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Senate Democrats Produce a Far-Reaching Climate Bill, But the Price of Compromise with Joe Manchin is Years More Drilling for Oil and Gas

The legislation includes unprecedented tax incentives for renewable energy and electric vehicles but requires additional oil and gas leasing on millions of acres of federal land for a decade.

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden’s Pick for the EPA’s Top Air Pollution Job Finds Himself Caught in the Crossfire

By Marianne Lavelle

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

By James Bruggers

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

By Nicholas Kusnetz

With Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Snubbing of the Democrats’ Reconciliation Plans, Environmental Advocates Ask, ‘Which Side Are You On?’

By Judy Fahys

Will the Democrats’ Climate Legislation Hinge on Carbon Capture?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Biden Takes Aim at Reducing Emissions of Super-Polluting Methane Gas, With or Without the Republicans

By Marianne Lavelle

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation

By Dan Gearino

GOP Fails to Kill Methane Rule in a Capitol Hill Defeat for Oil and Gas Industry

By Georgina Gustin

Modest Climate Bill Draws Sponsors From Both Sides of the Aisle

By Sabrina Shankman

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV)

Keystone Loses 50 Democratic Votes. Why?

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner

Clean Energy: What to Expect in 2013

By Maria Gallucci

A Climate and Energy Shift in the New Congress?

By Jason Plautz

Submerged oil recovery on the Kalamazoo, June 2011

Is Dilbit Oil? IRS & Congress Say No

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

River closed sign near the Kalamazoo River

Keystone XL: Safety Rules Won't Apply

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

House Republican leadership press conference

Clean Energy on GOP Chopping Block 13x

By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News

Pipeline opponents protested before the White House on Nov. 6, 2011.

Federal Keystone XL Law Slowing Neb. Reroute

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Keystone XL: Cudgel or Black Eye for GOP?

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

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