Topic: Energy

The Environmental Protection Agency announced a slate of new final new rules that will crack down on pollution released by power plants.

The United States on Wednesday announced that it will be reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil after the government had conceded that the South American country had not gotten close enough to free and fair elections.

Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Charlotte, N.C. on Thursday to announce a historic $20 billion investment in tens of thousands of climate and clean energy projects across the United States.

A dozen people were injured Tuesday in dawn Ukrainian drone strikes on oil-refining and other military-industrial targets deep inside southern Russia.

Russian drone and missile strikes and bombing raids hit targets across Ukraine overnight, killing one and injuring seven and damaging residential districts and critical infrastructure, including three power plants.

The Energy Department Wednesday announced a $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec Palisades to finance restoration and restart of the Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan.

The United States and South Korea launched a task force to counter North Korea's illicit oil smuggling operations, both governments said Wednesday, as Russia appears to be helping the regime circumvent U.N. sanctions.

Texas has joined 15 other states in suing to block the Biden administration's ban on approving applications to export liquefied natural gas exports, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday.

A former Texas energy executive entered into a plea deal last week in connection with a $5.5 million kickback scheme that included employer insider trading.

The consumer price index increased 3.2% over the past year, remaining stubbornly higher than the Federal Reserve benchmark of 2%, but likely not enough to spark an interest rate increase, the Labor Department reported.