Trump

U.S. Renews Waiver on COSCO's Dalian Tanker Unit Hit by Iran Sanctions

The Trump administration on Thursday renewed a waiver for companies to wind down transactions with the Dalian unit of a Chinese tanker company on which it had i…

Clean emission

White House:Sticking with 2020 Biofuel Plan, Despite Farmer Objections

The Trump administration plans to stick with its proposed 2020 biofuel blending requirements, the White House said on Wednesday, despite anger among farmers tha…

Crude

Trump Claims To Have Taken Control Of Middle East Oil

“We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East, the oil that we’re talking about, the oil that everybody was worried about. We have the U.S. control of t…

Industry Groups Urge White House to Finish Overhauling U.S. Environmental Review Process

More than 30 industry groups called on the Trump administration to finish a regulatory overhaul that would make it easier to clear federal environmental approva…

Six Scientific Journals Denounce Trump Environmental Reform

The editors-in-chief of six major scientific review journals on Tuesday denounced a pending US regulation that would limit the scientific process for developing…

Grassley Pushes Trump, EPA to make Changes that will Restore Biofuels Demand

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he met with President Donald Trump this week to push for changes that would restore demand for renewable fuel lost to oi…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

States Versus the Union: How Could the ACE Rule Impact US Energy?

22 US states have sued the Trump administration for its attempts to replace an Obama-era law with a new bill that would give states greater power over their own…

Crude

Who benefits from Syria's oil?

President Donald Trump says he expects the United States to benefit by millions of dollars per month from Syria's oil revenues while US troops remain in the cou…

Thermal Plant

A Massive Coal Plant That Asked for Trump's Help Has Gone Dark

In the end, the unraveling economics of U.S. coal proved too much for even a giant among power generators to handle.

Coal Power

Trump Energy Pick to Face Questions on Coal, Nuclear Power

President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Energy Department, Dan Brouillette, will face questions at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday on issues …

U.S to Relax Two Obama-era Rules on Coal-Ash Pollution

The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to relax two Obama-era rules on how power plants store waste from burning coal and release…

Trump Makes U-turn on Fuel Economy Standards

President Trump is backing off a controversial freeze of fuel economy standards, marking a dramatic shift in his rollback of Obama-era clean car rules, accordin…

Big Oil, Big Corn both Blast Trump Biofuel Plan

Corn farmers, ethanol producers, refinery representatives, energy traders and state and local officials from the Midwest all blasted the Trump administration’s…

Crude

Russia: US Smuggling Syrian Oil Worth $30 million a Month

Russia has slammed President Donald Trump's plan to deploy troops into Syrian oil fields as “criminal activity,” accusing the US of seeking to smuggle out oil…

Critics Set to Unload on Trump Administration Biofuel Proposal

Representatives of both the oil and corn industries are poised to sound off against the Trump administration’s proposed biofuels plan for next year during a pu…