Coal

Mandy Gunasekara is returning to EPA as chief of staff after leading the agency's air-policy office.

Energy and Environment

‘Stop putting out socialist-aligned policies’: New EPA chief of staff plans to attack Democrats

Josh Siegel · March 16, 2020 4:00 am

FERC oversees wholesale electricity markets and reviews interstate pipeline applications.

Energy and Environment

Three Senate Democrats join Republicans to confirm Trump FERC nominee James Danly

Josh Siegel · March 12, 2020 6:23 pm

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to demonstrate that Republicans have their own agenda to address climate change, but that the party disagrees with the aggressive path being charted by President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress.

Energy and Environment

House Republicans call on Trump to promote fossil fuel exports to curb climate change

Josh Siegel · March 3, 2020 11:15 pm

Club for Growth President David McIntosh

Energy and Environment

After denouncing House GOP climate change proposal, conservative Club for Growth works on its own plan

Josh Siegel · February 20, 2020 10:08 pm

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, set a new goal Wednesday of closing all remaining U.S. coal plants.

Energy and Environment

Bloomberg: US can’t afford to ban fracking ‘for awhile’

Josh Siegel · February 20, 2020 3:41 am

The worldâs least efficient coal plants need to be phased out by 2030, and any remaining plants in use by 2040 have to be equipped with carbon capture technology, the International Energy Agency said.

Energy and Environment

Demise of coal in rich countries brings global carbon emissions to a stall

Josh Siegel · February 11, 2020 2:51 pm

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, represents the third largest coal consuming state in the country.

Energy and Environment

Coal state Republican Rob Portman to join new climate change caucus

Josh Siegel · February 7, 2020 12:33 am

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, set a new goal Wednesday of closing all remaining U.S. coal plants.

Energy and Environment

Bloomberg aims to end sale of gas-fueled vehicles by 2035

Josh Siegel · January 17, 2020 2:00 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, April 29, 2010 file photo, a pair of coal trains idle on the tracks near Dry Fork Station, a coal-fired power plant being built by the Basin Electric Power Cooperative near Gillette, Wyo. The share of U.S. electricity that comes from coal has fallen to its lowest level since World War II. Utilities are aggressively ditching coal in favor of natural gas, which has become cheaper and produces far fewer emissions of toxic chemicals and gases that contribute to climate change.(AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

‘Brutal year for coal’ drives decline in US greenhouse gas emissions in 2019

Abby Smith · January 7, 2020 11:00 am

The Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia is the only large nuclear power plant under construction in the U.S., after years of cost overruns and project delays.

Energy and Environment

German nuclear phaseout is causing 1,100 additional deaths a year: Study

Abby Smith · January 2, 2020 4:22 pm

Former President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M.

Energy and Environment

The 2010s: When energy ‘scarcity’ became ‘abundance’

Josh Siegel · December 28, 2019 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Is Joe Biden trying to lose the Rust Belt?

Kaylee McGhee White · December 20, 2019 6:12 pm