Matthew Daly

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  • Chris WrightEconomy

    Latest federal workers to get furloughed: The people watching the nuclear stockpile

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • President Donald Trump listens as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Washington.Workplace Culture

    Trump is greenlighting an Alaska megamine—and taking a government stake in the company digging it up

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpEnvironment

    Trump breaks wind funding again, canceling $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore projects

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • A blurred trump walks in front of a wind turbine.Energy

    Trump declares war on clean energy. The numbers show it’s the only thing keeping America’s lights affordable

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is flanked by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, left, and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as he speaks to reporters just after passage of the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump’s signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 1, 2025. The bill now moves back to the House for final consideration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Politics

    Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ may end clean energy credits. Critics warn it could send utility bills ‘through the roof’

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • Byesville, Ohio, The Guernsey Power Station, a gas-fired power station in eastern OhioEnvironment

    Trump’s EPA moves to repeal rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    House GOP want to use tax-cut package to authorize sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah

    By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 07: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Politics

    Trump signed an executive order targeting another foe: Showerheads that guzzle water

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the pressPolitics

    Trump ends water conservation standards that limited showerhead flow and made it harder for him to wash his ‘beautiful hair’

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • President Donald Trump shakes hands with coal miner Jeff Crowe during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Politics

    Trump signs executive orders to boost coal mining and energy production: ‘We’re ending Joe Biden’s war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all’

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, DCPolitics

    Federal judge blocks Trump administration from killing $14bn in climate grants awarded under Biden because its ‘vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient’

    By Michael Phillis, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    EPA staffers must now get DOGE approval before spending anything on items greater than $50,000

    By The Associated Press and Matthew Daly
  • Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)Politics

    Trump’s EPA chief will try to claw back $20 billion in clean-energy grants awarded by Biden

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • FILE- A large soft drink with a plastic straw from a McDonald’s restaurant is shown in Surfside, Fla., May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)Politics

    Trump signs order banning federal use of paper straws because they ‘don’t work’—’We’re going back to plastic’

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press
  • Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Energy, testifies during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing for his pending confirmation, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)Politics

    Trump energy secretary pick—fossil fuel CEO Chris Wright—confirmed by Senate as he vows to ‘unleash’ U.S. power resources

    By Matthew Daly and The Associated Press