Bloomberg North Carolina passed a clean-energy bill that could spur a wave of new solar projects in the country’s second-biggest solar state — but at the expense of wind. House Bill 589, which Governor Roy Cooper has signed, places a moratorium on new wind development through December 2018. The law creates a competitive bidding process that will bring more than ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration may have to reconsider its proposal from earlier this month to curb biofuel use after a US appeals court in Washington ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t have the authority to cut quotas while citing inadequate domestic supply. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel comes amid conflicting legal challenges to actions taken by the ...

Bloomberg Charter Communications Inc. is cool to Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s proposal to combine with his Sprint Corp., though talks remain active, according to a person familiar with the matter. Son, who is Sprint Corp.’s chairman, proposed a cash and stock merger of his money-losing wireless company with Charter, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified ...