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

Higher oil prices will prompt output to climb 100,000 barrels more than previously forecast, agency says. (PRNewsFoto/Redhawk Investment Group, LLC, Shutterstock)

Feds: Oil industry will get relief next year

John Siciliano May 10, 2016 6:33 pm

Newer, efficient shipping routes have made it easier to produce yet-to-be-tapped oil, gas and mineral deposits. As such, the Arctic has emerged as a geopolitical hotbed. (AP Photo)Â

Big Oil gives up on 2.2 million acres of Arctic drilling

Kyle Feldscher May 10, 2016 4:40 pm

Former Flint official says mayor funneled lead water crisis donations to her PAC

Kyle Feldscher May 10, 2016 2:14 pm

Actor and activist Alec Baldwin fretted about those callous people who do not feel, as he does, that human beings are catastrophically altering the climate of the planet. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Ballistic Baldwin

James Wanliss May 10, 2016 4:02 am

The Republican leadership is calling for a vote on Wednesday on the amendment, with senior California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein saying she will work with the GOP majority to reach an agreement that addresses the GOP's concerns over Iran that enables the chamber to pass the spending bill. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Energy spending bill blocked over Iran

John Siciliano May 9, 2016 11:37 pm

The proposed coal terminal at Cherry Point has been part of a five-year fight between activists and pro-development interests over its approval. (AP Photo)

Feds hand greens ‘big’ victory over coal

John Siciliano May 9, 2016 10:40 pm

Oil companies have shut down production as families are evacuated from Fort McMurray and as the wildfires pose a risk to oil infrastructure. (AP Photo)

Don’t expect oil prices to spike from Canadian wildfire, experts say

Kyle Feldscher May 9, 2016 9:49 pm

In addition to declaring the bison the national mammal, the law enumerates the cultural, historical and economic importance of the bison to the U.S. (AP Photo)

We have a new national mammal: The bison

Kyle Feldscher May 9, 2016 8:14 pm

One of the major factors of the decrease in greenhouse gases is the switch from coal-based electricity to highly efficient gas-fired power plants. (AP Photo)

Feds point to fracked gas as reason for emissions reductions

John Siciliano May 9, 2016 3:07 pm

$Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle in western Colorado. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)$

How Colorado became ‘ground zero’ in the fracking fight

John Siciliano May 9, 2016 4:01 am

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is hopeful a conference between House and Senate members will lead to a deal similar to the one she reached with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., on the Senate bill. (AP Photo)

Energy bill could be victim of its own success

Kyle Feldscher May 9, 2016 4:01 am

Environmentalists vowed to stop Trump from entering the White House this week. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Greens declare war on Donald Trump

Kyle Feldscher May 8, 2016 4:01 am