President Donald Trump has welcomed nearly 130 donors, allies and representatives of major companies for a dinner at the White House to reward them for their contributions to a new $250 million ballroom project.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press reveal Doug Burgum as North Dakota governor catered to the whims of oil and gas executives while leveraging those connections to expand his political profile.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary after his second administration begins in January.

Construction began in June on the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library planned for the Badlands of western North Dakota.

More hearings this month and in September are set for Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline network.

The Florida governor’s events in six cities are drawing some of the state’s biggest Republican donors.

If anything, it could backfire on US refineries that rely on a healthy dose of foreign crude to go full blast. "We're independent now; we have our own oil," Trump said Sunday. The United States has certainly made huge strides towards weaning itself off foreign oil. More than 6 million barrels of foreign crude is still imported everyday, most of that from neighbors Canada and Mexico. That means blanket tariffs against all foreign oil, or even just ones imposed against countries outside North America, could be disastrous for US refineries.