The U.S. is officially out of the Paris Agreement, a global climate pact that seeks to limit the Earth’s rising temperatures. Trump moved to pull the U.S. from the global agreement on his first day in office. However, the withdrawal takes a year to go into effect and the United Nations said last year that the move would take...
The Trump administration is considering mining off Alaska’s coast, which has never been done before. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the Interior Department, announced Tuesday that it would issue a Request for Information to gauge corporate interest and collect public input on the idea. It said that the request is not...
California sued the Trump administration over its approvals for oil pipelines near the state’s coast amid the White House's broader push for more drilling there. California is arguing that the Trump administration’s moves to restart the pipelines contravene the state’s authority over the vessels. “In its latest unlawful power grab, the Trump Administration is illegally claiming exclusive...
A federal judge ruled Friday against the Trump administration’s freeze on a $5 billion program that seeks to fund the build-out of electric vehicle (EV) chargers. Judge Tana Lin, a former President Biden appointee, barred the Department of Transportation from revoking previously approved state EV charger deployment plans and from withholding funds for the plans....
Seven people were killed and one was seriously injured when a private jet crashed Sunday at Bangor International Airport in Maine, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A Bombardier Challenger 600 crashed “as it was taking off” from the airport at approximately 7:45 p.m. EST, the FAA said in a statement. An initial crash report the FAA...
More than half of the United States is under some sort of winter weather watch or advisory, bringing frigid temperatures to the south of the country and heavy snow to the northeast.
The state of Michigan is suing major oil companies and an industry association, alleging that they colluded to hamper the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). In a lawsuit announced Friday, Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute. It alleged they acted as a “cartel” as part of an effort to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has canceled solar projects in Puerto Rico worth millions of dollars, as the island struggles with chronic power outages and a crumbling electric grid. The projects were aimed at helping 30,000 low-income families in rural areas across the U.S. territory as part...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has deployed teams to three states with a dozen others on standby, as an incoming winter storm threatens much of the country. “The time to prepare is now,” Noem said in a statement released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The...
Officials across the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. have been sounding the alarm about the potential for freezing rain to wreak havoc on power systems.
