Energy

WASHINGTON — Several hundred protestors descended on the concrete “courtyard” between Lafayette Park and the White House on Thursday to urge President Joe Biden to block a massive pipeline currently slated to pass through their Appalachian homelands. Chanting “Joe Manchin... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order that aims to bolster job opportunities for military and veteran spouses whose careers are often disrupted by their loved ones' deployments. Biden is using a visit to the recently renamed... Read More

WASHINGTON — Clean hydrogen is part of the latest effort to slow climate change, according to a new strategy released Monday by the Department of Energy.  The 97-page U.S. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap outlines a plan for developing... Read More

HOUSTON — ExxonMobil has signed a carbon capture and storage agreement with the Nucor Corporation that will see the energy giant capture, transport and store up to 800,000 metric tons of CO2 a year from a manufacturing site in Convent,... Read More

NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators are one step closer to authorizing the first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico having concluded that such development activity will have no significant impacts on the environment. The Bureau of... Read More

GOLDEN, Colo. — Seven projects will share in $3.5 million in federal funding intended to advance research in solar heliostat technology. A heliostat is a large mirror that turns over time to keep reflecting sunlight at a predetermined target. They... Read More

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Federal regulators gave the green light last week to construction of a large-scale battery storage project intended to boost renewable energy capacity in California and increase the reliability of the state power grid. The Sunlight Storage... Read More

LAS VEGAS — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposed 300 MW solar energy farm with battery storage that if approved would be located on roughly 2,500 acres about 30 miles northwest of Las Vegas.... Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For most of the year, California's quest to rid itself of fossil fuels seems on track: Electric cars populate highways while energy from wind, solar and water provides much of the power for homes and businesses.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy on Monday awarded $42 million in funding for 22 projects in 14 states to advance technologies critical for producing, storing and deploying clean hydrogen. At the same time, the department announced it is awarding... Read More

BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled against a Nantucket nonprofit trying to block development of a large offshore wind farm about 15 miles off the coast of the island and Martha’s Vineyard. In its underlying complaint, the group... Read More

BOISE, Idaho — Bayer, the global life sciences, health care and nutrition company, has long maintained that it wants its operations and those of its entire value chain to be climate neutral and fully fossil-fuel free by 2030 — just... Read More

WASHINGTON — Hoping to speed the development of energy and infrastructure projects, members of the National Governors Association are touting a bipartisan plan they say will dramatically streamline the permitting process while maintaining the integrity of reviews. In a joint... Read More

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reduce planet-warming pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities. The announcement represents a vote of confidence by the government in... Read More

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The Bureau of Land Management on Monday announced that competitive oil and gas lease sales in Michigan and Louisiana will be held online on Thursday, June 29, 2023.  The agency will offer one parcel in Michigan... Read More

WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week that the U.S. could start repurchasing oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve once one last sale mandated by Congress is carried out next month. "And it's at... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed the first-ever regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The proposals steer clear of mandating the use of equipment or a specific technology to capture emissions before they... Read More

WASHINGTON — Regulators are a step closer to making their final determinations regarding a closely-watched wind project proposal in Idaho. Magic Valley Energy LLC — an affiliate of New York-based energy infrastructure company LS Power — is seeking the Bureau... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is seeking public comment on the possible issuance of an offshore wind energy research lease in the Gulf of Maine. Under the leadership of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and with bipartisan support... Read More

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have proposed a rule to improve the detection and repair of leaks in natural gas pipelines and storage facilities. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration the proposal, transmitted to the Federal Register on... Read More

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Westinghouse Electric Company launched its newest nuclear technology on Thursday, a small modular nuclear reactor packed with enough safety and other features to easily reach its 80-plus-year operating life cycle. Westinghouse’s new AP300™ small modular reactor... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy announced the division winners and Project Pitch Champion in the Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition's Class of 2022-2023 during a live event held at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on Monday. According... Read More

HONOLULU, Hawaii — Par Hawaii, a refiner of renewable fuels, is now the first entity of its kind in the nation to win federal approval to produce its goods in a Foreign-Trade Zone. Now that the U.S. Commerce Department has... Read More

WASHINGTON — A hard fought legal challenge to a 2021 oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico was rendered moot by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act last year, the U.S. Circuit Court for the District... Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Large commercial trucking firms and bus operators must start transitioning to an electric fleet next year and be fully fossil-fuel free by 2036 if they want to keep operating in California, the state’s Air Resources Board said... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House voted 221-202 on Friday to overturn President Joe Biden’s two-year moratorium on imposing new tariffs on solar panels and related equipment from four Southeast Asian countries suspected of illicitly working to allow Chinese companies to skirt... Read More

LANSING, Mich. — A three-judge appellate panel in Michigan last week revived a lawsuit challenging a change in a local zoning ordinance that led to a township approving the permit for an industrial solar farm. In a unanimous ruling, the... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday waived its summer ban on sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends, making this the second year in a row that gas stations across the country will be able to sell gasoline blended with... Read More

OSWEGO, N.Y. — The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Power Station on Lake Ontario in New York is the first facility of its kind in the U.S. to produce clean hydrogen using nuclear power.  The milestone was achieved as part of... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly close to imposing first-of-their-kind limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants. According to multiple reports, the Biden administration will impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions to compel power plant operators to... Read More