Kelp farms and mammoth windmills are just two of the government’s long-shot energy bets
Thousands of entrepreneurs gathered near Washington for an annual government conference. On the agenda: unusual solutions to major clean-energy problems.
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Electric vehicles are always five years away
Again and again, stories laud the amazing new designs for electric vehicles, including the Aptera, the Solectrica, the Fisker, and the Tesla, and their potential to revolutionize the automobile industry.
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA pick, backed industry donors over regulators
His antipathy to federal regulation — he sued the Environmental Protection Agency 14 times — in many ways defined his tenure as Oklahoma’s attorney general.
Federal plan to auction mineral rights near Great Sands Dunes National Park opposed by environmentalists
Move follows a push by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to hasten energy development on federal lands
Electric cars are becoming increasingly greener in the US thanks to a cleaner electric grid
The argument that electric vehicles are just as polluting as gas-powered vehicles because they consume electricity produced from polluting sources like coal plants has been debunked on many occasions at this point.
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.”
