Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter. Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration. Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.
Leading green activists say President Trump has already done a full term's worth of damage, rolling back Obama-era regulations and installing one of their chief critics as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
A group of Republican lawmakers on Thursday urged President Trump to keep the U.S. in the landmark Paris climate agreement but to rework America's commitment so that it "does no harm to the economy."
Pledging to reverse an "egregious abuse of federal power" by the Obama administration, President Trump Wednesday morning directed the Interior Department to review national monument designations over the past two decades.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday will begin an in-depth review of major national monuments established over the past two decades, potentially setting the stage for President Trump to become the first commander in chief in history to rescind a monument designation.
Ethanol's rise over the past decade has given birth to an under-the-radar market: Americans who are willing to travel miles out of their way and pay significantly more per gallon for ethanol-free fuel.
Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that would set up a government fund to pay for global warming adaptation projects and also would authorize up to $200 million annually in "climate change bonds" to be sold to the public.
President Trump this week will take the first steps toward possibly undoing national monument designations by his predecessors and may set off an unprecedented legal battle in the process, according to media reports.
In what industry leaders heralded as proof that the "blend wall" is nothing more than a myth, a new study released Wednesday shows that U.S. gasoline contained more than 10 percent ethanol on average for the first time last year.
At the urging of the fossil fuels industry, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday morning announced it's putting on hold an Obama-era rule aimed at limiting methane emissions from oil and gas wells.
Conservatives on Tuesday launched an all-out assault on the Paris climate accord, pressuring President Trump to brush aside moderate voices in the White House -- including son-in-law Jared Kushner -- and keep his campaign promise to pull the U.S. out of the deal.
Military veterans play an outsized role in the corn ethanol industry, but exactly what drives them to the field has become a bone of contention between ethanol proponents and oil and gas industry leaders.
President Trump has been sucked into the abyss of the Washington "establishment" since his inauguration, prominent Republicans and Democrats charged Sunday morning, and whether that's a positive development depends entirely on one's political point of view.
The past decade has brought about a monumental shift in how fuel sources benefit from the U.S. tax code, with renewable energy more than lapping its counterparts in the oil, gas, and coal sectors.
Calling U.S. airlines "dysfunctional," Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday that Congress should examine the industry and consider requiring companies to be more respectful and responsive to their customers.
President Trump's Interior Department plans a fresh look at shelved plans to build a single-lane gravel road to King Cove, Alaska, breathing new life into a decades-long debate that has pitted the isolated community seeking a link to the outside world against environmentalists who say the project would wreak havoc on a federal wildlife refuge.