The Latest Breaking News from Energy Department

The U.S. Energy Department declared a power emergency in Texas, citing a shortage of electricity as an arctic winter blast causes power plants to fail.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Energy Department on Friday vacated a decision made in 1954 to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.”

Fighting at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant is raising some alarms about exporting atomic technologies — but not on Capitol Hill.

The Biden administration is making $4.5 billion available through a low-income home energy assistance program to help lower heating costs heading into what is expected to be a brutal winter

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are launching an investigation into what they say could be the “potential misuse” by the Biden administration of the nation’s emergency oil reserves to lower gasoline prices, as well as White House deliberations over a fuel export ban.

The Biden administration will sell another tranche of oil from the national reserve in December to put a damper on gasoline prices.

WASHINGTON — White House officials have asked the U.S. Energy Department to analyze whether a ban on exports of gasoline, diesel and other refined petroleum products would lower fuel prices, an indication the controversial idea is gaining traction in some corners of the Biden administration.

WASHINGTON — California gasoline prices are soaring again — up more than a dollar over the last month — and the latest big congressional idea for relief involves creating an emergency oil supply that Washington would tap when prices soar.

After a decade in limbo, Nevada is pressing U.S. nuclear regulators to finally kill a mothballed proposal to entomb the nation’s most radioactive waste in the desert north of Las Vegas