Outgoing 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.
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Facing scrutiny about his role in Ukraine dealings that have driven a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump, Energy Secretary Rick Perry will resign his office. Before that can happen, the clock for Perry to answer a House subpoena runs down Friday.
Read moreEnergy Secretary Rick Perry will leave his job by the end of the year, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Read moreAs Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of people with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic. Their aims were profit, not politics.
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 moreEnergy Secretary Rick Perry is under fire for statements he made in a public forum Thursday suggesting the proliferation of fossil fuels help prevent sexual assault.
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Advocates of renewable energy teamed up with proponents of natural gas to challenge a plan that would prop up aging nuclear and coal-powered electric producers.
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.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been fooled by a pair of Russian pranksters impersonating the prime minister of Ukraine.
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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 moreRick Perry, Texas’ longest-serving former governor and the nation’s current energy secretary, questioned the legitimacy of Texas A&M University’s student government election that produced his alma mater’s first openly gay student body president.
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 moreRick Perry, the former governor of Texas, came before the Senate on Thursday to be confirmed as secretary for a department he once forgot existed.
Read moreFormer Texas Gov. Rick Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Energy, an agency he once proposed eliminating.
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