Xavier Becerra will have to confront rising energy costs. As a candidate he proposed a promising free-electricity program.

I’ve written a bunch about the issues with the permit certainty provisions of the permitting reform bill. Apparently that provision was a demand of Democratic negotiators, seeking to protect renewable ...

NEPA has been dramatically weakened in the past three years. Remarkably, permit reformers still see weakening further as a ...

The permit reform bill needlessly takes an ax to section 401 of the Clean Water Act, a key protection of streams and rivers.

At the end of the last week, these comments from John Podesta, a major Democratic Party policy operative, got some attention.  He called the permitting reform bill a “loaded howitzer” in the hands of ...

The Russian government has gone from joking about fur coats to catching up with global trends but the Arctic is one arena ...

UPDATE: At the time I published this article, Xavier Becerra had received the max contribution from Chevron of $39,200. Since publishing, Becerra has received much more support in the form of ...

If the Democrats take control of the Senate or House of Representatives, they still won't be able to overturn Trump's ...

Despite Musk, Trump, and many $$$, Democrats have gained ground in the fight for congressional control since October 1.

The government's evasions in the golf course case were shot down when Trump said the quiet part out loud. The judge was not ...

Methane is an invisible gas that haunts the air we breathe, and EPA’s latest attempt to dismantle crucial pollution ...