The regulations would be the first federal rules to protect workers from dangerous temperatures. But Donald Trump might be president before they take effect.
The decision to stay the LNG pause upends one of Joe Biden’s major policy nods to climate-focused activists who have accused the president of not doing enough to mitigate planet-warming emissions.
“It’s astonishing to see a forecast for a major (Category 3+) hurricane in June anywhere in the Atlantic, let alone this far east in the deep tropics," one storm expert tweeted.
The statement comes after years of conservatives laying the groundwork for Trump to withdraw from the global agreement intended to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.
Trump also criticized government mandates toward the purchase of electric vehicles during Thursday's address to GOP senators, echoing an often-repeated line on the campaign trail.
The new CAFE standards for the popular classes of vehicles will require more modest mileage improvements than the Biden administration had called for last year.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm later acknowledged that the real-world impact of Biden’s massive spending initiatives has been slower than some would like.
Lummis argued the unspent dollars from the climate bill would be better spent in preventing the Social Security fund from running out of money in the future.
“Just like the ACA, this is part of our ecosystem,” said Perez, the director of the White House’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, during POLITICO’s Energy Summit.
Biden's opponents would not just stall the efforts to fight climate change, they would reverse the progress the Biden administration has made, White House chief climate adviser Ali Zaidi warns.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi, Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and FERC Chair Willie Phillips are among the speakers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute have said they'd go to bat for the Inflation Reduction Act. Or at least the provisions they like.
The investigation marks the Democrats' latest salvo against the oil industry just as executives have increased their contributions to the former president's run against Joe Biden.
Andrew Wheeler also doesn't rule out returning for Trump 2.0: ‘Whenever a president or a governor asks you to do something for your country, you step up and you do it.’
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge blocked a critical shipping lane, leaving the small town of Curtis Bay with an open-air coal mound that's piling up. Residents worry how the stockpile may affect air quality.