In rural America, the shoulder-high corn is increasingly competing with a new cash crop: solar power. Acres of solar panels shine brightly in fields along interstates and rural byways, signaling a change in how America’s farming country generates income. The need for a happy marriage between these old and new industries has inspired a burst of innovation and a ...

  If Europe was a school student, last week it sat its first exam in Energy Savings 101. It failed. And that doesn’t bode well for much tougher tests to come in January. Despite strong imports of liquefied natural gas to replace Russian shipments, Europe needs to reduce gas consumption — by a lot — if it’s going to make ...

  After days of insisting there’d be no backtracking on a mini-budget that sank the pound and caused panic in financial markets, the UK government has duly reversed itself. Prime Minister Liz Truss and Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed on Monday that the promised cut in the top rate of income tax from 45% to 40% would be canceled. “We ...