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

People load in to a Daimler Freightliner Inspiration self-driving truck for a demonstration Wednesday, May 6, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump EPA eyes new rules to reduce air pollution from trucks

Abby Smith January 6, 2020 4:40 pm

Australia wildfires death toll rises to 23 as disaster reaches ‘an entirely new level’

Daniel Chaitin January 4, 2020 7:53 pm

Meat Loaf says Greta Thunberg has been ‘brainwashed’ into believing climate change is real

Spencer Neale January 4, 2020 3:08 pm

Saudi Arabia reported two of its oil tankers were attacked off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in attacks last May. One of them was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States.

Oil infrastructure at risk as Iran looks to avenge Soleimani’s death

Josh Siegel January 3, 2020 10:59 pm

$Joe Biden said he would allow "no new fracking" during Sunday night's Democratic debate$

Biden ‘100 percent’ supports nationwide plastic bag ban

Spencer Neale January 3, 2020 7:54 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Republicans seek a spot on the global climate stage

Abby Smith January 3, 2020 4:00 am

The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is the only large nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., after years of cost overruns and project delays.

German nuclear phaseout is causing 1,100 additional deaths a year: Study

Abby Smith January 2, 2020 4:22 pm

2020 presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, from left, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, stand on stage during the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. BidenÂ invoked the legacy of former president Barack Obama in arguing the expansive healthcare proposals fromÂ Warren and SandersÂ would be too costly for the nation.

How Democrats decided climate change was a campaign issue

Abby Smith December 31, 2019 5:00 am

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, of Sweden, addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly.

Greta Thunberg slams notion of meeting with Trump and claims he sees her ‘as a threat’

Spencer Neale December 30, 2019 9:39 pm

Swedish 15-year old climate activist, Greta Thunberg and her father Svante attend a press conference during the Climate Change Conference COP24 in Katowice , Poland, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018.

‘She didn’t eat for three months’: Greta Thunberg ‘stopped talking’ before activism

Spencer Neale December 30, 2019 5:57 pm

Former President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M.

The 2010s: When energy ‘scarcity’ became ‘abundance’

Josh Siegel December 28, 2019 5:00 am

California records lowest population growth since 1900

Spencer Neale December 23, 2019 6:28 pm