Energy and Environment

A construction worker walks past signs about gas, food prices, and voting in Dallas.

GOP loss culprit? Trump dismal approval ratings track gas prices almost 1-for-1

Callie Patteson · November 4, 2026 12:20 pm

A man holds a "no data center" sign.

Data centers on track to go 1-40 on ballot measures in sign of backlash

Energy and environment graphic.

Incoming Democratic majorities will try to swing pendulum back on clean energy

A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, on Oct. 12, 2021.

Anti-Islam, anti-DEI Republican loses bid for Texas oil agency seat to Democrat

President Donald Trump stands on a stage wearing a white "USA" hat.

Gas prices in Trump’s second term hit record high for any presidency

Rep. Dan Crenshaw.

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans name Dan Crenshaw and Anthony Gonzalez as new members of Pelosi climate committee

Josh Siegel March 11, 2021 5:19 pm

Michael Regan.

Senate confirms Michael Regan as Biden EPA chief, positioning him to advance new emissions mandates

Abby Smith March 10, 2021 11:11 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by Bipartisan Policy Center: Congressional Democrats try to steer Biden away from federal oil and gas leasing ban toward reform

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 10, 2021 5:11 pm

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, describes his interest in imposing stricter rules for oil and gas drilling on federal lands as a matter of fairness.

Chuck Grassley teams with Jacky Rosen on bill to make oil companies pay up for public lands drilling

Josh Siegel March 10, 2021 2:01 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by Bipartisan Policy Center: Hints Biden might not outright ban oil and gas leasing on federal land?

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 9, 2021 5:10 pm

Twelve states sue Biden over climate change order

Mica Soellner March 8, 2021 8:47 pm

Daily on Energy: Manchin complicates Democratic plans for climate legislation, presented by Bipartisan Policy Center and U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 8, 2021 5:25 pm

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg addresses the media during a press conference in Plymouth, England, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. The 16-year-old climate change activist who has inspired student protests around the world will leave Plymouth, England, bound for New York in a high-tech but low-comfort sailboat.

Greta Thunberg says Biden’s climate policies don’t go far enough

Carly Roman March 8, 2021 3:50 am

Biden close to getting his green team

Josh Siegel March 7, 2021 5:00 pm

Daily on Energy: A hint that China doesn’t have plans to fulfill climate promises

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 5, 2021 5:51 pm

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has not fulfilled a promise during the presidential campaign to seek a waiver exempting her state from the federal government's pause on new oil and gas leasing.

Biden ‘twisted’ Democratic governors in knots with freeze on fracking leases

Josh Siegel March 5, 2021 11:20 am

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Kentucky Republican plots challenge to Biden attempts to target fossil fuel finance

Abby Smith March 5, 2021 4:00 am