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President Joe Biden plans to announce limits on oil leasing in Arctic waters and sensitive areas of Alaska on Monday, taking steps to expand conservation as his administration prepares to approve a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil development in the region. → Read More
Long before this month’s fiery derailment, railroad industry leaders battled regulations meant to boost freight train safety, including plans to bolster some of the very same tank cars that ruptured and released chemicals in eastern Ohio. → Read More
Dead whales keep washing up on the US Atlantic coast. A coalition of wind opponents, environmentalists and conservatives are blaming offshore wind. → Read More
The Biden administration is opening the door to a sweeping rewrite of the 17-year-old US biofuel mandate, including a plan to encourage use of renewable natural gas to power electric vehicles, which could benefit Tesla Inc. and other automakers. → Read More
Mexico is boosting its Paris Agreement pledge and vowing to cut greenhouse gas emissions 35% by the end of the decade, after environmentalists panned its earlier promise as insufficient. → Read More
President Joe Biden pressed his “unwavering” commitment to combating climate change and said the US is on track to achieve its Paris Agreement goals as he sought to allay concerns the country’s efforts would backslide after the midterm elections. → Read More
Despite a formal suspension of bilateral negotiations, the top climate envoys from China and the US have quietly traded some messages in hopes of resuming talks on curbing methane, combating deforestation and accelerating the green transition. “We’ve sent each other a few messages trying to figure out how we might be able to resume” talks, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry… → Read More
Negotiations over compensation payments for climate damage in developing countries will become a key test at next month’s COP27 gathering → Read More
The Biden administration is moving toward a release of at least another 10 million to 15 million barrels of oil from the nation’s emergency stockpile in a bid to balance markets and keep gasoline prices from climbing further, according to people familiar with the matter. The move would effectively represents the tail end of a program announced in the spring to release a total of 180 million… → Read More
High prices pose a political risk at home, but allies abroad are desperate for aid. → Read More
Bewildered Biden administration officials hunkered down Thursday in the wake of a shock oil production cut by Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ allies, hoping that crude prices don’t surge before November elections and end Democratic control of Congress. → Read More
The US president’s decision to skip informal talks in New York comes as global turmoil threatens to overshadow climate disasters at this week’s United Nations meeting → Read More
President Joe Biden won temporary permission to once again pause energy leasing on federal lands and waters, after a US appeals court found a trial judge’s order against the moratorium too vague to review. → Read More
The billionaire philanthropist was among those lobbying Joe Manchin, starting before Biden took the White House. A look at the influencers who secured a rare climate win. → Read More
The US Justice Department is investigating Houston’s response to complaints of illegal dumping amid allegations that the city moved too slowly on reports of abandoned mattresses, tires and even dead bodies in Black and Latino communities. → Read More
The House passed legislation Thursday that offshore wind developers say poses an existential threat to the nascent industry in the US. → Read More
With the country one hurricane away from another price surge, President Biden faces two dilemmas: A world short on oil and a nation short on capacity. → Read More
Biden is imposing two-year freeze on new tariffs for solar imports and invoking Defense Production Act to support US-made panels → Read More
President Joe Biden will take executive action to boost the US solar sector, seeking to revive clean energy projects stalled by a trade dispute and bolster domestic manufacturing so the nation’s climate efforts are less reliant on foreign suppliers. → Read More
Ethanol, the intoxicating alcohol found in beer, wine and liquor, has been powering automobiles in the U.S. since the era of the Model T more than a century ago. Since the 1970s, when oil became more expensive and subject to international disputes -- and as worries rose about the environmental damage caused by fossil fuels -- the U.S. government has used tax policy and regulations to encourage… → Read More