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The Biden administration is making $500 million available to school districts to transition the nation’s gas-guzzling diesel school bus fleets to zero-emission electric busses.
Extreme heat and drought could tax the power grid and lead to blackouts this summer, federal officials are warning.
President Biden’s blame-Putin strategy on inflation is deeply flawed, experts say, because casting blame does not relieve Mr. Biden and congressional Democrats of the responsibility to fix the problem.
Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo pushed back Wednesday against bipartisan criticism that the agency has cast a shadow over the solar industry.
The solar industry has sounded the alarm that a Commerce Department investigation into whether China is skirting U.S. tariffs on components used to produce solar panels by funneling the parts through other countries could seriously jeopardize clean energy projects across the nation.
Drivers are paying an all-time high for gasoline, with prices setting a record Tuesday despite White House efforts to bring down energy costs heading into the midterm elections.
New York City officials say a lithium-ion battery charging in a bike shop caused a major fire Monday in Queens, making it the latest blaze sparked by batteries for e-bikes and scooters.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday the launch of a new Justice Department office to advance President Biden’s environmental justice agenda.
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in production, even as Europe’s proposed phaseout of Russian oil threatens to yank millions of barrels off a global market already thirsty for crude.
The European Union’s top official on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia and target the country’s biggest bank and major broadcasters in a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow for its war in Ukraine.
A body inside a barrel was found over the weekend on the newly exposed bottom of Nevada’s Lake Mead as drought depletes one of the largest U.S. reservoirs — and officials predicted the discovery could be just the first of more grim finds.
Germany has made significant headway already in cutting its dependence on Russian fossil fuels since the start of the Ukrainian invasion in February, officials said Sunday.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly anxious about how to show voters they are taking aggressive action to deflate swelled gasoline prices, even if that means voting on legislation that would likely not bear results.
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency waiver to allow higher-ethanol gasoline blends to be sold in the summer, in the Biden administration’s latest bid to lower gas prices.
Top Democrats on Capitol Hill on Thursday said they are putting the final touches on legislation that would require the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Big Oil is ripping off Americans at the pump.
President Biden reasserted himself Friday as a global leader on climate change, delivering a speech in Seattle commemorating Earth Day and rebutting left-wing activists who say he’s ceded ground in the climate change fight.
It took all of 30 seconds for Ohio state regulators to deliver another nail in the coffin of a $92 million wind farm proposal that had been years in the making.
Environmental advocates never expected to find themselves in this position. They’re still fighting for the same policies they were on President Biden’s first day in office and seeing him roll back the meager wins they thought they scored. Many now question Mr. Biden’s commitment to climate change.
President Biden is taking steps to restore national forests that have been devastated by wildfires, drought and blight, using an Earth Day visit to Seattle to sign an executive order protecting some of the nation’s largest and oldest trees.
Environmental advocacy groups believe they have discovered a missing piece of the puzzle to passing climate-friendly policies: challenging state political maps.
The Biden administration announced Tuesday it reimplemented core protections to an environmental law on infrastructure projects, a climate-related regulation that former President Donald Trump had rolled back.
Sixteen Republican state attorneys general want the Biden administration to reverse course and resume construction of the Keystone XL pipeline following a report that U.S. officials want to increase oil imports from Canada to blunt prices at the pump, but without a new pipeline.
The Biden administration is under fire for opening the door to selling new leases on public lands for oil and natural gas drilling but at a higher cost to producers, resulting in opposition from climate groups and the energy industry alike.
Wind turbines just achieved a major milestone: out-producing coal and nuclear electricity generation for the first time in U.S. history.
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz’s past positions on energy and the environment embraced a liberal outlook, putting him at odds with his pro-drilling campaign for the Republican nomination in a state at the forefront of natural-gas fracking.
Firefighters took advantage of a brief break in the weather but gusty winds were expected to return Friday to southern New Mexico where a wildfire has claimed two lives and charred more than 200 homes.
Amazon is instituting a 5% fee to help combat rising inflation and fuel prices.
Council members in Pittsburgh have voted unanimously to ban single-use plastic bags at businesses in a year.
President Biden will announce Tuesday that he is temporarily removing restrictions on summer sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends, making an attempt to lower fuel costs for U.S. consumers.
The majority of voters are blaming increased prices at the pump on Russian President Vladimir Putin and oil companies more than energy policies from President Biden and Democrats, according to a new poll.
It’s the overlooked — often forgotten — petroleum product left out of Democrats’ clean energy agenda: plastics.
Climate change activists on Friday shut down traffic on Interstate 395 for the second time this week, demanding that President Biden declare a climate emergency.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to strong-arm the Biden administration to advance GOP priorities on several policy fronts — including energy — if Republicans retake control of the upper chamber next year.
More than a million customers in Puerto Rico remained without electricity on Thursday after a fire at a main power plant caused the biggest blackout so far this year across the U.S. territory, forcing it to cancel classes and shutter government offices.
The executives of major oil companies rebuffed calls from Democrats on Wednesday to reduce shareholder returns to blunt pain at the pump.
Chevron CEO Michael Wirth is coming out swinging Wednesday in front of House Democrats who accuse oil company executives of price gouging.
House Democrats are set to grill executives from the biggest oil companies on Wednesday with accusations that corporate greed is to blame for sky-high gasoline prices — but the executives have another plan.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday that there is a “total determination” from all 27 European Union countries for sanctions against Russia that could target oil and coal over evidence its troops deliberately killed Ukrainian civilians.
The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee requested that the panel’s chair call on President Biden’s son, Hunter, to testify before the panel at an upcoming hearing.
The Department of Transportation on Friday increased fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles that will begin next year as part of the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda, a move that reversed a decision by former President Trump to roll back regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
President Biden on Thursday took the unprecedented step of releasing 1 million barrels of oil per day from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, his most aggressive bid yet to soothe Americans who are seething about soaring gasoline prices.
President Biden’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. will release nearly 200 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the next several months was met with skepticism from Republicans, energy experts and even some in his own party.
President Biden will release a record 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to control soaring energy prices that are rapidly becoming a political headache for Democrats ahead of midterms.
Poland announced steps Wednesday to end all Russian oil imports by the end of 2022, as Germany issued a warning over natural gas supplies and called on consumers to conserve energy in a sign of escalating economic tensions in Europe over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
President Biden is looking to countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil, even as he seeks to throttle drilling near New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, much to the frustration of Navajo Nation members like Ervin Chavez.
The executives of three major oil companies have refused a request from Democratic lawmakers to testify before Congress about the spikes in energy prices.
ANALYSIS: The Indian government has refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the New Delhi government also is purchasing Russian oil, undercutting U.S. and Western efforts to create a united front of democracies to confront Moscow for its military aggression.
The race is on to produce more lithium in the United States.
Moscow’s war against Ukraine coupled with record increases in energy prices was a recipe for a global comeback in coal, upending climate change plans around the world.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday called on global energy exporters to boost oil and natural gas production to dampen Russia’s influence over global markets.
An independent energy regulatory agency has backpedaled on its previous decision to invoke environmental regulations for new natural gas projects.
U.S. President Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a deal Friday to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas.
Prices of gasoline in some parts of the nation are literally shocking. Consider that the current average price per gallon in San Luis Obispo, California is now $6.08 per gallon according to GasBuddy.com, a very nimble industry source. Similar prices are found throughout the Golden State — and elsewhere to various degrees across the U.S.
Republicans are capitalizing on high prices at the pump across the country to target four states controlled by Democrats where the party believes it can make substantial political gains at the local and state levels.