Energy

The Super Bowl featured plenty of glitz — which all takes lots of power

7:17am February 12, 2024

For the first time in Super Bowl history, all the needed power came from a renewable source. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas gets its power from a Nevada solar farm.

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Energy is a top issue for Native Americans in Nevada deciding how they'll vote

6:57pm February 09, 2024

by Ximena Bustillo

In 2020, President Biden won Nevada by just under 3%. Organizers in part credit Native Americans for helping to secure that win. But a big challenge now is tying those policies to people.

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A boat sails down the Calcasieu Ship Channel past Cameron LNG, one of three liquified natural gas export plants in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

U.S. pauses build-out of natural gas export terminals to weigh climate impacts

5:30am January 27, 2024

by Halle Parker

The Biden administration announced Friday it's temporarily freezing any new natural gas export facilities while the Department of Energy reviews the implications on climate change.

National

After Biden administration hits pause, permits for LNG operations are affected

8:18am January 26, 2024

The delay will impact a major terminal expansion in Louisiana, while its impact on climate change is probed. Activists have called for a stop to new LNG export permits due to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Politics & Government

Federal approval is delayed for some pending liquified natural gas export projects

8:12am January 26, 2024

NPR's A Martinez talks to Ali Zaidi, the White House national climate adviser, about the Biden administration hitting pause on a proposed natural gas export terminal along Louisiana's Gulf coast.

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Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:16am January 26, 2024

U.N court to issue a provisional order in genocide case. Senate border talks press on despite pressure from Trump. Biden administration announces pause in approvals of natural gas export facilities.

Oil production companies in the U.S. keep consolidating

5:28pm January 18, 2024

Oil production in the U.S. keeps growing, setting new records. Meanwhile oil companies are snapping each other up in a wave of mergers that's resulting in fewer, bigger companies — and possibly even more oil.

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A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D. Oil and natural gas companies would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a new rule proposed by the Biden administration.

EPA proposes a fee aimed at reducing climate-warming methane emissions

5:09pm January 12, 2024

by The Associated Press

The new fee is intended to encourage the oil and gas industry to lower emissions of methane and thereby avoid paying.

The James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Adamsville, Alabama is a coal-fired facility. In 2023 U.S. greenhouse gas emissions declined 1.9% because less of the country's electricity came from plants like this one.

U.S. cut climate pollution in 2023, but not fast enough to limit global warming

5:00am January 10, 2024

by Jeff Brady

Climate-warming greenhouse gasses in the U.S. declined 1.9% last year, but that's only a third of what's needed to meet Paris climate change goals.

Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan ecology and natural resources minister, attends a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit on Dec. 11, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Babayev has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company in a major oil-producing nation.

World News

Azerbaijan names a former oil executive to lead 2024 climate talks

3:29pm January 05, 2024

by The Associated Press

Mukhtar Babayev, has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company.