Category: Energy
Tesla reaps federal charging dollars and agrees to follow Biden’s rules
The government funding will effectively embed Tesla’s distinctively shaped red-and-white chargers into the experience of not just Tesla drivers, but [...]
Gas export pause could scramble Biden’s chances in Pennsylvania
Democratic Sens. Bob Casey, who is facing reelection this November, and John Fetterman, both argued the pause could hurt their state.
“Sen. Casey and [...]
A bureaucratic printer jam holds up a major Biden climate rule
The delay had stressed out environmental and public health advocates, who still fear a broader bureaucratic bottleneck as the Biden administration hu [...]
Inside a clean energy titan’s fight to kill a climate project
“It just shows you that these companies are not fundamentally allied with the climate movement, not fundamentally on the side of climate progress,” s [...]
Kemp: Biden’s electric vehicle push spawned a backlash
“When the government starts mandating things and pushing people, it turns a lot of people off and that’s what’s happened a lot in the EV marketplace [...]
Biden’s sweeping green vision crashes into reality
But the cuts — and expected EV sales — would accelerate after 2030. By 2032, more than two-thirds of new cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. would [...]
More Republicans now want climate action. But Trump could derail everything.
“We’re not dependent on a standard-bearer outside of the House,” said Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), the chair and founder of the 82-member Conservative [...]
Anxiety builds as deadline for Biden’s environmental rules nears
Advocates of tougher environmental regulations watched as then-President Donald Trump used a previously seldom-invoked statute to
unwind more than a [...]
‘Walk that line’: Climate protesters weigh how fiercely to air their gripes about Biden
Protests decrying the administration’s pro-fossil-fuel actions also run the risk of further demoralizing activists who see any compromises as dooming [...]
The bizarre gas fight that has Republicans pushing for climate action
The clashing messages are an example of the novel controversies being created by the United States’ emergence as an energy superpower — a role that h [...]
Discord among wealthy countries hold up landmark climate victim fund
The upshot: The world’s governments have little to show so far for the
historic deal they reached in November, which set the outlines of a fund that [...]
House Dems game out climate messaging at policy retreat
Top administration officials from the Energy, Transportation and Treasury departments were on hand in Leesburg on Friday to talk up IRA implementatio [...]
Energy regulator’s exit may flummox Biden’s green plans
Or she could choose to stay on until the end of the year — which would give the White House valuable time to nominate a replacement and try to steer [...]
Trump’s long crusade against wind power could come gusting back
“If we had to do that again, coupled with the previous supply chain issues that we’ve already had to reconcile, that could be a death knell to this n [...]
Biden needs his young climate activists. But they’re angry about the war in Gaza.
Pro-cease-fire outbursts have interrupted a series of public appearances by Biden and his aides in recent weeks, including a climate speech Tuesday b [...]