Author: Breanne Deppisch

The Biden administration on Thursday launched its long-awaited $8.5 billion home energy efficiency rebate program, the first step in its effort to help consumers upgrade older, fossil fuel devices in favor of new and more energy-efficient models. The program was created under the Inflation Reduction Act nearly a year ago. SENATE VOTES TO KEEP CHINA…

The Supreme Court on Thursday vacated judicial stays on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, siding with the developers of the 303-mile natural gas pipeline and allowing construction to proceed. The order vacates two stays of construction handed down earlier this month by the Fourth Circuit Court. Pipeline developers filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court…

The wildfires ravaging Canada are releasing unprecedented rates of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, scientists said, more than doubling the combined emissions from all other sectors in the country. So far this summer, wildfires burning in Canada’s forests have released roughly 1,420 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere, according to preliminary data…

Top House Republicans demanded information Thursday on the partnership between Ford Motor Company and the Chinese battery maker CATL, citing new information about the licensing agreement that they said raised concerns over the battery maker’s ties to forced labor. In the letter to Ford, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the House Select Committee…

The state of New Jersey filed a court challenge on Friday against New York’s congestion pricing plan, the high-profile tolling effort that could charge drivers up to $23 to enter central Manhattan during peak hours. The lawsuit challenges the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration’s decision to approve the congestion toll under…

The Senate voted on Thursday to bar China from purchasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to protect the U.S. emergency stockpile after it was drained to a 40-year low. Lawmakers voted 85 to 14 to pass the legislation, which was introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) as…

President Joe Biden is slated to announce the first offshore wind rights sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday in an effort to advance the administration’s goal of developing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030. The Interior Department said the sale would take place on Aug. 29, and include a more than…

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry called on the United States and China on Wednesday to separate climate policy from other diplomatic tensions between the two nations, calling it a “universal threat” during his last day in Beijing. Speaking to Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Wednesday, Kerry said climate change is a “free-standing” challenge to…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court on Tuesday in support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, hoping to join project developers in the emergency application seeking to vacate the stay that was granted this month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The 4th Circuit handed…

Republicans on the House Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing Tuesday on the Department of Energy’s proposed appliance efficiency standards aimed at regulating home kitchen appliances, arguing that the efforts will be costly and burdensome. The hearing comes after the DOE unveiled in February its new “Energy Policy and…