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Colonial Pipeline storage tanks are seen in Woodbridge, N.J., Monday, May 10, 2021. Gasoline futures are ticking higher following a cyberextortion attempt on the Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. pipeline that carries fuel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Colonial Pipeline, hit by cyberattack, may be back up and running by end of week

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland looks on during a news conference following a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Blanding, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Deb Haaland brings back Obama-era ‘war on coal’ leasing ban

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

China's Foothold in American Energy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Time to get serious about China’s energy blackmail

By Tom Basile

FILE - In this April 2019, file photo, provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory, barrels of radioactive waste are loaded for transport to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) at the Radioactive Assay Nondestructive Testing (RANT) facility in Los Alamos, N.M. New Mexico is going after the federal government for failing to make progress on cleaning up contamination left behind by decades of bomb-making and nuclear research at one of the nation's premier nuclear labs. In a civil complaint filed in federal court, the state says the plan by the U.S. Energy Department lacks substantive and appropriate targets for dealing with waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Nestor Trujillo/Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP, File)

New Mexico goes to court over slow cleanup at US nuclear lab

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

President Joe Biden signs an executive order on climate change, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden climate policies raise alarm about environmental damage

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Paris climate agreement illustration by The Washington Times

When Obama made the Paris climate agreement end run

By Chris Horner

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo and provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, meets with representatives of the aircraft carrier unit and the manufacturer at a naval port in Sanya, southern China's Hainan Province. Seventy-five years after Japan's surrender in World War II, and 30 years after its economic bubble popped, the emergence of a 21st century Asian power is shaking up the status quo. As Japan did, China is butting heads with the established Western powers, which increasingly see its growing economic and military prowess as a threat. (Li Gang/Xinhua News Agency via AP, File)

‘No doubt’ China is upgrading its nuclear power to be on par with U.S., Russia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China expanding nuclear arms plants revealed

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. López Obrador said Friday that his ambassador to the United States told him two weeks ago that there was an investigation underway there involving Mexico's former defense secretary, retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

US legislators complain to Trump on Mexico energy policy

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gives thumbs up, as he departs after speaking from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump campaign predicts Biden’s anti-oil pledge will ‘put nail in coffin for Pennsylvania’

By Valerie Richardson and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 29, 2015, file photo, an illustration depicts a planned interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico as officials announce plans to pursue the project during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. The state of New Mexico is strongly objecting to a recommendation by federal nuclear regulators that a license be granted to build a multibillion-dollar storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the U.S. State officials in a letter submitted Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the site is geologically unsuitable and regulators have failed to consider environmental justice concerns. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Watchdogs push New Mexico to limit US nuclear waste dump

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

$Workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, in western Colorado on March 29, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**$

Fracking central to U.S. energy, climate change debates

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Hurricane hit oil storage site, but no shortages expected

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump participates in a signing ceremony with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, seated left, and Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, seated right, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump hails deal between Balkans rivals Serbia, Kosovo

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This April 26, 2020, file photo shows empty lanes of the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway that leads to downtown Los Angeles during the coronavirus outbreak in Los Angeles, Calif. A record drop in U.S. energy consumption this spring was driven by less demand for coal that's burned for electricity and oil that's refined into gasoline and jet fuel. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

US energy use hit 30-year low during pandemic shutdowns

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Nevada, Energy Department settle fight over secret plutonium

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

File - In this April 29, 2015, file photo, an illustration depicts a planned interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico as officials announce plans to pursue the project during a news conference at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, N.M. A proposed multibillion-dollar complex in southern New Mexico that would store spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants around the U.S. is facing another legal challenge as opponents have filed an appeal in federal court. They are taking aim at the federal government's decision to dismiss numerous contentions that watchdogs had raised about the project. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Watchdog files appeal over planned nuclear storage complex

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1999 file photo, the first load of nuclear waste arrives at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in Carlsbad, N.M., from Los Alamos National Laboratory. A watchdog group wants the New Mexico Court of Appeals to put the brakes on a key construction project at the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository. The group alleges state environmental officials ignored regulations and past practices in giving temporary approval for contractors to begin building a new ventilation shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. (AP Photo/Thomas Herbert, File)

Appeal: New Mexico ignored rules in OK of nuke site work

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Putin traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday, meeting with the oil-rich nation's king and crown prince as he seeks to cement Moscow's political and energy ties across the Mideast. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Saudis, Russians reach deal to ease oil price wars

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian citizens on the State Television channels at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 2, 2020. Putin has ordered most Russians to stay off work until the end of the month to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Speaking in a televised address to the nation on Thursday, Putin said he was extending the non-working policy he ordered earlier for this week to remain in force throughout April. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia, Saudi Arabia ‘very close’ to oil deal: Moscow’s sovereign wealth fund chief

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times