Trump's EPA pick worked for Qatari-led firm tied to Menendez corruption case

23 January 2025 at 08:48

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin’s financial disclosures show his firm was paid by Heritage Advisors, which was linked to the case that brought down the New Jersey senator last year.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote Thursday on Lee Zeldin's nomination to be the EPA administrator.

What Trump’s exit from the climate deal really means

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Sara Schonhardt， Zack Colman and Karl Mathiesen

21 January 2025 at 02:55

Quitting the Paris Agreement triggers a cascade of real-world impacts and signals the beginning of an aggressive agenda to undo U.S. climate policy.

President Donald Trump speaks Monday after taking the oath of office during the 60th presidential inauguration in the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Trump to withdraw from Paris climate agreement

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman

21 January 2025 at 02:16

The decision delivers a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.

President Donald Trump salutes during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025.

Tesla built Musk’s vast wealth through climate credits. Trump may end them.

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Corbin Hiar

19 January 2025 at 00:00

The president-elect has asked Elon Musk to wage war on regulations — some of which helped make Tesla the world’s most valuable automaker.

An aerial view of the Tesla Fremont Factory in Fremont, California, on April 24, 2024.

Interior nominee Burgum calls for 'clean coal' to power AI

Politico | Energy & Environment

17 January 2025 at 00:41

Lee and Heinrich trade jabs over Energy nominee documents

Politico | Energy & Environment

16 January 2025 at 00:41

The LA county wildfires could be the costliest in US history, early estimates say

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Associated Press

12 January 2025 at 09:20

The destructive blazes have killed at least 11 people and incinerated more than 12,000 structures since Tuesday.

Kevin Marshall sifts through his mother's fire-ravaged property in the the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Jan. 11.

Trump's plan for new energy council beset by infighting

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman and Ben Lefebvre

10 January 2025 at 07:15

The council that would steer the country toward "energy dominance" is facing questions about who would lead it and how wide its power would be.

President-elect Donald Trump's National Energy Council is encountering growing pains before it even gets off the ground.

Trump says he wants 'no windmills' built during his administration

Politico | Energy & Environment

8 January 2025 at 06:41

Trump's oil promises have bigger problems than Biden's new offshore drilling ban

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Ben Lefebvre and Zack Colman

7 January 2025 at 23:00

President Joe Biden's move to protect offshore areas is largely symbolic, but the economic factors that may limit oil output gains are very real.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall on Oct. 14, 2024, in Oaks, Pennsylvania, as moderator South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem listens.

Biden to block new offshore drilling along most US coastline

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman

5 January 2025 at 01:55

The move may complicate Republican efforts to speed lease sales for oil and gas exploration in federal waters.

President Joe Biden will take action on Monday to block future offshore oil and gas drilling across much of the U.S. coastline.

At EPA, Trump’s second term is already having consequences

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Annie Snider and Alex Guillén

3 January 2025 at 02:11

Any significant exodus of staff, either through retirement, resignation or termination, could devastate key EPA functions.

Ahead of a second term that Donald Trump and his advisers have said will be more aggressive in targeting the “deep state,” many EPA employees are considering whether now is the time to leave.

Puerto Rico hit by near-total blackout

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Gloria Gonzalez

1 January 2025 at 01:45

Power had been restored for about 336,000 of Puerto Rico's 1.5 million customers as of 6:00 p.m., but LUMA Energy said the full restoration process could take one to two days.

Traffic lights are out of service during a blackout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 7, 2022. Puerto Rico experiences frequent power disruptions due to the instability of the power grid.

Jimmy Carter’s conservation legacy

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Rob Hotakainen

31 December 2024 at 04:37

The 39th U.S. president led the fight to preserve vast swaths of Alaskan wilderness. It forever changed the state and the National Park Service.

President Jimmy Carter holds up the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act after signing it into law at a ceremony at the White House in Washington on Dec. 2, 1980.

Undeterred: Energy firms pursue Mozambique projects despite massacre report

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman and Ben Lefebvre

31 December 2024 at 01:00

Exxon Mobil and others remain engaged in the African nation, amid claims that oil and gas projects stir unrest.

After POLITICO reported on the deaths, European lawmakers and human rights activists called for investigations into the killings and the actions of the French energy giant TotalEnergies, which denies any culpability.

Romney’s climate legacy: A champion with few results

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Emma Dumain

29 December 2024 at 05:00

Climate-minded Republicans still give credit to the retiring senator for speaking up on the matter.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Dec. 11. He blamed Democrats for a "missed opportunity" on a carbon tax.

From Nuremberg to now: How a war crimes trial in Sweden is changing legal history

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Alex Perry

26 December 2024 at 05:00

Prosecutors are using “universal jurisdiction” to hold companies to account for their operations overseas.

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What has Biden wrought?

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Jessie Blaeser， Benjamin Storrow and Kelsey Tamborrino

24 December 2024 at 04:00

He had just a single term to try to transform the nation's approach to energy, climate change, technology and jobs. What does he leave behind?

Trump and California draw battle lines around electric cars

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Alex Nieves and Mike Lee

19 December 2024 at 23:00

The Biden administration’s approval of California’s electric vehicle mandate sets up a protracted fight.

President Joe Biden sits in a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 as he tours the 2022 North American International Auto Show at Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit on Sept. 14, 2022.

Biden strengthens US climate goal before Trump takes office

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Sara Schonhardt

19 December 2024 at 18:24

The move will almost certainly be reversed by the incoming president.

President Joe Biden announced a new climate goal Thursday, about a month before leaving office.

Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car

Politico | Energy & Environment

By David Ferris， Alex Nieves and Alex Guillén

19 December 2024 at 03:00

His agencies are leveraging California's vast market power to prod the auto industry to ramp up production of battery-powered vehicles — regardless of what Trump wants.

President Joe Biden looks at an electric Ford Mustang Mach-E while touring the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Sept. 14, 2022.

Biden administration gas export report could upset Trump energy policy

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Ben Lefebvre

18 December 2024 at 03:34

The Energy Department assessments homes in on the economic risks to warn that exporting more gas could raise domestic energy costs.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm talks during a session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit on Nov. 15, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

‘Everyone’s demoralized.’ Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman and Chelsea Harvey

14 December 2024 at 00:47

Researchers attending the American Geophysical Union conference worry their work could disappear when a president who rejects climate science takes office.

President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax and claimed that rising seas would create more coastal property.

NOAA: 2024 temperatures set to break last year's global record

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman

13 December 2024 at 02:42

The new heat record comes as Donald Trump prepares to return to office and undo the Biden administration's efforts to combat climate change.

2024 will be the hottest-ever recorded, beating the mark set last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

Climate summit ends with a long-fought deal — and a lot of anger

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Sara Schonhardt， Zia Weise， Zack Colman and Karl Mathiesen

24 November 2024 at 09:27

Developing nations got a promise of at least $300 billion a year in climate finance from rich countries such as the U.S. and the EU’s members. They wanted far more.

Mohamed Adow, director of the think tank Power Shift Africa, speaks to reporters Saturday during the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

What the ‘show me the money’ climate summit tells us about the new Trump era

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman

24 November 2024 at 08:42

Big-money pledges will be even harder to trust. Fossil fuel producers have more leverage. China is ascendant.

Participants at the COP29 climate summit on Saturday walk past activists urging public climate finance for poor countries.

Climate summit approves divisive $300B deal

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Karl Mathiesen

24 November 2024 at 06:42

The pledged financing from the U.S., EU and other wealthy governments includes hopes for private money — and a Trump-sized asterisk.

Efforts to craft a deal at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan stretched to early Sunday, two days after its scheduled close, as parties remained divided on how much climate financing rich nations would promise to provide poorer ones.

The global climate race is all but over — and China is winning

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman and Sara Schonhardt

23 November 2024 at 01:00

Dominance of clean energy technology has allowed China to cement its influence with developing nations, overwhelming more meager efforts by the U.S. and Europe.

President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru.

Climate proposal would see rich countries pay $250B a year

Politico | Energy & Environment

By Zack Colman， Karl Mathiesen， Zia Weise and Sara Schonhardt

22 November 2024 at 19:45

The draft agreement comes with many uncertainties about which nations will provide how much financing to poorer countries, especially with a new Trump era looming in the U.S.

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