A top DOE official defends the halt as needed to determine if more capacity will affect environmental impacts and global gas prices—but a House-passed bill that removes agency approval authority now is up for Senate consideration.
Shailen P. Bhatt, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Highway Administration, got through his Senate confirmation hearing with strong support and no visible signs of opposition.
U.S. must scale up critical minerals recycling, technology and component manufacture, said experts at a Senate committee's second focus in a week on EV and clean energy supply chain vulnerability.
Biden nominee for DOE chief, who cited 10M jobs goal when pressed on fossil-fuel impacts by wary Republicans, is set for full Senate vote this month, as is R.I. Gov. Gina Raimondo, Commerce Secretary designate and a clean energy proponent. Both cleared committees on Feb. 3.
After several minor-to-moderate earthquakes shook the U.S. interior in 2011, a number of reports suggested a link between hydraulic fracturing—a technique used to extract natural gas from shale-gas deposits—and increased seismic activity in areas typically not prone to such events.
