Republicans intend to challenge a key climate-change program in the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending package with the same maneuver that helped knock out immigration reform.

China plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants in other nations, potentially ending one of the last sources of international funding for the dirtiest fossil fuel.

Republicans intend to challenge a key climate-change program in the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending package with the same maneuver that helped knock out immigration reform.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday accused the Interior Department of hiding behind bureaucratic process to stall oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands and avoid making public a review on the future of the federal leasing program.

Denbury Inc. has signed a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to haul carbon dioxide away from an ammonia plant the Asian giant plans to build along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil sector writ large is trying to recast itself as climate friendly amid unprecedented pressure from shareholders, lawmakers and the public over environmental threats.

ConocoPhillips’s $9.5 billion deal to buy shale assets from Royal Dutch Shell Plc will boost the amount of carbon the company pumps into the atmosphere. Yet the company says the pact will actually allow it to reach one of its climate goals faster.

The Biden administration’s top energy official said the nuclear industry should broaden its business case beyond power markets in order to ensure its place in a carbon-free economy.