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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2017 – While President Donald Trump is doubling down on his climate change skepticism with his Cabinet picks, there are other forces at play favoring renewable energy sources like...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - Some 47 states and the District of Columbia took some type of solar policy action during 2016, according to the N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center’s (NCCETC) annual review and the fourth-quarter update edition of “The 50 States of Solar.”

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2017 - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions produced in the generation of electricity at power plants in the U.S. declined by 73 percent from 2006 to 2015, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - Colorado’s Republican attorney general sent a letter last week to the Democrats who control the Boulder County Board of Commissioners, calling their moratorium on new oil and gas development in the county “illegal.”

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2017 - National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) CEO Jim Matheson welcomes the Trump administration’s commitment to “eliminating” the Clean Power Plan that was designed to limit power plant carbon emissions for the first time. But the former seven-term Utah congressman also tells Agri-Pulse that he expects NRECA member co-ops to continue investing heavily in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - In rapid-fire votes Tuesday, the Senate Energy Committee voted 16-6 for confirming Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., as Interior Secretary and 16-7 for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to become Energy Secretary.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The effects of distributed solar on retail electricity prices are, and will continue to be, quite small compared to other issues, according to a study by Galen Barbose, a scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - Revenues from energy production on federal and American Indian lands dipped to the lowest level since at least fiscal year 2004, according to the Interior Department’s Office of Natural Resource Revenue.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2017 - Top political experts who were assembled on stage at the National Biodiesel Board’s annual meeting last week offered a mixed bag of perspectives on what to expect in the new Trump administration and the 115th Congress.