Energy & Fuel

"Asian countries are turning to coal as the Iran war disrupts oil and gas shipments."

"State regulators have allowed the Beaver County ethylene plant to keep exceeding limits on damaging nitrogen oxides while the official permitting process has taken seven times its original timeline."

"Energy storage is surging on the U.S. grid — and now the country has more than enough battery-making factories to meet that booming demand."

"A new analysis warns that some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have entered a ‘gaslighting’ phase to bolster their profits."

"The Trump administration reached a nearly $1 billion agreement with French energy giant TotalEnergies on Monday to cancel its offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York and North Carolina."

"States are fighting a requirement that chargers getting federal funding be made with 100% American components — a standard no manufacturers currently meet."

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will be the opening speaker at a conference next month sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a group that rejects the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the organization has announced."

"Trump officials are heralding a potential new coal plant in Alaska, but the project faces mounting opposition and tricky data center politics."

"The Interior Department was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the agency of illegally convening the Endangered Species Committee to waive protections for animals in the Gulf of Mexico in order to allow for more offshore drilling there."

"More than two dozen states are considering bills that would make it easier for households to adopt plug-in solar arrays. Illinois could be next to pass one."