Jacqueline Toth

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories U.S. Central Command released a U.S.-captured video showing what it says is an Iranian military patrol boat taking an unexploded mine from a damaged tanker, implicating Iran in the attack, though the president of Kokuka Sangyo Co. Ltd., which owns the tanker, said the damage came from the air rather […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Crude future prices went up by about 3 percent after reports of attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The increase comes after crude costs recently sank to five-month low, and as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ production reached its lowest level in five years, dropping […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Commodities Futures Trading Commissioner Rostin Behnam, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to the agency, today intends to detail a new expert panel at the commission tasked with issuing a report on how climate change could impact finance, a document expected in late 2019 or early 2020. Behnam, a […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories The Environmental Protection Agency may wait to finalize changes to the New Source Review permitting program as a separate action from the agency’s Clean Power Plan replacement regulation that the administration intends to finish this month, according to business, environmental and regulatory sources. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is tentatively scheduled […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories The White House refused to approve written testimony of a State Department official for inclusion in a House Intelligence Committee’s official record because the testimony did not follow the Trump administration’s position on climate change, according to multiple senior administration officials. Critics of Office of the Geographer and Global Issues […]

By Jacqueline Toth Week in Review White House President Donald Trump signed the $19 billion disaster relief spending bill for recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and states impacted by extreme weather, including California and Iowa. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he saw authorizations showing that the Trump administration gave domestic companies permission to share sensitive […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Seventeen automakers signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to resume negotiations with California over changes the administration is considering for federal fuel economy standards, warning that the plans as currently proposed could lead to “an extended period of litigation and instability” for the car manufacturers. A senior auto industry […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa confirmed that the DNC will not hold a debate focused on climate change for the 2020 election, nor will it hold any other issue-specific debates, in order to ensure that voters hear from contenders “on dozens of issues of importance to American voters.” Washington […]

By Jacqueline Toth Top Stories Some members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council are prioritizing the creation of an Eastern Mediterranean gas forum to try to solve conflict and ease tensions in the Middle East, according to three senior administration officials, who say the administration is following a declassified map first created by the […]