Energy and Environment

Congressional Progressive Caucus members.

Progressive Caucus announces opposition to permitting bill over environmental law reforms

Callie Patteson · November 11, 2026 9:48 am

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

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.

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

Measure to overhaul California’s bedrock environmental law fails

If the U.S. expects to compete in the global LNG market, Congress should pass legislation to create a more certain regulatory process for processing and issuing LNG export permits. (AP Photo/Matt Houston)

Trump tax cuts giving pipeline industry heartburn

John Siciliano February 5, 2018 11:57 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt invited Cabinet members to a Feb. 15 meeting to discuss a strategy to update the nation's water infrastructure. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pruitt asks Cabinet to help him with ‘war on lead’ in drinking water

Josh Siegel February 5, 2018 9:45 pm

Newly released footage shows EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in February 2016 saying he was "concerned" about then-candidate Donald Trump winning the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Scott Pruitt called Trump an ’empty vessel’ on the Constitution in 2016 interview

Melissa Quinn February 5, 2018 9:40 pm

An environmental group told Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that he risks going to court if he continues to delay the submission of a climate study to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Sebastian Pani)

Rex Tillerson in the crosshairs of green group’s court threats

John Siciliano February 5, 2018 7:09 pm

Trump may not support Obama climate deal on coolants

Josh Siegel February 5, 2018 6:15 pm

Daily on Energy: Utility industry descends on Washington with an ax to grind

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John Siciliano, Josh Siegel February 5, 2018 4:23 pm

Myron Ebell, Trump's EPA transition chief, and the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's energy and environment office, has petitioned "the EPA to re-open the endangerment finding," he told the Washington Examiner in an email. Ebell is part of an effort by anti-climate change hawks to get rid of a finding that gives the EPA broad authority to regulate greenhouse gases. (AP Photo)

Anti-climate change hawks have a bone to pick with Trump, too

John Siciliano February 5, 2018 5:01 am

The White House said Sunday that Kathleen Hartnett White asked that her name be pulled from consideration for the position. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Trump pulls nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White for top environmental post

Josh Siegel February 4, 2018 6:53 pm

This 2010 picture shows the large square building that houses the nuclear reactor at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey Township, N.J. The facility was scheduled to close on December 2019, but now the plant will shut down ahead of schedule in October. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Nuclear plant to close ahead of schedule

John Siciliano February 2, 2018 7:43 pm

Daily on Energy: Utility industry descends on Washington with an ax to grind

Daily on Energy: Trump’s rollback of Utah monuments official

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel February 2, 2018 4:18 pm

President Trump holds up a signed proclamation to shrink the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The proclamation cuts Bears Ears by more than 1.1 million acres, or 85 percent, and creates two smaller monuments instead. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Trump’s Utah monuments rollback takes effect, allows new mining, drilling claims

Josh Siegel February 2, 2018 3:09 pm

A new Interior Department policy would change the Master Lease Plans, developed under the Obama administration, which placed strict limits on the types of activities allowed on public lands. (iStock)

Trump guts Obama policy to open up drilling on public lands

John Siciliano February 1, 2018 11:17 pm