Energy

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Could Be Rough.

Grids Are Surviving the Storm. But the Next 5 Years Cou...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

A group that monitors the U.S. electricity system warns that grid reliability is...

A Chevron Refinery May Take in More Venezuelan Oil. Its Neighbors Are Concerned.

A Chevron Refinery May Take in More Venezuelan Oil. It...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

The American claim on Venezuela’s oil means even more of it could come to a huge...

Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects

Trump Administration Is Delaying Hundreds of Wind and S...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

Federal agencies are delaying approvals for renewable energy projects on both fe...

Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fossil Fuels

Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Targeting Critics of Fos...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

The court ruled that it was unconstitutional to bar state agencies from investin...

Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Legal Battles

Climate ‘Superfund’ Bills Spread Nationwide, Despite Le...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

The laws aim to force oil companies to help pay for damage from global warming. ...

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Of...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Feb 2, 2026 - 15:54

The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of Ne...

Lukoil Gas Station Franchisees Caught in a Fight Between US and Russia

Lukoil Gas Station Franchisees Caught in a Fight Betwee...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 30, 2026 - 15:55

After the United States imposed sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil producers,...

D.O.E. Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

D.O.E. Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, ...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 30, 2026 - 15:55

The researchers produced a report that was central in a Trump administration eff...

Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas

Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 29, 2026 - 15:26

For John Moscato, a land developer in Las Cruces, N.M., installing gas lines at ...

Pillbugs Are Getting Top Dollar Online. Poachers Have Noticed.

Pillbugs Are Getting Top Dollar Online. Poachers Have N...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 28, 2026 - 15:54

A robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods could pose a serious threa...

A Shift for NOAA’s Surveys: From Science to Mining

A Shift for NOAA’s Surveys: From Science to Mining

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 27, 2026 - 18:55

A $20 million agency project will aid companies prospecting the sea for rare-ear...

Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make Energy Costlier

Michigan Sues Oil Giants, Saying They Collude to Make E...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 27, 2026 - 18:55

The lawsuit accuses the companies of raising prices by working against solar and...

U.S Has Officially Withdrawn From the Paris Climate Accord

U.S Has Officially Withdrawn From the Paris Climate Accord

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 27, 2026 - 18:55

The United States is the only country to pull out of the global agreement among ...

Is Climate Change Weakening the Polar Vortex?

Is Climate Change Weakening the Polar Vortex?

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 24, 2026 - 15:53

Rising Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice could be causing cold air to flow...

Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.

Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 23, 2026 - 15:25

Managers of electric grids say freezing temperatures and ice and snow could lead...

Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean Energy Loans

Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean ...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 22, 2026 - 17:54

Many of the cancellations had been known for months, but the announcement unders...

What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.

What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 21, 2026 - 15:55

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of l...

All Sides Agreed on Shutting a Coal Plant. Then Trump Stepped In.

All Sides Agreed on Shutting a Coal Plant. Then Trump S...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 20, 2026 - 16:57

The administration has thrown into chaos a deal that Washington State worked out...

Democrats Seek Investigation of $3.5 Million Deal by Interior Official’s Husband

Democrats Seek Investigation of $3.5 Million Deal by In...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 20, 2026 - 16:57

Records show that Karen Budd-Falen, a top Interior Department official, didn’t d...

World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law

World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 17, 2026 - 18:24

Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to p...

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 17, 2026 - 18:24

Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate...

Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shielded From Lawsuits

Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shi...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:53

The case could affect thousands of claims that the widely used weedkiller causes...

Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy.

Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:24

Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retiremen...

Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Project Can Continue, Judge Rules

Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Project Can Continue, Ju...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:24

Construction can continue on an $11.2 billion project off the coast of Virginia,...

Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules

Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 15, 2026 - 16:53

A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irrep...

How One Company, Neptune Flood, Is Pushing a Private Takeover of Flood Insurance

How One Company, Neptune Flood, Is Pushing a Private Ta...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 15, 2026 - 16:53

For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, ...

Extreme Weather Events Hit Around the World in 2025

Extreme Weather Events Hit Around the World in 2025

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 14, 2026 - 16:53

Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measur...

U.S. Refiners to Profit as Trump Asserts Control Over Venezuelan Oil

U.S. Refiners to Profit as Trump Asserts Control Over V...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 14, 2026 - 16:53

The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more,...

U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded

U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:24

The increase in planet-warming emissions came after two years of decline as dema...

E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines

E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:24

The agency wants to curtail a section of the Clean Water Act that Democratic gov...

Trump Cuts to Energy Projects in Blue States Were Unlawful, Judge Rules

Trump Cuts to Energy Projects in Blue States Were Unlaw...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 12, 2026 - 18:52

The Energy Department canceled $7.5 billion in Biden-era energy spending, largel...

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet

Under Trump, U.S. Adds Fuel to a Heating Planet

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 12, 2026 - 15:23

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight aga...

Supreme Court Grapples With Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits Against Oil Companies

Supreme Court Grapples With Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits ...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 12, 2026 - 15:23

The justices heard arguments over whether oil companies sued by Louisiana could ...

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Louisiana’s Eroding Coast

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Louisiana’s Eroding Coast

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 11, 2026 - 12:54

Local governments are suing oil companies over environmental damage. The compani...

Wary of Investing in Venezuela, Big Oil Heads to the White House

Wary of Investing in Venezuela, Big Oil Heads to the Wh...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 9, 2026 - 14:24

The amounts of money, time and political uncertainty trouble executives at large...

U.S. Boards Another Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil

U.S. Boards Another Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 9, 2026 - 14:24

The tanker, the Olina, is the fifth to be boarded or seized by U.S. forces in re...

The War Over the Weedkiller Roundup Might Be Headed to the Supreme Court

The War Over the Weedkiller Roundup Might Be Headed to ...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 9, 2026 - 14:24

Bayer has asked the justices to decide whether federal law shields the company f...

Climate Change Has Turned Greenland Into a Target for Trump

Climate Change Has Turned Greenland Into a Target for T...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 8, 2026 - 16:54

A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a g...

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Conven...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 8, 2026 - 16:54

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin th...

Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty

Trump Pulls Out of Global Climate Treaty

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 7, 2026 - 20:23

The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin th...

Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Industry’s Knowledge of Venezuela Operation

Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Industry’s Knowledge o...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 7, 2026 - 15:24

Democrats demanded information from seven top U.S. oil companies about any meeti...

Trump’s Goals for Reviving Venezuela’s Oil Industry Will Not Come Easily or Cheaply

Trump’s Goals for Reviving Venezuela’s Oil Industry Wil...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 5, 2026 - 16:00

It will take years and billions in investment to revitalize Venezuela’s oil indu...

How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign

How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 3, 2026 - 19:22

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the U...

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration’s Order to Stop Work

Offshore Wind Projects Challenge Trump Administration’s...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

The developers of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Empire Wind off New York ...

The Race to Save the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly

The Race to Save the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot B...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 26, 2025 - 13:26

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with th...

A Copper Smelter in Miami, Arizona, Faced Tighter Rules. Then Trump Intervened.

A Copper Smelter in Miami, Arizona, Faced Tighter Rules...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 26, 2025 - 13:26

The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E....

Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry

Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 24, 2025 - 15:54

The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and ...

U.S. Takes a Step Toward Approving Seabed Mining in International Waters

U.S. Takes a Step Toward Approving Seabed Mining in Int...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 23, 2025 - 16:20

The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial a...

How Blocking Illegal ‘Ghost’ Roads Could Protect Tropical Forests

How Blocking Illegal ‘Ghost’ Roads Could Protect Tropic...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 23, 2025 - 13:15

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, ...

How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy

How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate...

NYT > Energy & Environment, Dec 23, 2025 - 13:15

The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to int...