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Environmental groups Center for Biological Diversity and Wildlife Guardians sued the Biden administration to challenge about 3,500 drilling permits approved for companies seeking to extract oil and gas from federal land.

<i>We’ll be off this Monday for Juneteenth but will be back in your inboxes on Tuesday.</i>

The White House wants to make it abundantly clear that President Joe Biden’s expected upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia is not going to be just about oil.

Gasoline hit $5 per gallon on a national basis for the first time ever on Saturday, according to the American Automobile Association, keeping the pressure on the Biden administration.

With markets tight and prices high, “every lost cargo matters,” said Ben Cahill, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Biden administration hopes to expand the country’s electric vehicle charging network with 500,000 more charging stations.

Not everyone on the Hill is super thrilled about the White House plans.

Investor companies representing $100 million or more of annual renewable energy investment reported 71 percent of their U.S. solar investments on average are “at risk” due to the Commerce inquiry, according to an analysis released today.

Hurricane season officially started last week, and that’s putting Puerto Rico’s grid reliability back at the forefront.

Several Democrats both in and out of the administration laid out their discontent with the office over its involvement in other agencies’ work.