Energy

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is urging the Supreme Court to allow local governments to continue suing oil companies they accuse of deceiving the public about their fuels contributing to climate change. The oil companies and Republican state attorneys general... Read More

TORONTO (AP) — The premier of Canada's most populous province said Wednesday he will cut off energy to the United States if President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on all Canadian products. Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tax on all... Read More

WASHINGTON — The methods currently used to predict the lifecycles of electric vehicle batteries may be just fine for laboratory applications, but they’re apparently dramatically underestimating how long these batteries last when subject to normal use by real-world drivers, a... Read More

WASHINGTON — It has become a common sight in the skies over the District of Columbia in recent days — that blue-and-white (with a splash of yellow) helicopter that seems to spend the day repeatedly crossing slowly back and forth... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday plans to proceed with three oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico over the next five years. Initially announced in December 2023, as part of the Department... Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook’s parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, the company said Wednesday, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of... Read More

WASHINGTON — Constellation Energy, the company that’s reopening the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania to provide power to Microsoft, is once again tops among privately or investor-owned power producers when it comes to low carbon dioxide emissions.... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to create a National Energy Council that he says will establish American “energy dominance” around the world as he seeks to boost U.S. oil and gas drilling and move away from President Joe Biden’s... Read More

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that $10 million in funding is now available to advance clean heating and cooling technology for use in large buildings across the state. The state’s new Clean Heat for All:... Read More

DETROIT (AP) — If President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his threat to kill federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases, it's likely that fewer buyers will choose EVs. Yet tax credits or not, auto companies show no intention of... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has awarded $2.2 billion to two regional hydrogen hubs intended to accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of the clean energy resource. The two awardees — Gulf Coast H2Hub and Midwest H2Hub — are part of... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is seeking public comment on the future development of five offshore wind lease areas off California’s central and north coasts. The request for comment follows the agency’s publication of a Draft Programmatic... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, Donald Trump's choice for Energy secretary, is a strong supporter of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of the president-elect’s quest for U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market. Wright... Read More

WASHINGTON — A bill that would dramatically ramp up lease sales for geothermal development could be headed to the House floor later this week. The bill, H.R. 1449, otherwise known as the Committing Leases for Energy Access Now Act, is... Read More

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A battery manufacturer has selected Kentucky for a nearly $712 million project to produce industrial-sized batteries used to store and distribute energy, a process seen as increasingly important to help secure a reliable electric grid for... Read More

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Good or bad, the United Nations climate negotiations process itself became the focus of the international talks that aim to curb warming from coal, oil and natural gas. Environmental advocates released reports Friday decrying fossil fuel... Read More

WASHINGTON — Advocates for the biofuel sector are celebrating President-elect Donald Trump’s victory at the polls, and South Dakota Sen. John Thune’s elevation to Senate majority leader as huge pluses for the ethanol industry. During his first term as president,... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration. The Environmental Protection... Read More

WILLIAMS, Ariz. — The Grand Canyon Railway, which has been providing tourists with scenic adventures into its namesake national park since 1901, has been awarded a $3.4 million grant to convert one of its classic diesel locomotives into one running... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press called the 2024 race for the White House at 5:34 a.m. last Wednesday morning, and almost immediately, word of Donald Trump’s election victory ignited a sell off of renewable energy stocks. As the stock market... Read More

ORANGE, Conn. — Avangrid, the New England-based energy services and delivery company, has secured two of the lease areas recently put up for auction for offshore wind development by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. As recently reported by The... Read More

SPRING, Texas — Exxon Mobil Corporation has executed the largest offshore carbon dioxide storage lease in the United States with the Texas General Land Office.  According to the oil and gas giant, the site, which is over 271,000 acres, “complements”... Read More

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has given final approval to the Horse Heaven Hills wind farm, a project that has been mired in controversy and the subject of much debate ever since it was proposed in 2021. As... Read More

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates opened its annual oil-and-gas summit on Monday as it plans to increase the country's energy output as global prices stay volatile and world politics remain uncertain ahead of the U.S. presidential... Read More

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government chose winning bids Tuesday to develop wind power off New England in the first commercial sale for floating offshore wind on the Atlantic coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $3 billion to boost climate-friendly equipment and infrastructure at ports across the country, including Baltimore, where a deadly bridge collapse killed six construction workers in March and disrupted East Coast shipping routes for... Read More

OCEAN CITY, Md. — The mayor and city council of this popular tourist destination are the lead plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit intended to roll back the approval of an 80,000-acre wind energy project to be located about 10.7 miles... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that an environmental review to assess the potential impacts of wind energy development activities covering over 488,000 acres off the New York and New Jersey coasts has been completed. The “Notice... Read More

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Whether it's digging for metals and minerals for cellphones and electric vehicles or coal for power generation, mining around the world has skyrocketed since 2000, causing widespread destruction of tropical forests, degrading the environment and displacing... Read More

BMW’s recent announcement of its plan to bring its first fuel cell car to the market in 2028, a result of collaboration with Toyota, drew little fanfare amidst a deluge of coverage about the growing U.S. customer disinterest in EVs. High prices and costs of maintenance, safety... Read More