President Trump announced plans to loosen methane regulations from the oil and gas sector during a Lubbock, Texas rally Tuesday night. The announcement came during the president’s second campaign stop of the day in Texas, during which he aimed to assist the Senate campaign of Republican Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, in the oil-heavy…

A group of Democratic senators is expressing distrust that the Trump administration will treat renewable energy fairly under a bipartisan permitting reform bill — and they are calling on the administration to restore climate funding it terminated for blue states. Their letter to Democrats and Republicans who negotiated the bill represents a fracture in the…