Energy
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Illinois lawmakers push bipartisan energy choice package
State Sen. Javier Cervantes, D-Chicago, said Senate Bill 3979 requires a thorough review of customer bill impacts before large-scale gas transition projects are approved and protects rate-payers from unfair cost increases and shifting.
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Renewable energy program from 2022 law hasn’t launched
The law in question, Assembly Bill 2316, established a renewable energy subscription program for utility ratepayers, as well as a separate community renewable energy program.
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Targeted by lawsuits and demonized, Big Oil signals it’s had enough with fight against California AG
When California Attorney General Rob Bonta set out to sue ExxonMobil, alleging deception in its claims about advanced plastics recycling, he probably didn't expect the company would sue him for defamation. Bonta tried to get the case dismissed, but a federal judge in Texas has given the lawsuit the green light to proceed.
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Energy Department to make $26.5 billion loan to Alabama, Georgia for electric power facilities
The department said the package is expected to lower American energy costs, create thousands of jobs, and increase grid reliability in Georgia and Alabama.
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McCuskey leads group fighting to keep natural gas appliances
The DOE’s amended efficiency standards require natural gas furnaces and commercial water heaters to meet performance thresholds that only condensing appliances can satisfy, effectively banning non-condensing appliances from the market.
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US Supreme Court to hear arguments in climate suit that threatens to cost consumers billions
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oil companies' arguments in a climate lawsuit filed by Boulder, Colorado. Either way the high court ultimately rules, the case could impact energy affordability across the U.S.
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California imports costly gas as companies flee, but lawmakers remain committed to climate policy
Paying more for less: As refineries close, California is forced to import gasoline supplies to meet demand. That raises both gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions. Despite that, California lawmakers appear unwilling to consider policies that will stop chasing the oil and gas industry out of the state.
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Bad River Band appeals of recent ruling approving Line 5 reroute permits
The pipeline transports more than 500,000 barrels of crude oil and natural gas liquids each day through the Bad River Band reservation.
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EPA to reform Biden-era electric bus program that 'forced unsafe and unreliable' transportation
The EPA issued a request for information on a broad range of fuel options that school bus fleets can use, including biofuels, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas and hydrogen.
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Secretary Wright sends message to International Energy Agency: 'Clean up your act, or U.S. is out'
Energy Secretary Chris Wright didn't mince words at a talk at the International Energy Agency ministerial meeting in Paris Wednesday. Wright criticized the agency's net-zero emissions advocacy and again warned if the IEA doesn't reform its practices, the U.S. will withdraw its support.
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Trump: Japan to invest $36B in U.S. energy, mineral projects
The announcement is part of Japan's 2025 agreement to invest $550 billion over the next four years at the direction of the U.S., with the funds aimed at rebuilding and expanding core American industries.
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Climate groups file lawsuit against repeal of endangerment finding, augering a legal showdown
As was expected, the first legal challenge to the Trump administration's repeal of a key climate law, the "endangerment finding," was filed. The repeal provides a path for the Supreme Court to reconsider the 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, which opened the door for the EPA's expansive regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Two dual-fuel plants in North Carolina are in American coal boost
Owned by Duke Energy Carolinas, the investment at Belews Creek Steam Station in the Stokes County community of Sauratown Township is part of a six-project package valued at $175 million.