Tuesday’s elections delivered a nationwide sweep of results with positive potential for climate and environmental policy. The new Congress will have power to slow or reverse some of the Trump ...

Tuesday's election puts Democrats in position to block some of Trump's anti-environmental efforts while expanding state clean ...

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

The topic of climate change was mostly missing from the midterm campaign trail and yet the election results could go down as the biggest climate election in U.S. history. Both things can be true. Yes, ...

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

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 ...

Despite the intense counterattack from Republicans, Democrats seem even more likely to control the House than they did a month ago. They also have at least a 50/50 chance of Senate control. Democratic ...

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 ...