Author: Jeremy Beaman Washington Examiner

The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to lift restrictions on the sale of gasoline containing 15% corn-based ethanol in eight Midwestern states, allowing the blend to be sold year-round rather than just eight months out of the year. The EPA’s proposed rule, announced Wednesday, is a win for the ethanol lobby and corn-state lawmakers,…

Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced a measure Tuesday to cancel a key Biden administration rule that defines what water bodies are subject to federal regulation. Republicans have argued the Biden rule is too onerous and too easily exposes landowners, farmers, and others to litigation for seeking to carry out even routine…

House Republicans are having their first go at energy “permitting reform” of the new Congress, an issue that dominated the waning days of the previous session and remains one of a handful of issues for which there’s considerable bipartisan support. The House Natural Resources Committee is holding initial legislative hearings Tuesday to consider a suite…

The Interior Department revised down its estimate of the total number of unused federal drilling permits, which the Biden administration used much of last year as a basis to criticize oil and gas producers for not increasing output to reduce high energy prices. The latest data still show lessees maintain thousands of unused drilling permits…

Business interests on the Gulf Coast are hopeful the start of federal offshore wind leasing activities there can further strengthen the region’s footprint as a critical energy producer. The Biden administration just proposed the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. It was welcome news…

The Interior Department finalized plans to hold its next offshore oil and gas lease sale in March, one of three lease sales to be ordered by Democrats’ energy and healthcare spending law passed in August. The previously canceled Gulf of Mexico lease sale will be the first for the region since November 2021, when Interior…

The nation’s largest grid operator is warning it may face a major coming shortfall in electric generating capacity as utilities retire more and more traditional fossil fuel power plants. It’s a challenge facing grid operators across the country as power generators mothball coal and natural gas-fired plants for various reasons, such as reducing high maintenance…

The Biden administration announced plans to carry out the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico in service of its goal to facilitate the installation of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030. The White House announced the proposed lease sale Wednesday morning. It would be the fourth offshore wind lease…

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the first-ever certification Friday of a small modular reactor design, a big step in the process of developing a new generation of new and more flexible nuclear reactors. SAMSUNG ADVANCES PLANS FOR FLOATING OFFSHORE NUCLEAR PLANT From left to right: NuScale President and CEO John Hopkins, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz…

Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s (R-VA) decision that Virginia will not compete for a planned Ford-owned battery factory due to the legacy automaker’s business relationship with a Chinese battery giant drew a clear political line in the sand at a time when states are aggressively competing for new manufacturing jobs no matter the developer’s national origin. The…