Mike Pompeo, climate policy foe, picked to replace Tillerson as Secretary of State
Trump fired Rex Tillerson, a former Exxon CEO who supported staying in the Paris climate accord. Pompeo is a Koch brothers ally and climate policy critic.
Trump rollbacks target offshore rules ‘written with human blood’
A dozen miles off the coast, on a rusty, aging platform, workers in hard hats and overalls spend their days extracting oil and gas from the ocean floor before retreating at night into tiny weather-beaten steel cubes that act as dorms.
Judge: Trump administration violated law over smog findings
The Trump administration violated federal law when it failed to meet a deadline to identify all parts of the U.S. that don’t meet air quality standards for smog, a federal judge ruled.
Interior Department will soon launch regulatory process to pursue lease sale in ANWR, officials say
Top Interior Department officials visited two northern Alaska communities this week to tell residents that the agency will soon launch the regulatory process to lease lands to oil drillers in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Schwarzenegger to sue Big Oil for ‘first degree murder’
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s next mission: taking oil companies to court “for knowingly killing people all over the world.”
A new generation of activists, born next to an oil refinery
This 10-square-mile South Los Angeles community, population 50,000, has the dubious distinction of having some of the worst air quality in a city that already has the country’s worst ozone levels.
Tesla Model 3 quality is terrible, but will it matter to buyers?
The build quality of the early Model 3 we tested in late February was, in a word, appalling.
U.S. shale boom has led to big payoffs, but energy independence isn’t one — nor should it be
Energy independence has been a U.S. energy policy unicorn ever since the oil crises of the 1970s. However, true energy independence is not economically feasible or even desirable, owing to the globalization of crude oil markets
White House sets biofuel meeting; Trump will not attend
The White House has made preliminary plans for a meeting on Monday between rivals in the corn and oil industries to discuss potential changes to the nation’s biofuels policy, two sources familiar with the planning told Reuters.
Oil CEO to Trump: Tariffs will help OPEC, hurt U.S. jobs
The oil industry is warning President Trump that steel tariffs could threaten America’s energy boom.
