A multibillion-dollar energy project in South Carolina is now all but dead thanks to a ruling by the Fourth Circuit, which found that the state does not have standing to fight the Energy Department’s closure of a mixed-oxide nuclear processing plant.
Read morePeople living near a Cold War-era rocket fuel testing site and nuclear facility in Southern California want an independent study of toxins in the area even as the federal government released a report Tuesday detailing how it will clean up the site.
Read moreThe state of Nevada has sued the Trump administration to block shipment of more than a metric ton of plutonium from South Carolina to a site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, citing health concerns and the lack of an environmental impact statement.
Read moreForeshadowing a potential win for the Trump administration’s deregulation agenda, a Ninth Circuit judge on Wednesday rejected arguments that the Energy Department intentionally relinquished its power to hold back stricter efficiency standards.
Read moreThe United States is pumping record amounts of oil, vaulting over Russia to become the world’s biggest producer of crude.
Read moreColumbia Riverkeeper brought a federal FOIA complaint against the U.S. Department of Energy for refusing to deliver information on its financial help to a Chinese company that wants to build a fracked-gas-to-methanol refinery on the Columbia River.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy refuses to release documents on its efforts to bail out and favor the coal industry over other more economically and environmentally successful industries, the Sierra Club claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe president will release his proposed 2019 budget early next week, and many expect him to pick up where he left off last year – with hefty blows to renewable energy funding.
Read moreScientific advisory boards across the spectrum of federal government are worse off than at any time in the past 20 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Union for Concerned Scientists.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s indefinite freeze on energy-efficiency standards may be headed for a thaw, a federal judge signaled Thursday.
Read moreThe Sierra Club claims in a federal complaint that energy regulators are six years late when it comes to setting efficiency standards for factory-manufactured homes.
Read moreAn Energy Department report released late Wednesday concluded that coal, gas and nuclear are critical to the resiliency of the nation’s electrical grid, and that federal regulators need to do more to protect those industries.
Read moreThe Trump administration rejected a coal company’s request to invoke a little-used authority to stop coal-fired power plants from closing.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Tuesday rejected an environmental watchdog’s challenge to a liquefied natural gas export terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast, finding that the Energy Department conducted the required environmental reviews before approving the project.
Read moreA leading environmental organization filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy on Monday, claiming the agency illegally withheld documents that would show bias in favor of traditional fossil fuels while conducting a study on the reliability of the U.S. electricity grid.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council and Nuclear Watch filed a federal lawsuit against Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday, claiming the government’s plans to use a half-century-old Tennessee complex for a new uranium processing facility risks a catastrophic nuclear incident in the event of an earthquake.
Read moreComplaining that disposal of its nuclear waste is 50 years behind schedule, Entergy Arkansas sued the U.S. government for breach of a $370 million contract.
Read moreEleven states and the city of New York zapped the U.S. Department of Energy with a federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming its failure to roll out new efficiency standards for appliances will lead to more planet-warming carbon emissions and higher costs for consumers.
Read moreThe Senate on Thursday easily confirmed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the nation’s new secretary of the Department of Energy, leaving President Donald Trump with just two unfilled cabinet seats.
Read moreA nonprofit investigative news organization claims the Department of Energy is withholding nuclear security employee evaluations and records about payments made to contractors at nuclear weapons sites.
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