The Senate could take up energy efficiency legislation once it finishes debating immigration policy even though more comprehensive bills aren’t moving any time soon, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, predicted Wednesday.  More »

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and a top deputy are grilled before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on issues ranging from oil drilling on federal lands to how endangered species listings could affect energy development.  More »

The oil and gas industry and their allies in Congress are renewing a campaign to expand drilling along the U.S. coastline.  More »

Environmentalists and energy producers shared the microphones at a Senate forum on Thursday, aimed at discussing ways to reduce the environmental footprint of natural gas development.  More »

A top Energy Department official on Tuesday hinted that the Obama administration could issue natural gas exports licenses about every two months.  More »

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, who was sworn in Tuesday as the nation’s new energy secretary, said he will put on hold about 20 applications to export liquefied natural gas until he reviews studies on what impact the exports would have on domestic natural gas supplies and prices.  More »

Energy analysts will be reading the tea leaves Tuesday as Obama administration officials field questions about their approach to exporting U.S natural gas during a Senate forum on the issue. Follow live as we tweet from the forum.  More »

The Obama administration on Friday gave Freeport LNG approval to broadly export domestically harvested natural gas, marking only the second time a U.S. company has won such a license. The export license ensures that the Texas-based project will be able to liquefy natural gas produced by BP to Japan, Taiwan and other countries that do not have free-trade agreements with the United States.  More »

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and five fellow Republicans from other coastal states on Monday implored the Obama administration to open new areas for offshore drilling, saying the change would give a jolt to the U.S. economy by spurring jobs and spending.  More »

Sen. Max Baucus’ decision to retire sets in motion a chain of events that could end with Sen. Mary Landrieu taking the helm of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, putting the Louisiana Democrat in the driver’s seat for big debates on offshore drilling and natural gas production.  More »

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday held a hearing on a measure that aims to boost energy efficiency and separate bills that would spur hydropower development.  More »

The Energy Department is poised to start making decisions on exporting more domestic natural gas within months, a top Obama administration official told Congress on Thursday, as leaders debate the contentious issue at the LNG 17 conference in Houston this week.  More »