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

In this 2013 photo, the Grand Canyon National Park is covered in the morning sunlight as seen from a helicopter near Tusayan, Ariz. A report from the Interior Department's inspector general on Tuesday noted that a manager at the park sexually harassed an intern and tried to pursue a relationship with said intern for several months. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Grand Canyon manager sexually harassed intern, inspector general says

Josh Siegel January 23, 2018 7:33 pm

The electric grid relied heavily on coal and nuclear power plants during January's deep freeze. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, file)

Energy Department: Deep freeze shows risks to grid from coal retirements

Josh Siegel January 23, 2018 6:55 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced on Monday that President Trump has approved substantial import tariffs on solar cells and modules. But if one wants the U.S. to install more solar cells, the tariffs will not help as they raise the price for this cleaner form of energy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Why the heck would we tax solar panel imports?

Tim Worstall January 23, 2018 6:39 pm

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

Daily on Energy: Next steps for solar industry on tariffs depend on Trump

John Siciliano, Josh Siegel January 23, 2018 4:24 pm

Porshe Loyd uses bottled water to wash her three-week-old son, LeAndrew, in a baby bather in the kitchen sink at their home in Flint, Mich., on Jan. 28, 2016. Improperly treated water leached lead from pipes into drinking water after Flint switched from Detroit's water system to the Flint River in 2014 to save money while under state financial management. (Todd McInturf/The Detroit News via AP)

EPA’s Scott Pruitt declares ‘war on lead,’ three years after Flint water crisis began

Josh Siegel January 23, 2018 5:01 am

Photovoltaic modules sit on a factory rooftop in Germany, where many of the company's primary investors are from. (Martin Leissl/Bloomberg)

A dangerous precedent on trade, brought to you by solar panel tariffs

Bryan Riley January 23, 2018 3:03 am

Four months after Hurricane Maria rolled across the center of Puerto Rico, power is still out for nearly 30 percent of people as the work to restore miles of transmission and distribution lines grinds on. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Puerto Rico to privatize bankrupt power utility

Josh Siegel January 22, 2018 10:55 pm

This was a very short-sighted decision. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Trump imposes tariffs on solar panels

Josh Siegel January 22, 2018 10:05 pm

The waiver would allow the administration to begin replacing vehicle barriers with bollard walls along a 20-mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border west of El Paso, Texas, at the New Mexico land border port. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

DHS waives more than 30 environmental laws to speed Trump’s border wall

John Siciliano January 22, 2018 10:00 pm

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website is effectively shut down, making its climate change and weather web-based data unavailable until appropriations enable the website to publicly available.

NOAA’s climate change website goes dark under shutdown

John Siciliano January 22, 2018 8:04 pm

The Interior Department will announce new dates for the hearings of the controversial offshore drilling plan when the government resumes normal operations. The hearings were scheduled, Monday through Thursday, in Augusta, Maine; Baton Rouge, La.; Anchorage, Alaska; Concord, N.H.; Boston; Montgomery, Ala.; and Providence, R.I.

Shutdown forces delay of hearings on Trump offshore drilling plan

Josh Siegel January 22, 2018 7:25 pm

Since 2012, Philadelphia Energy Solutions has spent $800 million to comply with the Renewable Fuels Standard, which forces refiners to blend a certain amount of biofuels into the fuel supply or to purchase credits. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Flyover country farmers and DC bureaucrats push Philadelphia refinery into bankruptcy

Philip Wegmann January 22, 2018 6:07 pm