The House passed the SPEED Act, which aims to cut the timelines and litigation around NEPA reviews, but Democrats urged their Senate colleagues to improve the bill in a chamber where their votes are needed for passage.

Citing an energy “emergency” in the Northwest this winter, DOE ordered TransAlta to continue operating Washington’s last coal-fired generating plant for three months beyond its scheduled retirement at the end of this year.

House Republicans amended the SPEED Act on its way to a floor vote, in order to allow the Trump administration to keep repealing Biden-era permits for offshore wind, which led renewable energy groups to drop support for the bill.

Data center developers’ imperative of speed to market not only stresses the power grid but also is felt on the ground as the giant facilities — often paired with onsite generation — spring up in neighborhoods overburdened by pollution.

In New England, increasing winter reliability concerns are driving questions about how long the region’s aging fleet of oil-fired power plants can, or should, remain on the system.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has issued the third order keeping the Eddystone plant in Pennsylvania running after it had been ready to retire in May 2025.

The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a package of permitting bills, headlined by the SPEED Act that seeks to speed up permit processing and limit litigation.

Pennsylvania has withdrawn from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as part of an overdue budget compromise signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Both parties have members working on permitting legislation, but the shutdown and the Trump administration's actions against clean energy projects make actual legislation a tough lift for now.

Trump officials and other Republicans celebrated the major changes the administration has brought to energy and environmental policy at AFPI's Global Energy Summit.