Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology. A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns. His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors. Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies. Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets. He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.
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.
With climate change seemingly absent from the agenda, the weekend meeting between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping underscored that the U.S. has all but abandoned its status as the international leader on global warming and ceded that position to China.
Manufacturers of lawn mowers, snowblowers, chainsaws, and other small-engine equipment continue fueling a debate over the supposed dangers of ethanol, but the ethanol industry argues that they are merely looking for a scapegoat to mask operator error.
Democratic attorneys general eager to defend the Obama administration's climate change policies are vowing a flurry of lawsuits to stop President Trump's regulatory rollback -- moves analysts say face an uphill legal battle and are unlikely to secure the same kinds of victories Republicans racked up over the last eight years.
With lives literally hanging in the balance, Congress is headed toward another last-minute showdown over health care and pensions for retired coal miners -- some of whom have vowed to remain on Capitol Hill for 30 days to pressure lawmakers to act.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday sent out a press release touting praise for President Trump's rollback of Obama-era climate-change regulations this week -- but the agency accidentally led the email with a blistering quote from a Democratic critic.
Environmental activists on Thursday sued the Trump administration in an effort to stop the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which the administration formally approved last week.
President Trump on Tuesday again claimed that all pipelines will now be built with U.S. steel -- even though the Keystone XL project, perhaps the highest profile pipeline in American history, will rely heavily on foreign materials.