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…

The Trump administration is planning to loosen regulations on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, and particularly for low-producing, high-emitting oil and gas wells. President Trump will announce a proposed rule to roll back those regulations at a Tuesday night rally in Texas, an administration official confirmed. The draft rule would be expected…