The Energy Department has preliminarily cited the cleanup contractor at its shuttered Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant in Ohio for violating radiation protection requirements, saying longstanding software problems caused “under-reporting” of...
Amid growing pressure from environmental activists, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont last week came out against a new 650-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant proposed in the state, even though some agencies under his control already have approved key...
Over objections from some green groups and consumer advocates, the California Public Utilities Commission has cleared a path for sale of renewable natural gas by the nation’s largest gas distributor, approving a proposal by Southern California Gas...
Charles Verdon, lead official for defense programs in the National Nuclear Security Administration, has been named acting administrator of the semi-autonomous Energy Department nuclear weapons agency and has been asked to stay on by the Biden...
A little-noticed part of Biden’s executive climate order last week proposed to impose federal oversight on pollution from all oil and gas drillers in Pennsylvania and parts of Texas, California, Connecticut and New York, saying those states have...
President Biden last week named Elizabeth Klein, a former Interior Department official in the Obama and Clinton administration, as deputy secretary of the agency and former Earthjustice attorney Marissa Knodel as advisor to Interior...
Only nine months after it lost a court fight over fees it sought to impose for asserted cost-shifting favoring rooftop solar customers in Kansas, Evergy is again facing heat over a new proposal to charge a “grid access fee” that critics say primarily...
The Interior Department earlier this month advanced the South Fork offshore wind farm by issuing a draft environmental impact statement for the 130-megawatt project off the tip of Long Island, making it only the second offshore wind farm after the...