Biden Cabinet Nominees at Energy, UN on Track for Approval
It is a bonanza of confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, including hearings vetting his pick to lead the Energy Department.
Read moreIt is a bonanza of confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, including hearings vetting his pick to lead the Energy Department.
Read moreThe U.S. government said Thursday that Idaho is its preferred choice ahead of Tennessee for a test reactor to be built as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants.
Read moreCounting dozens of outdated energy efficiency standards, 14 states plus New York City and Washington, D.C., accused the U.S. Department of Energy in a federal complaint Monday of frustrating their efforts to realize their climate change policy goals.
Read moreComplaining that Trump’s Energy Department has missed efficiency-standard deadlines for more than two dozen consumer and commercial products, six nonprofits brought a federal complaint to force its hand.
Read moreU.S. officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on quantum computing technology.
Read moreSpeaking before a House panel Tuesday, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette defended his department’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and also emphasized the importance of securing the national energy grid.
Read moreA federal watchdog says the U.S. government needs to do a better job of planning for climate change threats to contaminated sites across the country where the government once developed nuclear weapons and researched nuclear energy.
Read moreLeading a coalition of states and New York City, California sued the Trump administration Tuesday claiming the federal government has made alterations to energy conservation standards that hurt consumers and lead to more pollution.
Read moreEnergy Department released Tuesday night offer the latest look into the roles senior administration officials, including former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, were tapped to play on a White House-approved delegation to Ukraine last year.
Read moreAccusing the Trump administration of suppressing politically inconvenient research, environmentalists filed suit Thursday to unearth a taxpayer-funded study on the electricity grid.
Read moreCoeur Rochester sued the U.S. Department of Energy in federal court, claiming its long-delayed yet still hasty and sloppy regulations on mercury storage and disposal are irrational and illegal.
Read moreThe American Bird Conservancy sued the Department of Energy and Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, claiming their funding and authorization of the offshore Icebreaker Wind Project in Lake Erie “presents serious risks to millions of birds and bats per year that migrate through the Project area.”
Read moreOutgoing U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Saturday that he asked President Donald Trump to make the phone call at the center of the impeachment inquiry because it was “important” for the country’s energy needs and had nothing to do with former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter.
Read moreEnergy Secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Read moreThe Trump administration cannot indefinitely freeze Obama-era energy efficiency standards that are expected to cut carbon emissions and save billions of dollars in energy costs, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ruled against Nevada in a battle with the federal government over its secret shipment of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas, but the state’s attorney general says the fight isn’t over yet.
Read moreNevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department to look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert.
Read moreA malicious cyberattack in March disrupted the California, Utah and Wyoming electrical utility systems for several hours. No customers lost power and it only affected internal system operations, but it was enough to raise concerns about a more damaging and widespread attack on the electric grid.
Read moreSenator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said Thursday that the U.S. faces a narrow window to becoming a global leader in the natural gas market.
Read moreDiving into a decades-long stalemate, federal lawmakers considered three bills Thursday that take different approaches to the storage and disposal of America’s nuclear waste.
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