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A gas-lit flame burns on a natural gas stove, Jan. 11, 2006, in Stuttgart, Germany. New York state plans to ban natural gas stoves and furnaces in most new buildings, a policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions without making people replace their beloved cooking equipment. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, File)

Biden energy officials to snub House GOP hearing on gas stove regulations

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., asks questions during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for the 2024 fiscal year at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) ** FILE **

Manchin tanks Biden energy nominee over proposed gas stove rules

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Natural gas burning on kitchen gas stove in the dark. File photo credit: Bilanol via Shutterstock

GOP bill to block Biden’s anti-gas stove regulations advanced by House panel

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during a hearing to examine her nomination to be Secretary of Energy, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)

Energy secretary defends Biden admin’s gas-stove regulations, vows ‘nobody will take your gas stove’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Washing machines are displayed with other appliances at Sam's Appliances TV & Furniture, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Norwood, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Biden seeks to turn entirety of homes green; manufacturers of appliances warn of lower performance

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

This May 21, 2018, photo shows a row of dishwashers for sale at Lowe's Home Improvement store in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) **FILE**

Biden Energy Dept. releases proposed rule to slash water use and energy consumption in dishwashers

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sam Brinton attends the New York screening of "Boy Erased" at the Whitby Hotel on Oct. 22, 2018, in New York City. (Photo credit: Ron Adar via Shutterstock. File)

Former Biden official Sam Brinton avoids jail time in luggage theft

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

A nurse processes COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at a testing site in Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Lawmakers still ponder COVID-19 origins despite classified briefing on lab-leak theory

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP) ** FILE **

Majority of Americans believe COVID-19 came from Chinese lab: Poll

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Syringes with vaccines are prepared at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. COVID-19's origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

COVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins

By David Klepper - Associated Press

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Biden pressed to declassify COVID intel suspecting China lab as source

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Home cooks, gas stove manufacturers feeling burned by government

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announces a major scientific breakthrough in fusion research that was made at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, during a news conference at the Department of Energy in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden energy secretary met with anti-gas stove group to discuss infrastructure law, official says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gets into the passenger seat after test driving a Ford F-150 Lighting all-electric vehicle during a visit to the Washington Auto Show in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Sec. Granholm’s four-day EV trip this summer through the southeast ran into charging woes for her caravan of three EVs, according to NPR, which was along for the ride. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Battery recycling firm wins $2B loan from Energy Department

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Sen. Joe Manchin talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, 2023. Senior Democratic lawmakers have turned sharply more critical of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials after the FBI discovered additional items with classified markings at Biden’s home. Manchin is urging the president to tell the public, “‘Look, I was irresponsible.”‘ (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) **FILE**

Manchin scolds Biden energy official as administration bends climate law: ‘Quit fighting us’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

Manchin: Feds ‘not taking my gas stove,’ files bill to protect appliance

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 21, 2017, photo, workers make sure that each section of the Enbridge replacement Line 3 that is joined passes muster in Superior, Wisc. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP) **FILE**

Axing Keystone XL pipeline cost thousands of jobs, billions of dollars, Energy Department says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

GOP lawmakers say Sam Brinton episode raises questions about hiring, vetting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. President Joe Biden on Saturday was criticized by Manchin for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” the day after vowing to shuttered coal fired electric plants and lean heavier on wind and solar energy in the future. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Manchin: DOE official Sam Brinton in ‘big trouble’ but shouldn’t be fired yet for snatching $2K bag

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sam Brinton attends the New York screening of "Boy Erased" at the Whitby Hotel on Oct. 22, 2018, in New York City. (Photo credit: Ron Adar via Shutterstock. File)

Biden’s nonbinary head of nuclear waste admits to snatching luggage worth over $2,000 from airport

By Susan Ferrechio and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times