White House to Support New US Nuclear Power Plants May 30, 2024 By Nichola Groom and Trevor Hunnicutt The White House on Wednesday planned to announce new measures to support the development of new U.S. nuclear power plants,...
US Natural Gas Pipeline Accidents Pose Big, Unreported Climate Threat March 13, 2024 By Nichola Groom Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch pipeline buried under a field, sending...
Biden’s Clean Energy Agenda Faces Mounting Headwinds November 27, 2023 By Nichola Groom and Jarrett Renshaw Canceled offshore wind projects, imperiled solar factories, fading demand for electric vehicles. A year after passage of the largest climate...
Biden’s Carbon Proposal is Unworkable, Power Sector Warns August 9, 2023 By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici U.S. power plant owners warned the Biden administration on Tuesday that its sweeping plan to slash carbon emissions from the...
U.S. Seeks to Restore Safety Rules Sparked by Gulf Oil Spill September 13, 2022 By Nichola Groom The Biden administration on Monday proposed offshore drilling safety measures that it said would help prevent oil spills and protect...
U.S. Solar Industry Warns of Slowdown Due to Supply Chain Disruptions, Tariff Uncertainty May 3, 2022 By Nichola Groom The U.S. solar industry is warning of a big slowdown in project installations this year as global supply chain disruptions...
Judge Blocks Biden Order on Calculating Climate Risks in Government Decisions February 14, 2022 By Nichola Groom A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of...
Climate Change Could Fuel Atmospheric Rivers, Which Caused Recent Canada Floods November 22, 2021 By Nichola Groom Atmospheric rivers of the kind that drenched California and flooded British Columbia in recent weeks will become larger — and...
White House to Assist Drought-Plagued Western U.S. Communities April 22, 2021 By Nichola Groom The White House on Wednesday announced an effort to provide immediate support to farmers, tribes and communities suffering from worsening...
California Toughens PG&E Wildfire Safety Oversight April 16, 2021 By Nichola Groom California officials on Thursday voted to toughen oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric, saying the utility had largely failed to...