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

The Flint River water, however, was so acidic that it caused the lead pipes bringing water from the city's cast iron mains into homes to corrode. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Flint lawmaker not giving up on aid

Kyle Feldscher April 14, 2016 6:16 pm

King Cove residents are pushing for a one-lane road through a refuge so they can reach the nearest town. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Remote Alaskan town begs Congress for road

Kyle Feldscher April 14, 2016 5:19 pm

The new safety rules are the administration's response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Obama to issue landmark offshore oil and gas rules

John Siciliano April 14, 2016 4:33 pm

Measure includes a number of riders that seek to hobble the EPA's contentious Waters of the U.S. rule. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File)

House confronts EPA overreach in energy spending bill

John Siciliano April 13, 2016 11:52 pm

"Attorney General Walker's allegation amounts to little more than a weak pretext for an unlawful exercise of government power," the filing states. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Exxon Mobil: Subpoena over climate change ‘abuse of government power’

Kyle Feldscher April 13, 2016 8:53 pm

"Simply put, this is environmental racism," the Clinton campaign said in describing the new policy position. "And the impacts of climate change, from more severe storms to longer heat waves to rising sea levels, will disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities, which suffer the worst losses during extreme weather and have the fewest resources to prepare." (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Clinton seeks to combat ‘environmental racism’

John Siciliano April 13, 2016 8:03 pm

From left, EPA Office of Water Deputy Assistant Administrator Joel Beauvais, Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Nicole Lurie, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Director Keith Creagh, and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, speak on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Spend more on infrastructure, Congress told

Kyle Feldscher April 13, 2016 7:00 pm

—œOur 21st century energy revolution has made America the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world while helping us lower costs to consumers and lead the world in reducing carbon emissions,—? said the president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file)

Big Oil targets parties’ platform panels in new policy push

John Siciliano April 13, 2016 6:40 pm

Newspapers, starved for cash and content, eagerly reprint advocacy journalism with little fact-checking. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Think tank calls subpoena a ‘crimethink persecution’

Sean Higgins April 13, 2016 4:48 pm

Democrats in states dependent on fossil fuels are not feeling the Bern. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Dem: ‘I think Bernie might be naked living in the trees’

John Siciliano April 13, 2016 4:43 pm

The world's biggest private coal company, Peabody Energy, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday morning, the company announced. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

World’s largest private coal company files for bankruptcy

Kyle Feldscher April 13, 2016 12:46 pm

(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Grandstanding AGs vs. free speech

Washington Examiner April 13, 2016 4:01 am