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Pipelines and tanks are pictured in a gas terminal Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 in Obergailbach, eastern France. European Union leaders enter a crucial stretch this week to make sure runaway energy prices and short supplies do not further tank their struggling economies and foment unrest. At the same time, they need to keep all 27 members united in their opposition of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Americans brace for colder winter and soaring heating bills amid supply woes, Ukraine fallout

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Ford Motor Co., line workers put together ventilators that the automaker is assembling at the Ford Rawsonville plant in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. U.S. Regulations are likely to fall heaviest on the agriculture and manufacturing sectors, which combined account for 33% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Joe Biden climate goal to require radical shifts in transportation, agriculture, manufacturing

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this June 1, 2017, photo, protesters gather outside the White House in Washington to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Trump formally starts withdrawal from Paris climate pact

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Nov. 29, 2006, file photo, steam rises from the huge boiler units at the coal-fired Jim Bridger Power Plant east of Rock Springs, Wyo. U.S. demand for coal to generate electricity will continue to weaken in coming months despite efforts by the Trump administration to prop up the struggling industry, federal officials said Thursday, May 9, 2019. Renewable energy sources are expected to fill much of the gap left by coal’s decline, according to the Energy Information Administration. (Jeff Gearino/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)

Officials: Coal to keep sliding as renewables, gas fill gap

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. The president is mandating even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected, while granting states more time and broader options to comply. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama blasts ‘lazy’ critics of carbon rules

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Key pieces of President Obama's environmental plan, including proposals to increase ozone standards, limit carbon emissions from power plants and continue mandating more ethanol in U.S. gasoline supplies, will bring with them serious side effects in the coming months and years, critics and some analysts say. (Associated Press)

Obama climate change plan to eliminate jobs, raise electric bills, analysts say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, disputing energy industry estimates, argues that average Americans ultimately will see lower electric bills as a result of regulations under President Obama's climate change agenda. (Associated Press)

EPA coal power cuts raise electric bills as Obama advances climate change agenda

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The Overseas Acadia is anchored in New York Harbor. With U.S. energy production near record highs, pressure is mounting on the Obama administration to lift a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports, but the White House shows no signs of changing course. (Associated Press)

Obama resists U.S. oil exports despite near-record crude production

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Obama gets a look at a wind turbine blade with TPI Composites workers Larry Crady and Dajeane Spencer during a May 2012 tour of the plant in Newton, Iowa. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama administration: Wind power could dominate energy sector by 2050

The Washington Times

Ships bringing oil drilling equipment to Alaska pass through Seattle's Elliott Bay. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican and the presumed next chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has been the leading proponent in Congress for ending the ban on the sale of U.S. oil to foreign buyers. Ms. Murkowski argues that a sea change in the way oil and gas prices are determined in global markets has made the ban — a relic of the 1970s fuel scarcity — something that is increasingly harming the outlook for the nation's booming shale oil industry. (Associated Press)

Oil export ban repeal would lower gas prices, studies show

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Obama’s dirty secret: U.N. climate pledge ignores sudden spike in U.S. carbon emissions

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

A general view of the Eshkol power station in the coastal city of Ashdod, southern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. A top official at a U.S. energy company developing natural gas fields off the coast of Israel urged Congress to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, saying the agency is vital to clinching development deals for American companies in the region. **FILE**

For embattled Israel, a Leviathan Massive gas find could transform economy

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

Signs like this one in Bradshaw, Nebraska, express local resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, which would run through Bradshaw. (associated press)

Crude oil will head north of the border to Canada

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 29, 2012, file photo, a train hauls coal north out of downtown Seattle from the Rockies toward British Columbia. Regulators have received an unprecedented number of public comments on the disputed proposal to export millions of tons of coal to Asia from a facility along the Columbia River in Washington. Officials are preparing to sift through more than 163,000 comments to decide which environmental effects should be reviewed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Obama pleas to China, India to forgo use of coal falls on deaf ears

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Oil refineries are key to turning crude into petroleum products that can be exported. Exports of gasoline, diesel, distillate, propane and other petroleum products soared to a record 4.3 million barrels a day in December, more than twice the 2.1 million barrels a day of petroleum products that the U.S. imported on average last year, according to the Energy Information Administration. (Associated Press)

U.S. energy giants use crude oil loophole to post record petroleum exports

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration Wind Power by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

TAYLOR AND TANTON: Blow off wind-production tax credit

By George Taylor and Tom Tanton

Declining gas prices are reflected at a filling station in Wilmington, N.C., last week. (Associated Press)

Summer gas prices seen edging down

By Chris Kahn - Associated Press

**FILE** Rep. Doc Hastings, Washington Republican (Associated Press)

Government data undercut Obama’s energy claims

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gasoline prices are displayed Feb. 21, 2012, as a man rides his bicycle past them at a station in Oakland, Calif. (Associated Press)

Gasoline over $4 a gallon in 4 states, D.C.

By Chris Kahn - Associated Press

LORIS: Gas costs too much; here’s why

By Nicolas Loris