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

Rescuers remove a plastic bag containing the body of a tsunami victim from the back of a truck in Carita, Indonesia, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. The tsunami occurred after the eruption of a volcano around Indonesia's Sunda Strait during a busy holiday weekend, sending water crashing ashore and sweeping away hotels, hundreds of houses and people attending a beach concert.

Indonesia tsunami claims more than 220 lives

Allison Elyse Gualtieri December 23, 2018 6:38 pm

This June 13, 2014, file photo shows construction on a new nuclear reactor at Plant Vogtle power plant in Waynesboro, Ga.

Congress passes bipartisan bill to boost advanced nuclear energy

Josh Siegel December 21, 2018 11:32 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: Greens go on the offensive against Trump’s wall as shutdown looms

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel December 21, 2018 4:45 pm

President Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for H.R. 2, the "Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018," in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House complex, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018, in Washington.

Trump signs farm bill that backs climate change programs, avoids food stamp cuts

John Siciliano December 20, 2018 10:41 pm

Republicans in Congress have long pressed to allow energy exploration in a 1.5 million-acre section of the Alaskan refuge, where billions of barrels of oil lie beneath the refuge's coastal plain. (AP Photo/Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, File)

Trump takes big step toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge

Josh Siegel December 20, 2018 7:40 pm

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

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: Trump claims early victories in weaning Europe off Russian energy

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel December 20, 2018 4:56 pm

Activists protest at bronze doors of the Supreme Court after the confirmation vote of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on Capitol Hill, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in Washington.

Democrats reap the whirlwind of their mob mentality

Harlan Hill December 20, 2018 4:17 pm

President Donald Trump speaks the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Dec. 7, 2018.

Trump should tweet about the actual Russian collusion with US environmentalists

Kevin Mooney December 20, 2018 1:30 pm

Trump administration claims early success in weaning Europe off Russian energy

John Siciliano December 20, 2018 5:00 am

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., speak to reporters about their effort to bring up legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018.

Sens. Jeff Flake and Chris Coons introduce bipartisan carbon tax bill

Josh Siegel December 19, 2018 9:15 pm

Marco Rubio, Ed Markey

Sens. Marco Rubio and Ed Markey team up to deny Saudi Arabia nuclear energy

John Siciliano December 19, 2018 7:59 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: Trump continues to look to Warsaw to displace Russian energy in Europe

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel December 19, 2018 5:33 pm