Top StoryThinkGeoEnergy/Flickr As oil companies stay lean, workers move to renewable energy Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
www.nytimes.com Tesla to cut 10% of salaried staff, Musk tells employees The electric carmaker has been growing fast in recent years, but Elon Musk, its chief executive, appears to be concerned about a weakening economy.
Impacts www.nytimes.com ‘A slap in the face’: The pandemic disrupts young oil careers Students and recent graduates struggle to get hired as the oil industry cuts tens of thousands of jobs, some of which may never come back.
Politics www.nytimes.com Oil industry turns to mergers and acquisitions to survive With the price of a barrel stuck around $40 and no recovery in sight, companies are combining to cut costs and ride out the pandemic.
Politics www.nytimes.com ‘The coal industry is back,' Trump proclaimed. It wasn't The demise of coal-fired power plants in Arizona and Kentucky shows how the president, despite promises to restore jobs, failed to counter the forces decimating the industry.
Top Story www.nytimes.com Carrie McKean: This ‘big oil' bust is killing my small town I want us to pursue paths to cleaner, renewable energy. But not like this.
Politics www.nytimes.com Houston’s ‘horrifying' double crisis: Oil crash and virus shutdown Houston has been reeling from oil-market chaos on top of a coronavirus shutdown. Job losses could reach 300,000.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley
