As U.S. cities struggle to rein in garbage while propping up pricey recycling efforts, more companies are profiting from America’s growing waste problem and leaving local communities to face the environmental consequences.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday that President Joe Biden opposes raising the federal gasoline tax because it would violate his pledge to not raise taxes on middle-class Americans.

A second day of marathon hearings on Texas’s unprecedented energy crisis raised concerns about the liquidity of the state’s power market, and who will ultimately pay for the disaster as some companies face bankruptcy.

Joe Biden’s ambition to make the U.S. less dependent on other nations for rare earths and minerals critical to the clean energy transition will take years to accomplish.

A United Nations report released Friday totals up new national climate commitments and concludes that the effort “falls far short” of what’s necessary to slow global warming.

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s rule that allegedly weakens Washington state’s water standards will be put on hold pending the Biden administration’s review, a federal court in the state said.

The Washington state attorney general on Friday said the Energy Department should cancel a Trump-era notice that could lead to radioactive pollution exposures from the former Hanford nuclear site.

Bloom Energy Corp. must turn over files to an investor weighing whether to sue over claims that the company underestimated its fuel cell servicing costs by $2.2 billion and downplayed greenhouse gas emissions that put it at risk of losing critical federal subsidies, a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled.

The Biden administration is reverting to an Obama-era method of calculating the cost of greenhouse gases—a move that industry is almost certain to challenge.

The House passed an eight-bill public lands package that would designates 1.5 million acres of Western federal land as wilderness and prohibits new mining near the Grand Canyon.