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

Senate Republicans argue that progressives' Green New Deal would be impossible and unaffordable

Josh Siegel December 11, 2018 10:09 pm

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

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: Trump’s EPA rolls back Obama-era ‘puddle’ rule

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel December 11, 2018 5:19 pm

This Oct. 30, 2017 photo shows a notice warning visitors of controlled-fire operations in Kings Canyon National Park, Calif. Californiaâs seemingly endless cycle of wildfires is helping drive plans to do more âcontrolled burnsâ that thin forests choked with dead trees and withered underbrush that if left unchecked can feed monster blazes that force entire communities to flee, destroy homes and take lives. The goal for 2018 is to burn at least 20,000 acres and to clear another 20,000 by crews using chain saws, bulldozers and other machinery.

Farm bill a mixed bag for supporters of forest thinning to help stop wildfires

Josh Siegel December 11, 2018 4:35 pm

A fishing boat cruises on the Milwaukee River near Lake Michigan.

Trump’s EPA rolls back Obama-era ‘puddle’ rule

John Siciliano December 11, 2018 4:30 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, file photo firefighters work to keep flames from spreading through the Shadowbrook apartment complex as a wildfire burns through Paradise, Calif. Authorities say the fire is 95 percent contained Thursday, Nov. 22. The blaze that started Nov. 8 leveled Paradise, killing multiple people and destroyed more than 13,000 homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

California, feds, green groups partner on more logging to stop deadly wildfires

Josh Siegel December 11, 2018 5:00 am

In this Nov. 16, 2015, photograph, an overview shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss.

Carbon capture industry says Trump EPA is wrong to underestimate them

Josh Siegel December 11, 2018 5:00 am

Smoke billows from a chimney of the Solvay factory for production and process of plastic materials, in Ospiate, near Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. The climate change conference, COP24, is under way in Katowice, Poland, from Dec. 2-14, 2018.

Poland’s ‘Solidarity’ union joins forces with US climate change skeptics

Kevin Mooney December 10, 2018 7:51 pm

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks to his supporters.

Progressives freak out about a coal-country lawmaker overseeing federal energy policy

Philip Wegmann December 10, 2018 6:06 pm

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk during the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam.

State Department: Anti-Russia energy policy isn’t about US greed

Joel Gehrke December 10, 2018 5:19 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: John Kelly’s departure could embolden Trump on energy

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel December 10, 2018 5:12 pm

Start prepping! Electric grid ‘prime target’ of terrorists, ‘profound threat,’ says council

Paul Bedard December 10, 2018 3:23 pm

Youth and indigenous groups protest against fossil fuels during US-hosted event at the UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, as the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference takes place in the city.

Protesters crash US-led coal event at UN: ‘Shame on you’

Josh Siegel December 10, 2018 1:22 pm