Energy

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is investing nearly $2 billion in 38 projects intended to both protect the U.S. power grid against extreme weather and expand its capacity to meet surging demand. The new tranche of funding comes less than... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency can begin enforcing strict new rules on power plant emissions despite efforts by conservative states to block them. The rules have the effect of moving the nation... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Nuclear power is garnering renewed attention amid growing demand for power and cleaner energy. The power source has seen a resurgence as nations focus on reducing emissions in an effort to combat climate change. At the... Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed first-in-the-nation legislation requiring oil refineries to maintain minimum amounts of fuel to ease price spikes during maintenance outages.  The law, the result of a special legislative session that came to... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration slapped Iran’s oil and petrochemical sectors with a new round of stiff sanctions in response to the country’s Oct. 1 attack against Israel. According to the Treasury Department, which announced the sanctions on Friday, the... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment for a proposed resource management plan associated with the development of a 200-MW solar farm in Washoe County, Nevada. NextEra Energy Resources, the developer of the project, has proposed... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has announced that California is launching its first federal Home Energy Rebates program. Supported by the Inflation Reduction Act, the California launch is part of a nationwide initiative to provide $8.8 billion in federal... Read More

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J. — A New Jersey nonprofit has introduced a new assessment tool to help small- and medium-sized companies in the state get involved in the growing offshore wind energy sector. The new tool, called the New Jersey Manufacturing... Read More

Form Energy, a company that is beginning to produce a longer-lasting alternative to lithium batteries, hit a milestone Wednesday with an announcement of $405 million in funding. The money will allow Form to speed up manufacturing at its first factory in Weirton,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review a plan for storing as much as 40,000 tons of radioactive nuclear plant waste at a temporary site in west Texas. The case is likely to provide a pivotal decision on... Read More

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on its draft environmental assessment for a proposed solar energy project on public and private lands in eastern Riverside County, California. If approved, the Sapphire solar project... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy will invest $1.5 billion in four transmission projects intended to improve grid reliability, reduce transmission congestion and open access to affordable energy to millions of Americans across the country. In addition, the department on... Read More

SEA GIRT, N.J. (AP) — The federal government gave a key approval Tuesday to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey, even as residents in the town where its power cable would come ashore worry it could go through underground... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Wednesday to see hard-hit areas, two... Read More

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — U.S.-based First Solar has opened a new $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in northern Alabama, adding 3.5 GW of production capacity to its portfolio while creating 800 clean energy jobs in the state. “This represents a great day... Read More

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that $5.5 million in grants are available to New York municipalities to support their efforts to install electric vehicle chargers, including hydrogen fuel filling station components and Level 2 and direct current fast... Read More

WASHINGTON — An offshore wind energy auction planned for potential lease areas off the coast of Oregon on Oct. 15 has been postponed due to “insufficient bidder interest,” the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced Friday. The Department of the Interior... Read More

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey hit the pause button Wednesday on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its turbines. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities granted Leading Light Wind a pause... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists are urging the Supreme Court to allow a new regulation tightening methane emissions to go forward despite challenges from 24 states and the oil and gas industry. The opponents said in a... Read More

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — The National Corn Growers Association is applauding House approval on Friday of a resolution that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans claim would force Americans to buy electric vehicles that they... Read More

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators conducted only a cursory review of potential environmental consequences before authorizing the sale of leases of more than 195,000 acres for wind energy development off the Oregon Coast, a newly filed lawsuit claims. The suit, filed... Read More

WASHINGTON — A draft report on the future market demand for liquified natural gas exports, and the potential impact those exports could have on the climate, should be available for public scrutiny by the end of the year, Energy Secretary... Read More

WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday said steps are being taken now to ensure President Joe Biden’s clean energy and climate change agenda won’t be “undone” regardless of who wins the November election. Speaking to a large, early... Read More

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday that it is teaming up with yet another energy company as part of a mission to transform portions of government-owned property once used for the nation's nuclear weapons program... Read More

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Denmark’s Vestas, a wind energy company with projects across the globe, has secured its first contract to supply turbines to an offshore wind project in the United States. The company, which is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, will... Read More

WASHINGTON — Eight areas off the coasts of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire will be the focus of an offshore wind energy lease sale on Oct. 29, the Interior Department announced Monday. If fully developed, the department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy... Read More

WASHINGTON — Legislation introduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday seeks to hold the world’s largest fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate change damages they’ve caused. Sponsored by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. Jerry Nadler,... Read More

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Wood Mackenzie Ltd., the global data and analytics provider in the energy space, is the last consultancy to weigh in on what a victory by either former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris might mean... Read More

WASHINGTON — Massachusetts and Rhode Island will dramatically scale up their use of wind power as a result of a regional solicitation for bids by developers of three new projects off the Atlantic Coast. The new contracts will be divided... Read More

In a step forward for efforts to acquire the metals crucial to addressing climate change, on Monday a new plant that can extract nickel and cobalt from scrap material opens in Fairfield, Ohio. The resulting metals will be used in... Read More