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.

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

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

Daily on Energy: EPA’s Scott Pruitt forces Tom Carper to stumble in yes-or-no questioning

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel January 30, 2018 4:25 pm

Most recently, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to remove the Canadian lynx from the list of threatened species. And a number of other species are set to go from endangered to threatened, according to the administration's regulatory agenda. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)

Endangered species law in Trump’s crosshairs

John Siciliano January 30, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump signed an executive order April 26 directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands, including Bears Ears National Monument, as he singled out "a massive federal land grab" by the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Democrats to pressure Ryan Zinke to ban mining, drilling in Bears Ears

Josh Siegel January 30, 2018 12:39 am

The results do not point to specific effects of climate change but do identify particular bases where extreme weather is already reported as a problem. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

50 percent of US military bases report climate extremes, new Pentagon study says

Travis J. Tritten January 29, 2018 11:24 pm

Sen. John Barrasso says he has placed a hold on Anne White's nomination until she can prove to him that she will work to stop countries such as Russia from undermining the U.S. uranium industry.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

John Barrasso holds up Trump energy nominee over uranium policy

John Siciliano January 29, 2018 8:45 pm

"At ExxonMobil, we plan to invest more than $50 billion over the next five years to expand our business in the United States. These investments are underpinned by the unique strengths of our company and enhanced by the historic tax reform recently signed into law," Chief Executive Office Darren Woods said. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan. File)

Exxon Mobil to spend $50 billion in US, citing Republican tax reform

Sean Higgins January 29, 2018 8:20 pm

According to a recent report, Volkswagen, with fellow German carmakers Daimler and BMW, paid for an experiment using monkeys in rigged studies meant to produce lower pollution levels. (iStock Photo)

Volkswagen apologizes for using monkeys in experiments to cheat emissions tests

Josh Siegel January 29, 2018 7:57 pm

EPA chief Scott Pruitt said his agency was freeing Arkansas from limits that the Obama administration tried to impose on the state when it rejected Arkansas' plan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EPA frees Arkansas from Obama-era coal restrictions

John Siciliano January 29, 2018 4:55 pm

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

Daily on Energy: Trump explains why he thinks climate change isn’t real

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel January 29, 2018 4:15 pm

The state of California is known for its stricter fuel efficiency standards.

EPA, California must compromise in their fight over weakened fuel-efficiency standards, experts say

Josh Siegel January 29, 2018 5:01 am

Trump claimed that the earth is simultaneously heating and cooling and therefore climate change is not happening. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Global warming isn’t happening because there’s ‘a cooling, and then there’s a heating’

Laura Barrón-López January 28, 2018 8:22 pm

Trump will call on Congress to get behind a bipartisan infrastructure funding program during his first State of the Union address, and he needs Democrats to get on board with the plan, his legislative director said Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump does not plan to gut environmental laws to pass infrastructure plan, aide says

Kyle Feldscher January 28, 2018 2:55 pm