Department of Energy

Energy and Environment

EPA chief to investors: We need more gas pipelines

September 3, 2014 9:00 am

Electricity prices for the first half of this year increased the most in a year-over-year basis since 2009, according the Energy Department's statistics arm.ÃÂ (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

Electricity prices rise most since 2009

Zack Colman -

September 2, 2014 3:42 pm

Mexican oil firm Pemex is poised to enter joint ventures with U.S.-based companies. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

Energy and Environment

Reforms could boost Mexican oil production 75 percent, says Energy Department’s statistics arm

Zack Colman -

August 25, 2014 4:26 pm

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Majorie Roxby Mascheroni, were sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to violate the Atomic Energy Act by

National Security

Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela

Kelly Cohen -

August 23, 2014 10:00 am

The federal government's energy numbers crunchers are close to finishing a study that would provide some clarity on whether ending a 39-year-old ban on exporting crude oil would affect gasoline prices. (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

The feds are trying to connect the dots on gas prices and crude oil exports

Zack Colman -

August 18, 2014 4:42 pm

A worker fills his truck with natural gas. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

The Energy Department is stepping out of the way on natural gas exports. So why isn’t the industry happy?

Zack Colman -

August 15, 2014 9:00 am

$Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md. The company used the liquefied natural gas terminal on the Chesapeake Bay to import natural gas for years. Now, thanks to a boom in natural gas fueled by hydraulic fracturing, Dominion has contracts to export natural gas to Japan and India. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)$