President Trump's plan to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement takes effect Nov. 4, one day after the national election. If Democratic candidate Joe Biden wins the White House, he has promised to rejoin the accord.
Global methane emissions rose 32 percent this year, a study found, and the European Union said it would aim to reduce methane releases in the oil and gas industry. Methane accounts for a quarter of global warming emissions from human activities.
A Montana judge ruled Friday that William Perry Pendley, the effective director of the Bureau of Land Management, had failed to get Senate approval and had stayed beyond the limit allowed under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. As a result, his actions while at BLM for more than a year might be invalid, throwing into doubt a wide range of decisions.
The Trump administration withdraws nomination of William Perry Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management amid pressure on Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Col.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) who are running for reelection and who have been under pressure not to vote for Pendley.
The Trump administration has rescinded regulations designed to limit the emissions of methane from oil and gas operations.
The Tennessee Valley Authority reversed course Thursday and rehired some tech workers just three days after President Trump singled out the federally owned utility for outsourcing those jobs. Trump also blasted the TVA's CEO for his "ridiculous" pay package.
What happens when a big oil and gas company decides it wants to radically cut back on the oil and gas business? That’s what BP says it will do over the next decade.
Trump fires two members of the board of the TVA, a quasi-independent utility that uses no federal money but whose directors are chosen for overlapping terms by the president. Trump cited the utility's plan to use outside firms for technology contracting, eliminating 112 jobs.
Larry Householder's rise to speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, as well as his aggressive push for a $1.3 billion bailout of two embattled nuclear power plants, was financed by a $60 million bribery scheme, prosecutors said Tuesday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) on Tuesday unveils Democrats' ambitious climate proposals, aiming for net zero emissions economy-wide by 2050.
The agreement is a sign of growing corporate interest in renewable energy.
Trump promised oil and gas companies economic relief. But renewables are getting less focus in Washington.
The International Energy Agency says the drop in CO2 emissions is six times as large as the previous record in 2009.
Environmental groups, climate experts and renewable energy industries call on Congress and administration to take advantage of the economic disarray and pass a stimulus bill that will set a new path toward lower carbon emissions
However, filling the reserve will cost much less than the treasury secretary estimates.
The move comes after the oil giant vowed to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“You know we have a world, right?” the president said. “So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air.”
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company started selling shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange in Riyadh, giving the company the largest market value in the world.
DOE issues final rule extending the sales of incandescent lightbulbs, rolling back regulations that implement a 2007 bipartisan law.
Trump administration proclaims political benefits of gas exports
