Energy and Environment

A person walks a dog past signs about gas, food prices and voting on Nov. 3, 2026 in Dallas, Texas.

Gas prices drop below $4 for first time since July despite inflation

Brady Knox · November 10, 2026 1:10 pm

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

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

Trump says wasting water worsens California wildfires, but water is not how you fight fires

Josh Siegel August 7, 2018 12:00 am

A hillside smolders after flames passed through during the Ranch Fire in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2018.

Trump blames California for its wildfires, not climate change

Josh Siegel August 6, 2018 7:10 pm

Daily on Energy: Trump blames ‘environmental laws’ for wildfire intensity

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel August 6, 2018 3:13 pm

Hurricane Hector was updated to a Category 4 storm on Sunday.

Hawaii faces threat of hurricane on top of erupting volcano

Daniel Chaitin August 6, 2018 12:30 am

Trump blames California wildfires on ‘bad environmental laws’

Naomi Lim August 6, 2018 12:07 am

Electric powered buses sit parked at the New Flyer Industries Ltd. manufacturing facility in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. The U.S. Census Bureau is releasing durable goods figures on August 2.

Electric buses will only leave cities seeing red

Ross Marchand August 5, 2018 4:00 pm

President Donald Trump hosts a roundtable discussion at the American Center of Mobility, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Ypsilanti Township, Mich.

Trump faces off with California on right to make cars cleaner

Josh Siegel August 4, 2018 4:00 am

This April 29, 2014 photo shows an Exxon sign at a Exxon gas station in Carnegie, Pa. Exxon Mobil Corp. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

SEC ends its climate change probe of Exxon Mobil

Josh Siegel August 3, 2018 7:09 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 27, 2018, environmental activist & billionaire Tom Steyer poses at his offices in San Francisco. Arizonaâs largest utility is fiercely opposing a push to mandate increased use of renewable energy in the sun-drenched state, setting up a political fight over the measure funded by Steyer.

Let’s hope Tom Steyer wins the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination

Tom Rogan August 3, 2018 4:48 pm

The Amazon Brilliance oil tanker sails past a storage tank at the Cheniere Energy Inc. liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Sabine Pass, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Cheniere Energy Inc. said its first cargo of LNG from its new Louisiana export terminal will be delayed by as much as two months because of faulty wiring.

China’s plan for tariffs on US natural gas threatens Trump’s energy export agenda

Josh Siegel August 3, 2018 3:16 pm

Daily on Energy: China threatens tariffs on U.S. natural gas

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel August 3, 2018 2:50 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Trump kills Obama’s unhelpful emissions regulation

Washington Examiner August 3, 2018 4:00 am