EPA delays rule to cut carbon from new coal power plants
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has vowed to overturn the emissions rules.
View ArticleOn Senate’s to-do list: Keystone, climate change, crude exports
The Senate is gearing up to debate a host of energy industry priorities to start 2015.
View ArticleCruz to push crude exports
Sen. Ted Cruz is set to offer a proposal to lift the 40-year-old crude export ban, despite skepticism from both critics and supporters of the trade restrictions.
View ArticleSenate on track to pass Keystone XL bill
After clearing a major procedural hurdle Thursday, the chamber was expected to pass the legislation authorizing Keystone XL. But the story is far from over for the legislation or the underlying...
View ArticleObama vetoes Keystone XL bill
The fight over the $8 billion project is far from over, with Republicans vowing to try again to force construction and a White House spokesman stressing that Obama's veto does not foreclose an eventual...
View ArticleSenate clashes with Obama on Keystone XL veto
Senate champions of Keystone XL failed to override President Barack Obama's veto of legislation that would authorize the pipeline on Wednesday.
View ArticleTop Senate Republican tells states: ignore EPA carbon rules
In an op-ed published Tuesday in the Lexington Herald-Leader, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says states should reject Obama's proposed requirements for power plants to reduce carbon...
View ArticleMitch McConnell endorses oil exports, calling ban “a relic of the ’70s”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comments endorsing oil exports were his most declarative yet on the issue, but he didn't outline specific plans for advancing the issue on Capitol Hill.
View ArticleAs oil producers eye deals on exports, some traditional allies fight back
The warnings arrive as oil producers lobbying for the freedom to widely export crude look for strategies to propel the trade policy change through the narrowly divided Senate.
View ArticleOil industry throws support behind energy reform bill
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said Thursday his group "strongly supports" the legislation, named the Energy Policy...
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