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

U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker had filed a subpoena to try to get information about Exxon Mobil's donations to the Competitive Enterprise Institute between 1997 and 2007. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg, File)

Virgin Islands relents on think tank subpoena

Kyle Feldscher May 23, 2016 4:40 pm

"He's got his head on right," Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., reportedly said of Donald Trump during a speech Monday at the annual Virginia Coal and Energy Alliance conference. (AP Photo)

Coal giant backs Trump: He’s ‘the horse to ride’

Gabby Morrongiello, Kyle Feldscher May 23, 2016 4:37 pm

State attorneys general Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia and Ken Paxton of Texas, who are leading 30 states in a lawsuit opposing the Clean Power Plan, released a letter pressing the agency's clean air chief to cease all action and follow the law. (AP Photos)

State AGs call on EPA to stop working on stayed climate rules

John Siciliano May 23, 2016 3:54 pm

Agriculture has a long history in Hawaii, usually in large, plantation-style farms that export pineapples and other tropical fruit to the mainland and abroad. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Hawaii starts to look beyond the pineapple

Kyle Feldscher May 23, 2016 4:01 am

In this Oct. 6, 2015, photo, military veteran Mark Cannon, of Miami, right, talks with Cynthia Carcillo, a veterans outreach representative for Career Source Broward, about employment opportunities at a job fair for veterans, in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The Labor Department reported Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, that fewer Americans sought unemployment aid a week earlier, fresh evidence that companies are confident enough in the economy to hold onto their workers. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Oil and gas industry tries to lure veterans

Kyle Feldscher May 23, 2016 4:01 am

Dixon Golf came into the crosshairs of the big daddy of golf ball companies, Massachusetts-based Titleist, for stealing the dimpled-pattern design of the iconic balls. (Image courtesy screenshot)

‘Dimplegate:’ The big daddy of golf balls slices at green challenger

John Siciliano May 23, 2016 4:01 am

"In the United States, when you do important work, people will sue you. That's the way it works," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. (Screen shot)

EPA boss: Clean Power Plan ‘will restore your faith in government’

Daniel Chaitin May 21, 2016 8:43 pm

The Obama administration is weighing new rules to stop bankrupt coal companies from passing on the cost of mine cleanups onto consumers. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Coal industry fuming over Obama’s proposed cleanup rules

John Siciliano May 20, 2016 9:28 pm

Trump to announce energy policy soon

John Siciliano May 20, 2016 6:22 pm

Steyer worried about growing Trump support

John Siciliano May 20, 2016 4:20 pm

An assessment finds that energy from wind and solar rises by between 10 and 20 gigawatts over the next 15 years, while the power from coal plants drops by as much as 27 gigawatts as a result of the Environmental Protection Agency's climate plan, the report concludes. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Grid watchdog: Coal use falls faster under Obama climate plan

John Siciliano May 19, 2016 8:43 pm

The country's economy is being left to the whims of cartels, said Dennis Blair. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Former spy chief: OPEC working to kill off U.S. oil production

John Siciliano May 19, 2016 6:37 pm