Jeffrey Bair

1998: Ice storm in the Northeast | Average winter temperature: 35.55°F (#23 hottest year; 8.8% above 100-year average). Record one-day snowfall: Greene County, N.Y. on April 1 (37 in.). Sixteen people were killed in January of 1998 when a four-day ice storm tore across parts of the Northeast, leaving 80% of Maine residents without power. The violent storm, which dropped 3 inches of freezing rain, took place from Jan. 5 to 9 and cost $2 billion, making it one of the most expensive storms of the past 40 years.

Gasoline prices are starting to soar as cold blast supply chains

February 18, 2021 at 10:36 a.m.

Hiccups in the U.S. fuel-supply system are driving up gasoline prices as refineries in the nation's oil-processing hub attempt to climb out of a disastrous deep freeze. Texas officials warned...

The Corn Plus ethanol plant on May 22, 2015, in Winnebago, Minn.

Trump’s push for corn-heavy fuel isn’t reaching your gas pump

November 1, 2019 at 1:56 p.m.

Donald Trump's effort to boost corn demand by allowing year-round sales of ethanol-blended gasoline has run into a logistical problem. Few stations offer it. In corn country, gasoline with a...

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