Energy and Environment

He is attacking Obama for blocking oil development off Virginia’s coast, a plan supported by Republicans in the state.

The new ad from Americans for Prosperity knocking Obama's green-energy spending will run in eight battleground states.

Elizabeth Warren won the endorsement of the League of Conservation Voters Monday in her bid to unseat incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.).

The news, while not a surprise, officially aligns the environmental movement's two biggest political campaign operations with Warren’s election bid. The Sierra Club, the green movement's other political powerhouse, endorsed Warren earlier this month.

“LCV Action Fund is proud to endorse Elizabeth Warren for Senate because she understands that the policies needed to bring jobs to Massachusetts and keep America’s competitive edge are the same policies that will reduce our dependence on oil and curb harmful pollution,” LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski said in a statement.

“We are confident that as Senator, Elizabeth Warren will be a strong voice for environmental policies that make corporate polluters pay their fair share and build a clean energy future for America.”

Romney blasts cap-and-trade efforts to mitigate global warming, but a big Romney supporter backs such efforts with large contributions.

Newt Gingrich hopes to revive his struggling presidential campaign by touting his energy platform amid rising gasoline prices.

The former House Speaker is polling far behind GOP rivals Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. Gingrich, asked Tuesday night on Fox News how he can “rise from the ashes,” had this to say:

I think in my case I rise by focusing on an American energy policy, getting back to $2.50-a-gallon gasoline, outlining both the economic and national-security implications, indicating that instead of bowing to a Saudi king we ought to be drilling, and our goal should be to be so independent that we don't care what the Iranians do in the Straits of Hormuz.