Nearly two weeks of negotiations ended at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP28, in Dubai’s Expo City. Follow live updates on the summit and negotiation highlights.

The Trump administration approved an oil leasing program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opening up the pristine, 19-million-acre wilderness to drilling for the first time and making it more...

A State Department intelligence analyst has resigned in protest after the White House blocked portions of his written testimony to a congressional panel to exclude data and evidence on climate change...

Renewable energy and market design are easy targets during electricity failures but they are inadequate explanations.

The Biden administration has leased fewer acres for drilling offshore and on federal land than any other administration in its early stages since World War II, according to a Wall Street Journal...

As President Trump pushes to speed construction of the Mexican border wall, both opponents of the wall and his administration are invoking the environment—one side to stop the barrier, and the other...

A fund run by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy will commit $1.5 billion for joint projects with the U.S. government if Congress enacts a program aimed at developing technologies that lower carbon...

The U.S. unveiled plans to tighten rules on oil-and-gas producers over the potent greenhouse gas, with more than 100 countries pledging to curb emissions of the chemical by 30% globally by 2030.

The 2020 presidential election pits one candidate making climate change integral throughout his platform against another who dismisses its importance and pledges to keep pushing a deregulatory agenda.

White House support for carbon-capture projects is hitting opposition in Louisiana, where locals fear the risks and the influence of fossil fuel industries.

The Trump administration’s proposal to vastly expand offshore oil-and-gas drilling has been sidelined indefinitely as the Interior Department grapples with a recent court decision that blocks Arctic...

The $3.5 trillion budget plan is expected to face opposition from parts of the energy industry and their industrial customers over provisions likely to raise their costs.

The Biden administration still opposes the Keystone XL pipeline, but other options could include shipping more oil by rail or expanding pipeline capacity along existing routes.

Republicans criticize his push for alternative-energy sources amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while progressives fear he is abandoning plans to tackle climate change.

The administration sees the program as part of its effort to address climate change through infrastructure improvements needed to expand use of alternative energy.

Americans, cranking up their air conditioners, are helping to break summertime records for daily consumption of natural gas, a contributor to climate change.

The president seeks to rally global support for tough climate measures even as his domestic policy faces uncertainty.

The Biden administration is moving to end a legal battle with California over the state’s authority to regulate motor-vehicle emissions, setting the stage for stricter regulations on the auto...

The decision would be victory for solar installers getting panels from Asian countries, but blow to U.S. solar panel makers.

The Trump administration is exploring a diplomatic push aimed at stabilizing prices, while Texas regulators are thinking about curtailing crude production for the first time in decades.

After years in which billions worth of maintenance backed up across the National Parks system, President Trump is poised to sign a new law that would guarantee an investment larger than anything the...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to use new methane rules to set a higher bar for regulating other emissions that contribute to climate change, according to people familiar with the situat...

Elected on a green platform, the president’s record so far: higher emissions, slowing renewable energy development and rising consumption of oil and coal.

The deal does little for the clean energy transition, and expedites a natural gas pipeline. But it keeps intact spending in Biden’s climate bill -- an early target for the GOP.

Plan by Senate Democrats includes measures lauded by some in the oil-and-gas industry, frustrating GOP lawmakers.

White House officials said they want to fast-track wind-power leasing in federal waters off the New York and New Jersey coasts.

The pact with California is aimed at reducing pollution and heading off future litigation.

The Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into four auto makers that forged a deal with California on vehicle-emissions standards, escalating the conflict between the Trump...

Industrialized countries were already struggling to pay earlier commitments to help with clean-energy development and other infrastructure needs. Now the cost of buying cooperation has skyrocketed.

With only about 50 left, a newly discovered whale in the Gulf of Mexico has led to a big legal battle between the oil industry and the Biden administration.

The controversial pipeline project would be powered by renewable energy and built by union labor in a series of planned overhauls to avoid being axed by the Biden administration.

ConocoPhillips’ oil drilling project, known as Willow, can go forward on Alaska’s North Slope, but with a smaller footprint, says an Interior Department report.

Biden creates a monument near the Grand Canyon, to applause from environmentalists and Native leaders and criticism from mining firms.

The president has rolled out several U.S. initiatives to reduce emissions, but developing nations say he's not doing enough.

The Biden administration is working with greater authority from Congress to go after asbestos and 20 of the most toxic chemicals. But this new effort has been hampered by legal questions, political...

Major oil companies are working hard to articulate a vision for their future, but the energy sector’s poor performance shows that many investors aren’t buying it.

Joe Biden’s plans to make climate change a major focus of his administration if he wins the White House would have significant ramifications for both businesses and consumers.

The president signed executive orders to suspend new oil and gas leases on federal land and commit the government to conservation and other initiatives.

More than 40 corporations, including Amazon, Citigroup and Ford, said in a letter to Congress that they supported the U.S. rejoining the Paris climate accord.

Miners want a 211-mile road in remote Alaska, through one of the wildest national parks. It pits President Biden's climate agenda against his conservation plan.

The Trump administration is moving to erase Obama-era rules on methane emissions from the oil-and-gas business, saying the government overstepped its authority when it set limits on what scientists...

The Biden administration is preparing a proposal it hopes won’t run afoul of the Supreme Court.

Plan by Senate Democrats includes measures lauded by some in the oil-and-gas industry, frustrating GOP lawmakers.

The American Petroleum Institute’s proposal urges Congress to adopt a carbon tax, which would put a surcharge on gasoline and other fossil fuels to discourage greenhouse-gas emissions.

High energy prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine give the coal-state lawmaker leverage on measures to promote fossil fuels.

Newly confirmed Biden cabinet member Jennifer Granholm looks to reinvigorate a $40 billion energy loan program left untouched under the Trump administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to end requirements that oil and gas producers detect and fix greenhouse-gas emissions.