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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2017 - House and Senate committees are busily debating energy policy options that include boosting support for coal, carbon capture and storage, using more wind and solar power, addressing climate change, and the federal energy research programs threatened by steep budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - Governors of Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania last week voted in favor of a resolution to issue draft regulations permanently banning hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas in the Delaware River Basin.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to “directly engage” with the Brazilian government to end Brazil’s recently reinstated 20 percent tariff on ethanol imports in excess of 600 million liters annually.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - American wind energy industry leaders have donated $1 million to hurricane repair and rebuilding as keystone partners of Habitat for Humanity’s Habitat Hammers Back initiative.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - The Energy Department (DOE) says it has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target – 6 cents per kilowatt-hour – set by its SunShot Initiative, a national effort to drive down the cost of solar electricity.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - Florida gasoline markets are still struggling to recover from the increased demand - sparked by early evacuation orders - and disruption of the supply chains needed to deliver gasoline.

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2017 - Wanted: More retailers selling E15.