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

An agent comforts the siblings by the fort they made from disposable mylar blankets.

Oil CEO and Trump donor Dan Eberhart says the shale boom gives Trump an edge

John Siciliano September 25, 2018 12:01 am

A guide holds up a damaged and dying butterfly at the monarch butterfly reserve in Piedra Herrada, Mexico, on Nov. 12, 2015.

Congress to release 50 monarch butterflies into the air Tuesday

Anna Giaritelli, John Siciliano September 24, 2018 9:43 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by CRES: Oil prices and Trump’s Iran diplomacy hover over UN meeting

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel September 24, 2018 4:20 pm

Capitalism can solve the climate change problem

Charles Hernick September 24, 2018 4:00 am

Jane Goodall, Primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace, is greeted on stage by singer Dave Matthews during the Global Action Climate Summit.

A global warming summit that made no fracking sense

Drew Johnson September 24, 2018 4:00 am

Officials attend a news conference after a meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC members at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 23, 2018.

Trump haunts OPEC with demand for lower oil and gas prices

Josh Siegel September 23, 2018 4:00 am

Farmers work their fields outside the Sungri Chemical Factory, an oil refinery in the Rason Special Economic Zone near North Korea's Russian and Chinese borders that dates back to 1973 but has been idle in recent years.

US to start ‘disrupting’ North Korean oil smuggling

Joel Gehrke September 22, 2018 9:32 pm

Replacement water pipes sit at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission sight were workers are removing dirt from around a defective 4-1/2 water main in District Heights, Md.

US drinking water supply is at risk from deteriorating pipes

Bonner Cohen September 22, 2018 4:00 am

Smoke rises from the stacks of the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz.

Trump administration to search for new buyer for largest coal plant in the West after setback

John Siciliano September 21, 2018 10:59 pm

In this Sept. 19, 2018, photo released by Cape Fear River Watch, an earth mover is used to repair one of several breaches in a ruptured coal ash landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C. The landfill under construction at the site meant to hold coal ash in lined terraces ruptured over the weekend from heavy rains from Hurricane Florence, spilling enough material to fill 180 dump trucks. Coal ash contains arsenic, mercury and other toxic metals.

Hurricane Florence flooding could spill coal ash into North Carolina’s Cape Fear River

Josh Siegel September 21, 2018 4:56 pm

Daily on Energy, presented by GAIN: Florence flooding could spill coal ash into Cape Fear River

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel September 21, 2018 4:48 pm

Arizonans might vote to double their own electric bills

Derek Hunter September 21, 2018 4:00 am