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A potential front-runner is already emerging from President Trump's Supreme Court short list in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death yesterday: Amy Coney Barrett.

The Forest Service needs to double or triple its ability to respond to wildfires, as part of a broad approach to the growing risk in the West, an agency official told lawmakers yesterday.

Ohio's top lawyer has sued to block the payment of more than $1 billion in nuclear subsidies to Energy Harbor, the former FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary that runs two nuclear plants in the state.

The oil business is beginning to recover from the pandemic-induced slowdown, but it's still contracting and some of the industry's leaders are growing pessimistic about the future.

Nearly 500 former U.S. military and national security leaders across party lines endorsed Joe Biden for president today and cited climate change as one of the main reasons.

The first presidential debate of the 2020 general election cycle won't have climate change on the agenda.

The Danish energy company Ørsted had plans to expand its oil and gas business 12 years ago. A failed stock listing and growing confidence among climate scientists made it into a leader on renewable energy instead.

This could have been the year of the first real climate change election. It probably won't be. But at least some environmental advocates are not sweating people being focused on other priorities.

If President Trump is able to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he may stymie climate action for generations to come.

The Trump administration's pick to become NOAA's new chief scientist is a meteorologist who frequently criticizes "climate alarmists," according to media reports and a source with knowledge of the appointment.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos promised in February to pour at least $10 billion of his personal fortune into fighting climate change, and that the effort would "begin issuing grants this summer."

The Bureau of Land Management is temporarily withdrawing 347,525 acres from a planned Wyoming oil and gas lease sale set for next week because the 282 parcels in question intersect greater sage grouse habitat.

Reps. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) are plotting a bipartisan clean energy standard bill that would also invest heavily in carbon capture and offer new incentives for renewables and nuclear, according to draft legislation...

Former House Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton is joining forces with Bud Albright, his former committee staff director and onetime Energy undersecretary, to take on consulting and lobbying work.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday voted 2-1 to remove market barriers for rooftop solar and other distributed energy resources in a long-awaited move that could boost technologies including electric vehicles to "smart" appliances.