Tag: Weather

Cold weather sends natural gas prices soaring

The Associated Press · January 29, 2014 9:05 pm

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Ashe Schow · January 29, 2014 5:00 am

Natural gas plunges 7 percent as cold front ends

Washington Examiner · January 27, 2014 10:05 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014, file photo, homes are covered in snow and ice in Chicago. The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire. On Friday Jan. 24, 2014, the price in the futures market rose to within a whisper of $5 per 1,000 cubic feet, the highest level in three and a half years. The price of natural gas is up 25 percent in two weeks, and is 45 percent higher than last year at this time. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Natural gas soars as cold grips homes, drillers

Jonathan Fahey · January 24, 2014 11:18 pm

Wheat gains on cold weather concern

Steve Rothwell · January 23, 2014 9:33 pm

Gov. Jerry Brown declares a drought state of emergency while speaking in San Francisco on Friday. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Governor: California comes back but is challenged by drought

Associated Press · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

As temperatures plummet throughout the Northeast, increasing demand for heating fuel, natural gas prices jumped. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Natural gas futures rise to two-year high as winter storm pummels U.S.

Bloomberg News · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Children line up to receive a Christmas gift from volunteers near a giant lantern with the colors of the Philippine flag, in Tacloban, Philippines, a city devastated by the Nov. 8 typhoon Haiyan. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Energy and Environment

NOAA: World in 2013 was 4th hottest on record

Seth Borenstein · January 21, 2014 10:11 pm

Federal Gov’t Closes Due to Threat of Snow

Daniel Halper · January 21, 2014 12:03 pm

Washington Secrets

Snow won’t stop 41st March for Life

Paul Bedard · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Washington's federal government offices closed Tuesday, and may well close Wednesday, due to snow.ÃÂ Government workers still get paid. In the rest of the country, work goes on as usual.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Snow day musing: Americans don’t miss the vast federal bureaucracy that sucks up their tax dollars

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Gasoline tumbled to a two-month low last week after a government report showed supplies climbed to 233.1 million barrels, the highest since Feb. 8. Demand fell to the least in a year, pushing pump prices to a three-week low. (Thinkstock)

Bullish gasoline bets slump as cold blast chills demand

Bloomberg News · January 20, 2014 5:00 am