by Emma Richman | Nov 13, 2024 | Energy, Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – World leaders discussed climate change solutions at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Azerbaijan this week, amid the increasing threat of global warming during the hottest year on record. The conference, known as COP29, brought together...
by Ellisya Lindsey | Mar 9, 2022 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — A shift to clean energy could serve as a potential solution to the ongoing affordability crisis, a White House official shared in a conversation carried live by Axios on Wednesday. “The president’s plan to create tax incentives that made it cheaper for...
by Zachary Miller | Feb 3, 2022 | Business, Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — The rollout of new ultra-fast fifth generation (5G) cellular networks was supposed to revolutionize internet access and cement the U.S.’s technological position against a rising China. Now, lawmakers are trying to figure out how it went so wrong. “We...
by Jorja Siemons | Jan 25, 2022 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON – Solar energy plays an integral part in transitioning American energy away from carbon emissions, experts said at a Department of Energy summit on Tuesday. “The only way to get out from under (climate change) is to build out clean energy, as much and as...
by Virginia Langmaid | Feb 18, 2020 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON—American national security is threatened by rapid technological advances that often are not understood by the leaders who have to make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons or other life-threatening actions, two nuclear threat experts said Tuesday. New...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 14, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON –– The United States’ energy infrastructure has increasingly become a primary target for hostile cyber attacks, Assistant Secretary of Energy Karen Evans told lawmakers on Thursday. “The frequency, scale and sophistication of cyber threats have increased,”...
by Anna Laffrey | Mar 13, 2018 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — The intersection of autonomous vehicle technology, ride-sharing and electric propulsion in vehicles will change the way that cities work, transportation experts said Tuesday at a meeting on how the new cars will affect urban sprawl. The...
by Caroline Vakil | Feb 8, 2018 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON – The U.S. system that provides electricity to people is old and wastes energy, but regulations and government funding for older infrastructure are getting in the way of upgrades, energy industry experts told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 18, 2018 | Energy, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Better access to government resources and federal contracts is crucial for small businesses, members of the House Small Business subcommittee said at a hearing on Thursday. Members met to discuss resources available to small businesses through the...
by Darby Hopper | Nov 21, 2016 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — The United States’ transition to clean energy is inevitable and won’t be stopped by any rollback of environmental regulations, Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy said Monday. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the Clean...
by Darby Hopper | Nov 1, 2016 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON—China remains the undisputed leader of growth in renewable energy worldwide, but that growth comes with a risk that Asia may end up with more energy capacity than it can use, according to the new annual report of the International Energy Agency. The...
by Eunice Lee | Oct 3, 2016 | Business, Energy, Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – For rural Americans and folks living in small towns, biobased products offer “tremendous hope” of more jobs and cleaner energy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Monday at a National Press Club luncheon. When it comes to biobased products,...
