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President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed executive orders aimed at combatting the climate crisis. They include suspending new leases for natural gas and oil development on federal lands and creating a commission focused on green jobs. “We can’t wait any longer,” Biden said. “We see it with our own eyes, we know it. We feel it in our bones.”

A pursuit driver stopped to pump gas while being chased by police in Los Angeles Tuesday.

A lot of people are struggling to find gas with many residents looking for extra fuel to power generators.

The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline increased by 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $2.22 per gallon.

More than two dozen oil tankers are anchored near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach due to decreased demand for oil amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

It started with a warning to watch her back, that people were “looking to hurt” her. From there, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators, it escalated into a chilling campaign to fire her as President Donald Trump and his allies angled in Eastern Europe for political advantage at home. Testimony from Yovanovitch, released on Monday, offered...

House Democrats on Monday released the written record of testimony from two witnesses who say they were caught up in the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the president’s political rivals. Those witnesses: former top State Department official Michael McKinley and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. NBC’s Alice Barr reports.

Lawyers for Ambassador Gordon Sondland announced Friday that he will appear for an interview before a joint House committee taking depositions in the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump despite having been ordered by the State Department not to appear. Sondland attorneys Robert Luskin and Kwame Manley said Sondland will honor a congressional subpoena and “looks forward to testifying” Oct....

Top U.S. diplomats encouraged Ukraine’s newly elected president to conduct an investigation linked to Joe Biden’s family in return for a high-profile visit to Washington with President Donald Trump. It soon escalated into what one feared was a “crazy” swap that risked vital U.S. military aid. That’s according to a cache of text messages released late Thursday by House investigators...

President Donald Trump is publicly encouraging China to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, snubbing his nose at an impeachment inquiry into whether a similar, private appeal to another foreign government violated his oath of office. Trump declared Thursday at the White House, “China should start an investigation into the Bidens.” He said he hadn’t previously asked Chinese President Xi...

Kurt Volker, the former Special Envoy to Ukraine, testifies before Congress Thursday on how his office handled the aftermath of President Trump’s controversial July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Volker resigned last week after being named in the whistleblower complaint centered on the call, which sparked the impeachment inquiry.

Bad fuel can make a mess of your car and leave you with costly repairs.

An odor of gas forced students and staff to evacuate from a school in Milford on Monday morning.

Mount Olive Church in Hartford is giving away free gasoline today as part of their fourth annual Gas on God giveaway.

Democrats denounced a plan by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, saying it was an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election. But lawyer Rudy Giuliani has scrapped plans to visit Ukraine, citing concerns about who he would be dealing with there. “I’ve decided...

Hundreds of thousands of students in more than 100 countries skipped school Friday to demand action on climate change. Kids in more than 1,200 cities across the globe are protesting a failure of governments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The “Friday’s for Future” rallies were one of the biggest international climate change actions yet.

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