The embattled chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, announced on Monday that he is resigning from his post at the NRC, noting that now is the “appropriate time” to step down. His resignation is e...

Better dialogue between the White House and the oil and gas industry has lobbyists and congressional Republicans screaming “politics,” arguing that both sides have something to gain from warmer relations in an election year. B...

The FBI has launched a criminal probe designed to identify the government officials who leaked key details of a foiled al-Qaida bomb plot, the latest indication of the Obama administration’s unrelenting push to find and punish t...

TransCanada announced on Friday that it has submitted a new application for a permit for the norther...

The Energy Department on Wednesday announced that it has completed a successful test of technology to extract natural gas from methane hydrates found in Alaska's North Slope, kicking off a new joint research effort with Japan a...

With Alaska poised to become the next frontier in offshore drilling this summer, the state’s two senators, Republican Lisa Murkowski and Democrat Mark Begich, find themselves in agreement.

Although Senate support for a measure that would mandate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has been growing, the majority of National Journal’s Energy & Environment Insiders say the proposal is doomed to fail for...

Air quality in the United States is the cleanest it’s ever been, but about 41 percent of Americans still live in areas with harmful pollution levels, according to the American Lung Association’s "State of the Air 2012" report ...

Despite opposition from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Obama will renominate Republican Kristine Svinicki to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Read More »

While the Obama administration has made some progress to make offshore drilling safer since the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago, Congress and industry have a lot of work left to do, according to a pr...

While Persian Gulf states prepare for a shift to renewable energy, the United States—which buys more oil than any nation in the world—is doing next to nothing to get ready for the decline of fossil fuels.

When the other four Nuclear Regulatory Commission commissioners—two Democrats and two Republicans—ganged up on Chairman Gregory Jaczko last year, accusing him of bullying and intimidating his fellow commissioners and agency ...

Gregrory Jaczko discusses his controversial reign at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the future of nuclear energy.