House Republicans have approved two bills rolling back Energy Department efficiency standards for home refrigerators and dishwashers.

The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon as part of a Biden administration plan to promote energy conservation and clean energy.

Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in the Middle East has the potential to disrupt global oil supplies and raise prices.

The White House is poised to announce the winners of a $7 billion federal competition to produce and deliver hydrogen fuel, a key component of its clean energy program.

The Department of Energy announced Friday it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects that promise to remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials said was the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history.

The Biden administration is delaying plans to restock the nation’s emergency oil reserve amid a price hike that has pushed oil above $80 a barrel.

Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.

The Republican-controlled House has approved legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from over-zealous government regulators.

The government has canceled plans to award a $200 million grant to a U.S. battery manufacturer amid criticism from Republican lawmakers over the company’s alleged ties to China.

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that caused the disease leaked from a China lab.

A Nevada company that recycles batteries for electric vehicles has won a $2 billion green energy loan from the Biden administration.

The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile from going to China.

The Biden administration has announced preliminary approval to spend up to $1.1 billion to help keep California’s last operating nuclear power plant running.

A joint venture between General Motors and South Korean battery company LG Energy Solution is set to receive a $2.5 billion loan from the Energy Department to build battery cell factories for electric vehicles in three states.

The Biden administration has announced $3.1 billion in funding to U.S. companies that make and recycle lithium-ion batteries.

The Biden administration is scrapping old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs.

The Biden administration has released hundreds of strategies it's taking or will take to boost equity across the federal government.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has announced that $3 million in federal funding will be directed toward historically Black colleges and universities.

The Biden administration has issued its first clean energy loan guarantee, reviving an Obama-era program that disbursed billions of dollars in guarantees to help launch the country’s first utility-scale wind and solar farms a decade ago but has largely gone dormant in recent years.

The Biden administration is reversing a Trump-era rule on showerheads that was approved after then-President Donald Trump complained he couldn’t get wet enough because of limits on their water flow.

The Biden administration is taking steps to protect the country’s electric system from cyberattacks through a new 100-day initiative combining federal government agencies and private industry.

AdRepublicans and other critics cite Solyndra as an example of wasteful spending under President Barack Obama's stimulus program, and the loan guarantees have largely dried up in recent years. AdThe program will be overseen by Jigar Shah, a longtime clean-energy entrepreneur who helped pioneer solar power in the U.S. While Republicans are likely to focus on avoiding a repeat of Solyndra, Granholm, a former Michigan governor, said Tesla is a better example. Still, the loan program overall has returned more than $500 million to taxpayers, “people paying back their loans with interest,'' Granholm said. “I’m very excited about his leadership and about actually using the DOE loan program again,'' she said.

(Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)WASHINGTON – As part of its clean-energy agenda, the Biden administration is reviving an Energy Department program that disbursed billions of dollars in loan guarantees to companies such as electric car maker Tesla and the failed solar company Solyndra, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says. AdThe program will be overseen by Jigar Shah, a longtime clean-energy entrepreneur who helped pioneer solar power in the U.S. While Republicans are likely to focus on avoiding a repeat of Solyndra, Granholm, a former Michigan governor, said Tesla is a better example. Still, the loan program overall has returned more than $500 million to taxpayers, “people paying back their loans with interest,'' Granholm said. “I’m very excited about his leadership and about actually using the DOE loan program again,'' she said.

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu)FILE - In this July 28, 2016, file photo, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is poised to be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to lead the United States Department of Energy, according to a CNN report. The United States Department of Energy is a cabinet-level department concerned with the United States’ policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material. Michigan Gov. Gretchen WhitmerPresident-elect Biden is poised to nominate former Michigan Gov.