Sen. Vitter said the plan amounted to the Obama administration “picking energy industry winners and losers.”

Several of President Obama’s political appointees are using secret government email accounts, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Enbridge is quietly building a network of pipelines from Canada to the United States while attention is focused on TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL project, InsideClimate News reports.

When Bill Cooper and his family trucked their lives from Oneida, Tenn. to Washington, D.C., one image came to mind – the Clampetts.

Billionaire and climate activist Tom Steyer said the arguments for building the Canada-to-Texas pipeline have “collapsed.”

ON TAP TUESDAY: The Interior Department will offer details on the nation’s first-ever offshore wind lease sale on Tuesday.

Interior has selected the Atlantic Ocean for the site, though the specific area has not yet been named.

The offshore wind element would build on the Obama administration’s efforts to fast-track permitting and site selection for renewable energy projects for onshore public lands.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told reporters in a Monday call that “the demand is there” for offshore wind. She framed the upcoming auction as a bellwether for industry interest.

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Maryland warehouse is plagued by "deplorable conditions,” the inspector general found.

President Obama approved tighter sanctions Monday on Iran's currency and economy to compel the government's leaders to abandon their efforts to be able to build a nuclear weapon.

In an executive order, the president sought to further isolate Iran by attacking the use of its money internationally and by imposing financial penalties for engaging with portions of its economy or government.

The president's new order levies sanctions on foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran's currency, the rial, outside of Iran, including those that seek to buy or sell the rial and institutions that keep large rial accounts outside Iran. Banks, money exchangers and other institutions will be prohibited from maintaing "significant" amounts of the money and from conducting derivative or swaps deals based on the rial's value.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) proposed “four grand principles” to guide the United States toward clean energy independence.

“We will likely have a cheap sustainable supply of energy if we let the free market work,” Alexander said in a floor speech Monday. “Cheaper and more reliable energy is in our grasp.”