The latest updates on energy and environment news, analysis and opinion covering energy policy and its impact on resources and climate.
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
In a key development that will help the U.S. export its vast energy resources, the Department of Energy on Friday approved an application for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Texas. Published May 17, 2013
By Associated Press
BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls spurious compensation claims stemming from the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Published May 16, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
On a party-line vote, a key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a significant step forward for the controversial nominee and one that ends, at least temporarily, a bitter fight between Republicans and Democrats. Published May 16, 2013
By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Gina McCarthy's already bumpy road to becoming Environmental Protection Agency administrator took another detour Thursday morning when Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote on her nomination, blocking it for now. Published May 9, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The Prince of Wales issued a scathing denouncement of corporations and of climate-change skeptics for failing to take environmental actions to save the "dying patient," planet Earth. Published May 9, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A new law proposed by the European Commission is being criticized as a massive government overreach that will ultimately damage the farming industry, and lead to the outlaw of certain types of seeds. Published May 8, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Just in time for the cooler spring that has swept the nation — complete with unseasonal snow in the Rockies region — scientists with the University of Manchester said pollution actually brings on climate cooling, not warming. Published May 6, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
General Motors called for the White House to ratchet up regulations to rein in climate change, saying new global laws would be good for all business. Published May 2, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Mark Zuckerberg has made millions of friends, but the Facebook founder's first foray into the political policy arena is quickly earning him some enemies. Published May 2, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Failing to address climate change could drive women into prostitution, said 13 House Democrats who signed a resolution saying women are affected more negatively than men by the dramatic weather shifts. Published April 30, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Former Obama administration green czar Van Jones took to Twitter on Monday to tout his arrest for a courthouse protest against Big Coal — the arrest he asked police to make. Published April 30, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
After a 16-month investigation, state regulators Monday said that natural gas fracking, contrary to highly publicized claims, isn't to blame for high methane levels in three families' drinking water in a northern Pennsylvania town. Published April 29, 2013
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Oil companies from China, Norway, Japan and other nations are investing billions of dollars in U.S. shale projects so they can learn how to extract oil and gas from bedrock and use those technologies to tap into the large and mostly undeveloped shale deposits outside the U.S. Published April 28, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A senator in New Jersey wants to recoup revenues lost from gas taxes on electric car drivers with a new fee that would charge them by the mile for their travels. Published April 26, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry vowed during Earth Day remarks to deal with climate change, one of the world's foremost "clear and present danger[s]." Published April 23, 2013
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
While the North Korean issue has dominated headlines around Secretary of State John F. Kerry's visit with Chinese leaders Saturday, the two nations quietly joined in a forward-leaning "joint statement" calling for more action by global leaders to get tough in response to "climate change." Published April 13, 2013
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
To John LaRue, the renaissance in U.S. manufacturing is no dream. It's already here. Published April 11, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sally Jewell to head the Interior Department. Published April 11, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
With the Environmental Protection Agency set to play the central role in President Obama's second-term climate change agenda, would-be agency chief Gina McCarthy on Thursday tried to calm Republican fears that she would continue the perceived "war on coal" and other harsh regulations under her predecessor. Published April 11, 2013
By Raphael Satter - Associated Press
Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other travelers: It's time to buckle up. Published April 10, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released the personal information of thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental activists. Published April 10, 2013
By Associated Press
The 950-acre property that singer-songwriter John Denver bought in the late 1970s as headquarters for his Windstar Foundation is being sold, a move seen by some environmentalists as the unofficial end to the singer's vision to protect some of the land west of Aspen from being overrun by developers. Published April 10, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
A House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee is set to investigate Fisker Automotive, the failing electric-car manufacturer that was granted $529 million by the Obama administration. Published April 10, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
It's been almost 17 years, but educators have called for national teaching guidelines for science in schools around the nation — and they want part of the curriculum to focus on climate change and evolution. Published April 10, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
The Education and Energy departments are among the big winners in President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget, with each agency receiving a substantial boost in proposed funding.Mr. Obama plans to increase the Education Department by 4.6 percent, to $31.8 billion, including $750 million for expanded universal pre-school services. That initiative would be funded by a new tobacco tax. Published April 10, 2013
By Lynne Tuohy - Associated Press
A jury found Exxon Mobil Corp. liable Tuesday in a long-running lawsuit over groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE, and it ordered the oil giant to pay $236 million to New Hampshire to clean it up. Published April 9, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
President Obama's pick to head the Energy Department offered something for everyone during Senate confirmation hearings. Published April 9, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
As he weighs whether to allow fracking in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under intense pressure from the oil and gas industry, Republican lawmakers and long-struggling communities eager to see the drilling technique jump-start the state's economy. Published April 7, 2013
By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times
Pepco has been faulted repeatedly for dismal reliability and the electric company's hundreds of thousands of customers have little choice but to go with the monopoly, yet its chief executive's compensation package rose from $6.7 million in 2011 to $11.4 million last year, financial documents filed last week show. Published April 4, 2013
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Celebrity climate alarmist Al Gore has some competition. Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined the ranks of high-profile folks eager to warn the world about global warming. Published April 3, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
The U.S. Department of the Interior has become quite a hit recently with its striking Instagram photos, gaining more than 33,000 followers of the department tasked with "protecting America's great outdoors." Published April 2, 2013
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
Say you were a politician and there was a clean and abundant domestic energy source -- one that has the potential to create jobs and revitalize local economies. Would you do more to encourage it? Published February 19, 2013
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Energy is the key to America's economic future. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the nation into one increasingly dependent on sunshine and breezes to power the economy. Published February 14, 2013
By Tom Harris
In his inaugural address last week, President Obama demonstrated that he is putting people at risk with misguided climate and energy policies. Published January 30, 2013
By David Holt
There is an energy revolution under way in the United States. Booming oil and natural gas production is transforming our economic outlook, ushering newfound wealth to our rural areas and providing high-paying jobs for middle-class workers across the country. Published January 23, 2013
By Joy Overbeck
Matt Damon wanted to do a hit piece on fracking, the process by which natural gas is extracted from shale deposits deep in the ground. Published January 4, 2013
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
If you don't have the facts on your side, make some up. That's Hollywood's typical scheme for pushing its left-wing views on American audiences. Published January 1, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
Republicans say they're opposed to Gina McCarthy's bid to lead the Environmental Protection Agency because she's withholding key information. Sen. Barbara Boxer sees a more sinister motivation. Published May 15 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
After Senate Republicans last week blocked a vote on Gina McCarthy's nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Democrats plan to try again Thursday. Published May 13 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
If you believe in man-made climate change — and think the nation's unemployment rate truly has fallen to 7.5 percent — then Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has a bridge to sell you. Published May 7 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
After a steep decline during the darkest years of the Great Recession, Americans' fears about global warming are growing, a new poll finds. Published April 8 2013
An unusually chilly March day and the snowstorm it spawned have shut down much of official Washington on Wednesday — including a hearing House Republicans had called to examine global warming. Published March 6 2013
By Dave Boyer
Following up on his inaugural address, Mr. Obama devoted a lengthy passage of his speech to his intention to combat climate change, asking Congress to pursue a "bipartisan, market-based solution" and threatening executive action if it did not. Published February 12 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper went to unusually great lengths to learn firsthand the strides the oil and gas industry has made to minimize environmental harm from fracking. Published February 12 2013
