On signing the Inflation Reduction Act on August 16, 2022, President Joe Biden called it “one of the most significant laws in our history.” With the new law, Biden said, “the American people won and the special interests lost.” He repeated the line.
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The Interior Department is plowing ahead with plans to fast-track environmental reviews, directing officials to blow through what is often a yearslong process in less than a month.
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CASA GRANDE, Arizona — An Arizona Republican’s swing district is experiencing a clean energy boom. He may have to buck Donald Trump to protect it.
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The Trump administration on Thursday announced a wide-ranging review of more than $15 billion in federal awards approved under President Joe Biden.
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Running a ChatGPT search takes roughly ten times as much energy as a simple Google search, according to a recent report from the International Energy Agency. The same assessment found that we’ll need an additional ten terawatt-hours of electricity per year to power those searches. For…
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Twelve House Republicans are urging congressional leaders to consider “three thoughtful changes” to legislation that would repeal or scale back a host of tax incentives from the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
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A large swath of the United States is facing a heightened risk of blackouts this summer, a perennial danger as electricity use soars and extreme weather tests the nation’s aging power grid, according to the regulatory authority that monitors the electricity system.
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Amid the shock, condemnation, and derision that have met the Trump administration’s early steps on the international stage, a moment of rare cheer came during a speech by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the Powering Africa Summit in Washington in March.
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President Donald Trump has moved aggressively to unravel climate action. But there’s one thing he hasn’t touched yet — the world’s oldest climate treaty.
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SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed a 15-year extension of California’s signature cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases — a cornerstone of the state’s climate policies and a reliable revenue generator.
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