Energy and Environment

After all of the controversy over President Trump's decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, not one entity has shown up to file a permit application. The remoteness of the area, combined with the reality that few energy-resource deposits exist, provides extraction companies little to no motivation for developing the area. (U.S. Bureau of Land Management via Wikimedia Commons)

Trump proposal to sell off public lands sparks bipartisan outrage

Callie Patteson · November 12, 2026 4:26 pm

At Constellation's nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island, called the Crane Clean Energy Center, near Middletown, Pa., the cooling towers are reflected in the Susquehanna River.

House advances six bills to expand nuclear energy

KEI-01 at a farm hauling hay

Toyota set for US production of tiny ‘kei’ trucks admired by Trump, with a catch

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asking questions at a hearing

In first for a GOP senator, Hawley calls for data center moratorium

Governor Gavin Newsom holds still as First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsroom places a voter sticker on his lapel after casting their ballots on Election Day.

Gavin Newsom turns his eye toward Turkey climate summit, slamming Trump for not attending

Oil companies continued to cease offshore operations and evacuate personnel on Thursday in preparation for Tropical Storm Harvey becoming a full-blown hurricane. The tropical storm is expected to intensify into an category 3 hurricane by Friday morning, as it heads directly for the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Oil industry evacuates, ceases production as Harvey approaches

John Siciliano August 24, 2017 11:43 pm

The interior secretary expressed his frustration with how the 1906 Antiquities Act is used in designating national monuments. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)

Ryan Zinke, Republicans push for curbing Antiquities Act

Josh Siegel August 24, 2017 9:09 pm

The nation's top electric grid watchdog is carefully considering the recommendations made in the Energy Department's grid study issued late Wednesday night, according to the chairman of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

FERC chairman ‘carefully considering’ grid study’s recommendations

John Siciliano August 24, 2017 5:41 pm

Pilot project for clean-coal plants comes less than 24 hours after the release of a major grid study that recommends helping ailing coal plants. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Trump administration offers $50 million to build two clean coal plants

John Siciliano August 24, 2017 5:06 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he would urge Trump to shrink a "handful" of the monuments, although he did not specify which ones. (AP Photo/Patrick Whittle)

Ryan Zinke recommends shrinking, not eliminating, some national monuments

Josh Siegel August 24, 2017 3:33 pm

$A much-anticipated Energy Department study of the electric grid released Wednesday night points to abundant natural gas from fracking as the leading cause for the decline in coal and nuclear power plants and calls on federal agencies to make changes that would stave off the loss of more coal-fired and nuclear power plants. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)$

Grid study: Natural gas the leading cause for decline of coal, not renewables

John Siciliano August 24, 2017 2:00 am

Nine states agreed on a plan Wednesday to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent between 2020 and 2030. The pact includes New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Nine states plan to cut carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030 to combat climate change

Josh Siegel August 23, 2017 7:51 pm

The lawsuit from the conservative watchdog group charges that the Obama administration and environmentalists worked "hand-in-glove" to try to stop the pipeline's construction. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Judicial Watch files lawsuit for communications with environmental groups on Dakota Access pipeline

Josh Siegel August 23, 2017 7:49 pm

Daniel Kammen, who serves as a distinguished professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley, posted his letter on Twitter and said Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville "enables racism, sexism, and harms our country and planet."

State Department science envoy leaves a hidden message while resigning after Trump’s Charlottesville comments

Melissa Quinn August 23, 2017 4:00 pm

Shares in Chevron went up about 35 percent since Watson took over as CEO in January 2010.

Chevron’s CEO stepping down by end of next month

Josh Siegel August 23, 2017 2:01 am

Energy Transfer, suing in U.S. District Court in North Dakota, claims the environmental groups committed racketeering and defamation that increased the cost of construction by at least $300 million. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In federal lawsuit, builder of Dakota Access Pipeline claims environmental groups incited eco-terrorism

Josh Siegel August 23, 2017 1:33 am

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not properly weigh the effects of climate change. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Environmentalists win ‘huge’ climate victory over federal pipeline approvals

John Siciliano August 22, 2017 9:32 pm