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Hardline Conservative Wins Republican Primary for Texas Oil and Gas Regulator

Bo French prevailed over incumbent Jim Wright after a primary campaign focused more on Islamophobia and deportations than oil and gas regulation.

By Martha Pskowski

 Bo French speaks as the Tarrant County Republican Party Chair during a rally in Mansfield on April 15, 2025. Credit: Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images
Chairman Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) speaks during a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on April 22 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’

By Liza Gross
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability

By Dana Drugmand
An aerial view of a partially collapsed home in St. Johnsbury, Vt., on July 30, 2024, after flash floods hit the area. Vermont, along with New York, passed climate superfund laws last year, and similar legislation is pending in a handful of other states. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Trump and Republicans Join Big Oil’s All-Out Push to Shut Down Climate Liability Efforts

By Dana Drugmand
The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright leaves the East Room after attending an event with President Donald Trump to urge the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” at the White House on June 26 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Latest GOP Provisions in Budget Bill Seek to Crush Renewable Energy

By Bob Berwyn
An aerial view of traffic on a smoggy day in Los Angeles in January 1985. Credit: Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Republicans Flout Law and Precedent to Kill California’s Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross
From left: Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Chip Roy (R-Texas), Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), Andy Harris (R-Md.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Clay Higgins (R-La.) talk to the press about ongoing negotiations over the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" at the Capitol Building on May 21. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. What Happened to All the Supposed Holdouts?

By Dan Gearino
Heavy vehicles stop moving as a timed detonation brings down a wide coal face at the Buckskin Coal Mine, in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images

House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands

By Jake Bolster
A view of a wind farm in Nolan, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Some Republicans Defend Clean Energy Tax Credits from Trump Administration Cuts

By Dylan Baddour, Marianne Lavelle

As the Election Draws Near, Democrats Face a Climate Messaging Conundrum

By Kiley Price
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy participates in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on December 6. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Vivek Ramaswamy Called ‘the Climate Change Agenda’ a Hoax in Alabama’s First-Ever Presidential Debate. What Did University of Alabama Students Think?

By Lee Hedgepeth
Carol Snyder of Northwood, Ohio holds up a jar with water collected from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two-day ban due to algae-related toxins.

Funding Poised to Dry Up for Water Projects in Ohio and Other States if Proposed Budget Cuts Become Law

Kathiann M. Kowalski
Ranchers round up black angus cattle on the Lone Star Wind Farm on June 9, 2007, near Abilene, Texas. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Clean Energy Is Thriving in Texas. So Why Are State Republicans Trying to Stifle It?

By Kristoffer Tigue
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) speaks in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

By Emma Ricketts, Grant Schwab
Ranking member Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., right, greets a fellow representative, on Dec. 13, 2022. McHenry is expected to head the Committee on Financial Services in the next Congress. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Republicans Are Primed to Take on ‘Woke Capitalism’ in 2023, with Climate Disclosure Rules for Corporations in Their Sights

By Marianne Lavelle
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers brief remarks during the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 12, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Biden Is Losing His Base on Climate Change, a New Pew Poll Finds. Six in 10 Democrats Don’t Feel He’s Doing Enough

By Marianne Lavelle
Workers for an oilfield service company work at a drilling site in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 20, 2016 in the oil town of Andrews, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A New GOP Climate Plan Is Long on Fossil Fuels, Short on Specifics

By Dan Gearino
Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, speaks during the press conference introducing the Republican Climate Caucus outside of the Capitol on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Q&A: A Republican Congressman Hopes to Spread a New GOP Engagement on Climate from Washington, D.C. to Glasgow

By Judy Fahys

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