Agricultural methane. Ruminant enteric methane. What we’re talking about are cow farts — as well as cow burps. A hell of a lot. Silent, but deadly: a good chunk of the Earth’s greenhouse gases. A U.S. representative from Washington state wants to attack them. Bill Gates thinks they’re a big deal.

When congressional Democrats first introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act in January 2020, it was already a mammoth 622 pages long. But the updated version of the bill before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change now weighs in...

FERC on Thursday reversed its ruling giving state regulators the power to prevent demand response from participating in distributed energy resource aggregations (RM18-9-002) and signaled it may eliminate the opt-out requirements of Orders 719 and 719-A (RM21-14). The first order responded to issues raised on a request to rehear Order...

Crushed by COVID and facing increasing efficiency standards and competition from electric vehicles, worldwide gasoline demand has likely peaked, the International Energy Agency reported Wednesday. "World oil markets are rebalancing after the COVID-19 crisis spurred an unprecedented collapse in demand in 2020, but they may never return to ‘normal,’" IEA...

The Biden administration’s goal to decarbonize the electricity sector by 2035 requires policy coordination and careful planning to align the retirement of around 250 GW of coal-fired power plants with new generation, much of it inevitably natural gas infrastructure. "Certain locations, especially those that are going to see rapid coal...

Unlike General Motors and other U.S. carmakers, Toyota is not going all in on electric vehicles. "Maximum GHG reductions can be achieved with consumers having more access to technology, not less," said Robert Wimmer, the company’s director of energy and environmental research, speaking before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources...

The ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group’s first meeting of the year March 12 featured a discussion on the impact of the Biden administration’s energy policies on New England consumers. The CLG meets quarterly and serves as a public forum between the RTO and New England consumer organizations and advocates to exchange...

The Senate confirmed Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) as secretary of the Interior Monday night, making her the first Native American to become a cabinet member. Haaland was confirmed on a near-party line vote of 51-40. Among Republicans, only Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Dan...

The global energy transition must move more swiftly and provide generous employment opportunities so that workers in vulnerable communities aren’t left reeling from the accompanying economic disruption, a panel of experts said Tuesday. The Center for Strategic and International Studies and Climate Investment Funds gathered panelists for a webinar entitled...

The U.S. Department of Energy is encouraging long-duration energy storage (LDES) owners, those who purchase their services and state governments to rethink how those assets are valued. LDES, defined as any resource that continuously operates for more than six hours, is all about mitigating risk, Max Tuttman, technology-to-market adviser at...