President Biden today offered a first look at his fiscal 2022 budget, which marks a sharp break from the Trump era, with major new spending for fighting climate change and promoting clean energy.
The Biden administration has decided against temporarily shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline, dealing a blow to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others who called for the conduit to be drained of oil.
President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan includes measures to build and retrofit affordable, energy-efficient homes, something that efficiency advocates say could alleviate energy and housing insecurity while also creating jobs.
The Interior Department today rescinded a Trump administration legal opinion that set a stricter standard for the permitting of certain offshore projects, including wind farms.
Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, who has criticized public health mandates aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, returned to the Idaho Capitol building yesterday only to be arrested twice in the course of a few hours.
The Biden administration today pitched a big boost for the Interior Department's budget, including significant spending on key climate, jobs and conservation initiatives laid out by the president in recent months.
President Biden today proposed spending on climate change across the entire government with most agencies getting cash for adapting to rising temperatures and slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon pricing supporters are pushing to include the policy in the ongoing infrastructure push, and they appear to have allies in the Biden administration, despite a turbulent political landscape on Capitol Hill.
Methane concentrations in the atmosphere surged at a record rate in 2020, NOAA scientists announced yesterday.
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