Bloomberg While the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster money-losing nuclear plants have hit a potential hitch, New Jersey may press ahead with a rescue plan of its own. Lawmakers are exploring legislation after the state’s biggest utility warned that its reactors are at risk of being shut down in the next two years without a “safety net” because they’ll be ...

TRIPOLI / Reuters The head of Libya’s UN-backed government held a rare meeting with the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and the governor of Tripoli’s central bank to discuss funding to raise oil production. Relations between the three institutions have been fractious over the past two years due to stand-offs over public spending and funding for NOC. Ties ...

Bloomberg Almost all coal plants in the European Union will be outspending their income by the end of the next decade, relying on subsidies to stay open to back up wind and solar generation. About 54 percent of the region’s plants already fail to break even, according to a report by London-based Carbon Tracker Initiative. The facilities are kept online ...