New EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt gave a brief speech introducing himself to the staff of an agency he sued multiple times as Oklahoma attorney general.

Scott Pruitt was sworn in as EPA Administrator by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after the Senate voted 52-46 to confirm him.

Rep. Greg Walden told the NARUC winter meeting that the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hew close to traditional party positions.

The House Subcommittee on Energy met for the latest in its hearings on cybersecurity in the electric industry.

Democrats boycotted the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee meeting, preventing a confirmation vote on Scott Pruitt for EPA administrator.

ISO-NE is seeking stakeholder comments on statutes and regulations that could require new transmission under the public policy conditions of FERC Order 1000.

SPP's Mike Ross told the Strategic Planning Committee that the industry can expect a future with less federal intervention under President Trump.

FERC denied a request to broaden a waiver providing relief to real-time emergency generation resources in ISO-NE.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee he did not agree with Trump's claim that climate change is a hoax.

EPA said yesterday that fracking has harmed drinking water resources under some circumstances but that data gaps have made it impossible to quantify the scope of the problem.