their insulated shades are always drawn. “It’s really just minimizing the exposure,” Lambert said. “Its about doing your best to manage your …
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. From the depths of the ocean to the air we breathe, plastic has infiltrated every corner of our planet. Every year, millions of tons of single-use plastic end up in landfills or waterways, harming marine life, contaminating soil, …
Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu (C) delivers a speech as he attends a demonstration ahead of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) session tasked with issuing the first Advisory Opinion (AO) on States’ legal obligations to address climate change, in The Hague on July 23, 2025. John Thys | …
(This is The Best Stocks in the Market , brought to you by Josh Brown and Sean Russo of Ritholtz Wealth Management.) Josh — It’s quite possible that 2025 will be remembered as the year where defensive utilities became growth stocks. As Sean explains below, this sector is the second …
