HOUSTON — The officials leading President Donald Trump’s energy agenda made clear to oil, gas and mining executives this week that they have an ally in Washington who intends to make it as easy as possible for them to drill in federal lands and waters.
The Elon Musk-led DOGE operation has added more environmental agency offices to its list of leases to be canceled as part of the administration’s push to shrink the federal government.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday that work on a proposed pipeline to bring natural gas through New York to help supply energy to New England could start by the end of this year.
EPA has ended its ban on federal contracts for the company that developed the Dakota Access oil pipeline, threatening a key legal attack used by opponents seeking to shut the line.
The Department of Energy late Thursday reinstated employees who had been fired last month in governmentwide cuts, according to a DOE memo viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News.
(Reuters) -Several U.S. farmers and non-profit organizations filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing it is illegally withholding Department of Agriculture grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
The Trump administration has been attempting to spark the idea of a looming energy crisis in the U.S., but those claims couldn't be further from reality, according to several experts who spoke to ABC News.
President Trump’s cabinet has been busy rolling back regulations that will make it far easier to extract and produce fossil fuels. But who will buy them?