US Declares Power Emergency in Southeast on Heat Wave June 25, 2025 By Ari Natter and Josh Saul The Trump administration has declared a power emergency in the US Southeast as a blistering heat wave strains grids across...
AI’s Need for Power Spurs Return of Dirty Gas Turbines June 5, 2025 By Naureen S. Malik and Josh Saul If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity...
AI’s Urgent Need for Power Spurs Return of Dirtier Gas Turbines June 4, 2025 By Naureen S. Malik and Josh Saul If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity...
Meta Plans Nearly $1 Billion Data Center Project in Wisconsin April 7, 2025 By Brody Ford, Riley Griffin and Josh Saul Meta Platforms Inc. plans to spend nearly $1 billion on the development of a data center project in central Wisconsin,...
Flooded Farms, Fouled Rivers, Dozens Dead: Helene’s Rising Toll October 2, 2024 By Ilena Peng, Gerson Freitas Jr., Ari Natter and Josh Saul As historic floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Helene recede across the US Southeast, the region faces a humanitarian, economic and ecological...
Hurricane Ernesto Threatens Bermuda, Leaves Puerto Rico in Dark August 15, 2024 By Michelle Ma and Josh Saul Hurricane Ernesto took aim at Bermuda as almost half of Puerto Rico remained without power in the storm’s wake, the...
Minnesota Dam Risks Failure During Wave of Intense US Weather June 26, 2024 By Josh Saul A dam holding back swollen flood waters in Minnesota was at risk of failure Monday as intense weather buffeted much...
Texas Fires Trigger Drop for Xcel With Law Firm Alleging Link March 1, 2024 By Mark Chediak and Josh Saul The worst-ever Texas wildfire sent shares of Xcel Energy Inc. plunging after a law firm said it might be linked...
North Carolina Attack Shows Fragility of U.S. Power Grids, Experts Say December 7, 2022 By Josh Saul The attacks that left two electrical substations in North Carolina riddled with gunfire and knocked out power to 45,000 homes...
U.S. Lawmakers Push Insurers to Stop Underwriting Fossil Fuels April 27, 2022 By Josh Saul and Max Reyes A group of Democratic lawmakers, mostly members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have asked some of the nation’s biggest insurance...