Energy and Environment

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, from left, Sen. Shelly Moore Capito, R-W.Va., chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., talk to reporters about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act to reform the federal environmental review and permitting process, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The 24 Democrats and one Republican who voted against advancing the Senate permitting bill

Callie Patteson · November 9, 2026 7:10 pm

Lee, Moore Capito, Whitehouse, and Heinrich.

Major bill to cut red tape for energy projects clears Senate hurdle

Wind turbines can be seen from Patterson Pass Road in Livermore, California.

Measure to overhaul California’s bedrock environmental law fails

Newly elected Democratic governors in Texas, Gina Hinojosa in the big frame on right, Ohio, showing Amy Acton, top left, and Georgia Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms, bottom left.

Data centers face uphill battle with incoming Democratic governors

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

Daily on Energy: Oil industry left out of Trump’s initial coronavirus life raft

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 12, 2020 3:53 pm

American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers

Largest oil trade group lobbies in White House meeting against ‘policy relief’ for price crash

Josh Siegel March 11, 2020 9:10 pm

Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ skills tested by oil price war

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 11, 2020 4:15 pm

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Conservatives look to squash Trump bailout for oil industry

Josh Siegel March 10, 2020 9:56 pm

Daily on Energy: It’s looking pretty grim for the once-promising bipartisan Senate energy bill

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 10, 2020 4:23 pm

Congress created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s as a way to mitigate supply disruptions.

Energy Department suspends sale of emergency oil in response to price dive

Josh Siegel March 10, 2020 10:40 am

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo.

Bipartisan energy bill meant to reach Trump’s desk is stuck on fight over coolant amendment

Abby Smith March 10, 2020 12:31 am

Oil industry ‘not asking’ for bailout from Trump, trade group chief says

Josh Siegel March 9, 2020 10:57 pm

The 2015 Paris Agreement is a global pact to combat climate change under which all of the nations of the world voluntarily set their own nonbinding targets for reducing carbon emissions.

EU official exploits coronavirus to push awful climate change legislation

Patrick Michaels March 9, 2020 8:37 pm

Daily on Energy: Cheaper gas is little consolation as oil price collapse portends macroeconomic trouble

Josh Siegel, Abby Smith March 9, 2020 4:33 pm

In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the tarmac to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J.

Trump: Consumers will benefit from sinking oil prices amid coronavirus outbreak

Anthony Leonardi March 9, 2020 4:03 pm

The group Friends of the Earth obtained a leaked EU document that details how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would kill December's Paris climate deal by making it harder for the nations to live up to their obligations to reduce emissions. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

‘Staggering failure’: Environmentalists slam House Democratic flagship climate bill

Abby Smith March 9, 2020 4:01 am