The Oregon case was the first legal test for an approach Democrat-led states are using to hold producers responsible for their plastic waste. A federal judge on Thursday upheld Oregon’s plastic ...

SpaceX will build a massive rocket launch site in rural southern Louisiana, unveiling plans Tuesday for a $100 billion project that could transform the region’s economy and fragile wetlands. Situated ...

The Trump administration’s next major step toward dismantling federal climate regulation has been stalled at the White House for more than three months. A looming Supreme Court case may help explain ...

The Trump administration has doled out billions for mining and critical mineral processing companies. Democrats are eager to win back Congress and turn up the oversight screws, investigating any ties ...

OpenAI’s bid to build a sprawling $20 billion data center near the Georgia coast has hit a snag with utility regulators and the state’s largest power provider. Georgia Power on Thursday voluntarily ...

Electric vehicles displaced 1.5 million barrels of oil a day in China during the second quarter of the year, nearly doubling expectations, according to the International Energy Agency. The growth ...

A three-judge panel Tuesday rejected the Biden administration’s efforts to pass a streamlined rulemaking to set the first federal energy efficiency standards for consumer ovens, stoves and cooktops.

Gov. Greg Abbott told state regulators and Texas’ main power grid operator to stop approving connections for data centers until an audit is done. Data center developers and critics are reckoning with ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is among the leaders calling for a pause, which could spell trouble for data centers hungry for electricity. Powerful Texas Republicans are asking state regulators to pause a $33 ...

The jockeying for Democrats’ future blueprint on climate and clean energy has begun. A collection of former Biden administration officials, academics and policy experts on Thursday released what they ...

The number of companies, associations and groups that reported lobbying on data centers has doubled since last year. The number of companies, associations and advocacy groups lobbying around data ...

The power giant’s move to buy Dominion Energy reflects its plans to become the utility of choice at the epicenter of the AI boom. NextEra Energy is trying to position itself as the electricity source ...