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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, gestures before a public television debate on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, in Anchorage, Alaska. She faces three challengers in Tuesday’s general election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Congress fails to pass end-of-year energy bill

Continuing a decade of futility on the issue, House and Senate negotiators fell short yet again last week in crafting a comprehensive energy bill, and punted the issue to the next Congress and the incoming Trump administration.

December 12, 2016
In this Thursday, March 10, 2016, photo, Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma Attorney General, gestures as he speaks during an interview in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) ** FILE **

Donald Trump selects Scott Pruitt to head EPA

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday officially announced his plans to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

December 8, 2016
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt arrives at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Scott Pruitt to be Trump’s EPA chief: Report

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a report by Reuters.

December 7, 2016

Lands activists urge Trump to revoke Obama’s national monuments

Western lands activists are urging Donald Trump to test the limits of executive power by revoking millions of acres that President Obama set aside as national monuments, setting up a landmark legal battle over one of the nation's most frequently used environmental protections.

November 24, 2016
FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2014 file photo, an American Ethanol label is shown on a NASCAR race car gas tank at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The Obama administration is proposing to reduce the amount of ethanol blended in the nation's gasoline, a blow to renewable fuel companies that have pushed to keep high volumes of their product flowing into drivers' gas tanks. The move is unlikely to mean much for consumers or prices at the pump. (AP Photo/Randy Holt, File)

EPA hikes ethanol blend requirement in gasoline

Over the objections of many lawmakers who say the entire program has failed, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday hiked the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the nation's gasoline supply next year.

November 23, 2016
The latest proposal represents the administration's final attempt to secure President Obama's legacy on climate change — a legacy President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to undo. (Associated Press)

Obama undermines Donald Trump with ambitious new climate change plan

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll abandon his predecessor's global climate change deal, but that didn't stop the Obama administration this week from rolling out a new, even more ambitious plan to cut U.S. emissions by 80 percent by 2050, undermining the incoming president on the world stage two months before his inauguration.

November 17, 2016
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2016, file photo, then=Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reaches to shake hands with Egunjobi Songofunmi during a meeting with students and educators before a speech on school choice at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) **FILE**

Donald Trump has little power to scrap Common Core

Donald Trump vowed to scrap Common Core if elected to the White House, but supporters and critics alike agree the incoming president has little, if any, power over the education standards that already are in place across the vast majority of states.

November 16, 2016