![FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020, file photo, a house burns on Platina Road at the Zogg Fire near Ono, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric has been charged with manslaughter and other crimes, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in a Northern California wildfire last year that killed four people and destroyed hundreds of homes.]()
PG&E charged in California wildfire last year that killed 4SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and other crimes after its equipment sparked a Northern California wildfire that killed four people...By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
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![Motorists drive past a closed "Ben & Jerry's" ice-cream shop in the Israeli city of Yavne, about 30 kilometres south of Tel Aviv, on July 23, 2021. - On July 19, Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's announced it would no longer sell its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, namely the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have been under control of the Jewish state since 1967.]()
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![File-This July 27, 2021, file photo shows Simone Biles, of the United States, waiting to perform on the vault during the artistic gymnastics women's final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. Biles' sponsors including Athleta and Visa are lauding her decision to put her mental health first and withdraw from the gymnastics team competition during the Olympics. It's the latest example of sponsors praising athletes who are increasingly open about mental health issues. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)]()
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![The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on September 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 not to stop a Texas law that prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.]()
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![Vistra Energy, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is the state's largest power generator. (David Woo/Dallas Morning News/TNS)]()
Vistra expects a hit of up to $1.3 billion to its earnings due to winter...Vistra, which posted a $625 million profit, said it spent more than $10 million to prepare its power plants for the bitter cold that swept into the state last week, but natural gas shortages...By Marcy de Luna
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Oil & Gas
![The OPEC Secretariat building in Vienna on Dec. 4, 2019. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Stefan Wermuth.]()
Oil powers ahead as critical OPEC+ meeting loomsOil rebounded from its biggest slump since November ahead of a key OPEC+ meeting.By Saket Sundria and Alex Longley![As oil prices continue a steady rise, analysts say that if things go just right, $60 is a possibility by summer.]()
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![Mark McCollum, Weatherford's CEO.]()
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![FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2021 file photo, a general view of the Jaguari dam, which is part of the Cantareira System, responsible for providing water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, during a drought in Braganca Paulista, Brazil. Brazil is in the throes of its worst drought in 91 years, which has returned the spectre of power rationing.]()
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![FILE -11 In this Dec. 17, 2010 file photo, trucks make their way eastbound, in Livermore, Calif. More than 75 national companies are throwing their weight behind a drive to make trucks, vans and other large commercial fleet vehicles cleaner as a climate change initiative. Several states, including Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Washington, already are backing the move.]()
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![A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Asian shares were mixed Friday amid concerns over troubled Chinese real estate developer Evergrande and over the pandemic.]()
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![State Assembly Member Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, left, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, second left, listen to Superintendent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Clay Jordan, right, talk about the protective structure wrap used to protect the welcome sign and giant sequoia trees from the KNP Complex Fire, on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, in Sequoia National Park, Calif. Newsom on Thursday approved nearly $1 billion in new spending to prevent wildfires, signaling a policy shift in a state that historically focused more on putting out fires than stopping them before they start. (Ron Holman/The Times-Delta via AP)]()
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![FERC's new federal-state panel aims to build up the U.S. power grid to meet net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.]()
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![A petrol station in Liverpool, England, Thursday Sept. 23, 2021, which was closed due to having no fuel. The British government is trying to ease concerns of a fuel crisis after oil giants BP and ExxonMobil-owned Esso warned they had to ration supplies and close some gas stations as a result of a truck driver shortage. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)]()
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![A person and their dog cross Houston Street Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 as snow grips the city for the second time in a week, the result of an arctic air mass that sent temperatures plummeting and resulted in rolling blackouts across the city and the state. At one point about 1/3 of all CPS Energy customers were without electricity.]()
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![This May 16, 2021, photo shows window air conditioners in New York. In the first Biden administration rule aimed at combating climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.]()
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![Front to back; HNLMS Evertsen, JS Izumo, HMS Defender, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMCS Winnipeg, JS Ise, RFA Tidespring. UK Royal Navy Carrier Strike Group 21 HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Defender, RFA Tidespring and HNLMS Evertsen from CSG21 sails with Japanese ships JS Izumo and JS Ise along with the Canadian ship HMCS Winnipeg in the Pacific Ocean, Sept. 2021. With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear submarines, and the launch of a European strategy for greater engagement in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. and its allies are becoming growingly assertive in their approach toward a rising China. (UK Ministry of Defence via AP)]()
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![This Sept. 22, 2021 photo shows young Atlantic White Cedar trees growing in an area of Double Trouble State Park in Berkeley Township, N.J. where logging was once common. New Jersey officials plan to restore 10,000 acres of cedars in what they say is the largest such effort in the U.S.]()
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