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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, March 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - The Energy Department hosted an event billed as “Unleashing American Energy” last week, during which President Trump and administration officials presented their goals for the country’s energy future.
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry launched the Trump administration’s “Energy Week” Tuesday by promising to make zero-emissions nuclear energy “cool again.”
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2017 - Energy Secretary Rick Perry may not have sought out the advice of renewable energy groups when he asked his staff to prepare a new study, but he’s getting an earful anyway.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - President Donald Trump explained in his 1987 book The Art of the Deal that “my style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2017 - In rapid-fire votes Tuesday, the Senate Energy Committee voted 16-6 for confirming Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., as Interior Secretary and 16-7 for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to become Energy Secretary.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 – Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry promised senators today that he is capable of running the Energy Department and has changed some key beliefs since famously saying during a past presidential bid that the department should be abolished.
