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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., shown here at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in December, sought a review of the carbon capture tax credit program.

Treasury IG: A decade of carbon-capture tax credits were faulty

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted April 30, 2020 at 5:48pm
A Mobil gas station in Washington.

Fed change allows oil companies to qualify for recovery loans

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 30, 2020 at 3:54pm
Coal miners attended a June ceremony where Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Wheeler signed the Affordable Clean Energy final rule at EPA headquarters.

Citing pandemic, coal lobby seeks lower tax for black-lung care

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 28, 2020 at 3:22pm
A mural with figures from Texas Revolution is featured on the side of an oil storage tank at the Vopak Terminal Deer Park in Houston on Tuesday.

Oil markets’ crash raises tough questions for the industry’s future

By Elvina Nawaguna, Benjamin J. Hulac and Caroline Tanner
Posted April 22, 2020 at 6:00am
Gasoline prices are displayed at at a service station off of I-95 in Oxon Hill, Md., last Thursday.

Trump vows to bolster oil industry, but it isn’t asking for help

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 21, 2020 at 6:03pm
An oil pumpjack operates near Long Beach, Calif. as oil prices traded in negative territory for the first time on Monday.

Oil prices fall below zero and Trump sees a buying opportunity

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 20, 2020 at 5:34pm, Updated at 9:20pm
Oil rigs near Port Fourchon, La., in 2010. Top political officials at agencies that regulate energy issues and the environment have been particularly active during the coronavirus pandemic in pursuing policies with repercussions that will likely stretch for years.

EPA and Interior ease rules amid pandemic as repeal window nears

By Benjamin J. Hulac, Caroline Tanner and Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 20, 2020 at 6:00am
Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden.

Shell is latest to pledge net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050

By Laura Weiss
Posted April 17, 2020 at 5:22pm
Emissions from coal-fired power plants dropped dramatically during the pandemic.

EPA finalizes eased mercury emissions rule

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 16, 2020 at 3:19pm
An ethanol biomass refinery plant.

Oil-state governors seek renewable fuel waiver for refiners

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted April 16, 2020 at 1:33pm