State agencies, manufacturers, utilities and others are ramping heat pump adoption efforts, while a Washington state judge on March 21 revoked a passed ballot measure that aimed to retain natural gas use in the state building code.
UPDATE: On April 8. the Trump White House moved to follow China's coal power push, issuing four presidential orders to boost federal support of the sector and remove market barriers.
Jury decides Greenpeace should pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners for defamation, trespassing and other illegal actions involving protests against the pipeline.
Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of long-duration battery storage innovator Form Energy, hit the trifecta last year: completing its first factory in West Virginia with plans to expand this year; getting its first U.S. commercial system installations under way; and gaining an eye-catching $405 million in a private funding round.
US contractor McDermott International Ltd. has been awarded a front-end engineering contract by a unit of Spain-based energy company Repsol to develop the Polok and Chinwol oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana LNG production plant near Lake Charles, now being developed by Woodside Energy Group, is said to be a $27B complex if it is built to five-train capacity.
Re-elected president is set to relax fossil fuel development curbs, including lifting a pause on approvals to build liquefied natural gas export terminals and a broader realignment of permitting and regulatory approaches, but states and advocacy groups are stepping up action on climate change.