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With oil production still sagging after Hurricane Harvey battered the Gulf Coast, Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday said he'll authorize the release of 500,000 barrels from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
As Texas and Louisiana faced the final flurry of punches from Harvey on Wednesday, a second wave of pain is headed for the nation's energy markets in what analysts say will be a disruption that reaches around the world.
The FBI should investigate whether billionaire Carl Icahn sought to use his status as a special adviser to President Trump to enrich himself, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Illinois Democrat, said in a statement Wednesday.
The effects of Hurricane Harvey are being felt across the energy sector, with oil refineries along the Gulf Coast off-line and fuel output dropping dramatically, fueling fears that gas prices could soon spike as a result.
In response to pressure from Democrats and environmental groups, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general on Monday announced a probe into agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's taxpayer-funded travel to his home state of Oklahoma.
The Trump administration's plan to shrink at least three major national monuments is headed for a courtroom battle, with environmentalists and tribal groups warning over the weekend that they're readying lawsuits in hope of stopping the move.
Tribal leaders on Friday blasted Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, saying his plan to shrink Utah's Bears Ears National Monument is "an insult" and shows blatant disregard for their concerns.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday will call for changes to a "handful" of national monuments but will not recommend that any be fully rescinded.
The abundance and low cost of natural gas has been the main driver of coal-fired power plant closures across the country over the past decade, the Energy Department says, placing most of the blame for coal's free fall on energy economics, not Obama-era federal regulations.
President Bill Clinton's decision in 1996 to create the sprawling Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah was so incredibly controversial that he couldn't even set foot in the state to make the announcement, instead holding a photo-op at the Grand Canyon in neighboring Arizona.
The next generation of U.S. nuclear power, which the Trump administration views as a key part of the nation's energy supply, is hanging on by a thread as two key projects have run into serious trouble and are raising doubts about the viability of new nuclear facilities moving forward.
U.S. ethanol champions are bracing for the possibility that Brazil, the largest economy in Latin America, could soon land a devastating blow in what increasingly looks like an all-out global trade war over alternative fuels.
Amid a host of policy shifts from the Obama to Trump eras, one thing that has remained constant at the Interior Department is its massive online following, driven primarily by daily posts featuring wildlife, scenic landscapes and breathtaking views of the nation's national parks.
A day after violence broke out between counter-protesters and white nationalists in his city, Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer on Sunday said President Trump deserves at least some of the blame.
A White House adviser on Sunday explicitly condemned white supremacists, going further than President Trump did Saturday on a violent attack on anti-racism counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
As the dust settled after Saturday's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, President Trump was stung by a political backlash from both sides, with leading Republicans condemning what they saw as a tepid response and a failure to call evil by its name.
Environmental resistance inside the Trump administration hit new heights this week as a group of federal scientists leaked a draft of a sweeping climate change report to the press, pushing the study out into the bloodstream before their superiors had the chance to alter or approve it.