The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $5.25 billion investment in 31 grid-improvement projects across 26 states, aimed at expanding transmission capacity, reducing outages and strengthening resilience. Texas’ share—and the specific impact on CenterPoint Energy customers—was expected to be detailed at a joint announcement in Houston.

The U.S. Department of Energy is harnessing the artificial intelligence boom in its bid to convert another Cold War-era uranium enrichment site.

The Trump administration has forged a new agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program.

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory.

The U.S. Department of Energy has issued an emergency order authorizing ERCOT to deploy backup generation resources at data centers and other major facilities to reduce the load on Texas’ energy grid.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects across several states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election.

The U.S. stock market swung through another unsettled day of trading, ahead of a couple of crucial tests for Wall Street.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War.

Federal officials have identified more than 50 square miles of government-owned property across the U.S. as having great potential for renewable energy projects.

A Louisiana judge says the Biden administration can't delay consideration of projects aimed at exporting liquefied natural gas while a legal challenge plays out in federal court.

A new study calculates that U.S. oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks.

Singapore-based Maxeon Solar Technologies plans to build a major solar panel manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, pending approval of a loan application with the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Texas Division of Emergency Management will decide how to use the money.

Kentucky officials say they won't begin paying $21 million in economic incentives for a proposed electric vehicle battery facility until the company further explains why federal officials abruptly rejected a $200 million loan.

The Biden administration is announcing an investment of $251 million in carbon capture and storage projects in seven states.

The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to use nearly $15 million in federal grants to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges and universities around the country.

As fossil fuel emissions continue warming Earth’s atmosphere, the Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

The Electric Reliability Council of of Texas (ERCOT) requested an emergency order from the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday to bypass certain emission standards for power plants due to the impact of extreme cold weather in Texas.

U.S. officials say they have almost completed a lengthy project to dig up and remove radioactive and hazardous waste buried for decades in unlined pits at an eastern Idaho nuclear facility that sits atop a giant aquifer.

Federal scientists are launching an effort to better understand the hydrology in the U.S. West.

Officials say an underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground.

AIKEN, S.C. The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to send a few gallons of radioactive wastewater from a South Carolina nuclear reservation to Texas, where it will be treated and disposed. The Aiken Standard reports the upcoming move will expedite the cleanup of nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site operated by the Department of Energy. The transfer follows an Energy Department decision to re-interpret the definition of high-level radioactive waste." The waste is currently stored in an underground tank at the Savannah River site. According to the Aiken Standard, government documents state the retrieval, movement, treatment and disposal of the waste poses minimal risks to human and environmental health.