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

Nuclear industry facing crisis that Trump must address, think tank says

John Siciliano March 29, 2018 4:01 am

Plumes of steam drift from the cooling tower of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, on April 4, 2017.

Ohio utility plans to close three nuclear power plants

John Siciliano March 28, 2018 11:20 pm

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. Pence said that in a meeting with governors at the White House Monday, they and Trump will âmake the safety of our nationâs schools and our students our top national priority.â

Mike Pence talks about finding a ‘win-win’ for ethanol mandate, but cautiously

John Siciliano March 28, 2018 10:53 pm

PREPA employee Jose Colon Maldonado waits for Governor Ricardo Rossello and staff from the army engineers corps to take a tour thru the facilities of the Palo Seco Thermal Power Plant, which the Electric Power Authority plans to activate in order to energize different areas of the metropolitan area, 28 days after the passage of hurricane Maria, in Catano, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. A month after Hurricane Maria rolled across the center of Puerto Rico, power is still out for the vast majority of people as the work to restore hundreds of miles of transmission lines and thousands of miles of distribution lines grinds on.

House panel blasts Puerto Rico power agency for trying to ‘discredit’ corruption probe

Josh Siegel March 28, 2018 10:24 pm

Conservative groups urge Scott Pruitt to block California from setting own car pollution rules

Josh Siegel March 28, 2018 9:53 pm

Environmental groups aim to ‘boot’ Scott Pruitt over ‘wasteful spending’ at EPA

Josh Siegel March 28, 2018 9:35 pm

EPA pressed to slow down on rolling back Obama-era vehicle fuel standards

Josh Siegel March 28, 2018 9:07 pm

Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation hearing on infrastructure on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

Rick Perry keeps being mentioned as a possible new VA secretary. Would he really leave Energy?

John Siciliano March 28, 2018 4:20 pm

Free-market group urges FERC to defend grid from companies looking to game the system

John Siciliano March 28, 2018 3:00 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, May 30, 2017.

Russia-Saudi ‘permanent’ oil alliance won’t scare US shale

Josh Siegel March 28, 2018 4:01 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt talks during a hearing.

Scott Pruitt teams up with Israeli company on water supply

John Siciliano March 27, 2018 10:48 pm

Cars and trucks move along Interstate 5. Washington state regulators released an updated plan Wednesday to limit greenhouse gas emissions from large polluters. Also on Wednesday, Gov. Jay Inslee joined leaders from Oregon, California and British Columbia in San Francisco to sign a climate agreement that includes encouraging the use of zero-emissions vehicles.

California considering retaliation if EPA weakens vehicle fuel-efficiency rules

Josh Siegel March 27, 2018 5:20 pm