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The legislation, which would weaken federal environmental reviews for certain semiconductor manufacturing projects, has divided Democrats. More than two years ago, President Biden signed a law that aimed to ramp [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff If I could make just one change to the way in which we are governed, it would be to add to cabinet the post of Minister [...]

After freezing energy bills for households, the British government said it would ''stop businesses collapsing'' by limiting an expected rise in the price of electricity and natural gas. The British [...]

Byline: Jeanne Whalen and Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON - When the Senate passed a rare bipartisan measure last summer to spend $52 billion subsidizing computer chip manufacturing and research in the [...]

'Medicare for all' and the public option were hot topics during primary season, but the politics of passing those ''gets tricky really fast.'' Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential [...]

A proposal released by the acting chairwoman of the commission is an attempt to close the digital divide. The acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday announced a [...]

Byline: Justin George WASHINGTON - Newly cash-infused Metro has gone from an agency on the financial brink to cutting its funding partners a break, proposing to lower the amount of [...]

Byline: MATTHEW McCLEARN, Staff Lead Hydro-Québec, one of Canada's largest and most interconnected power producers, has rejected the federal government's offer of subsidies to fund new links between provincial power [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum, William Booth and Luisa Beck Faced with the prospect of mass layoffs coinciding with a second wave of covid-19 and new lockdowns, European leaders are extending their [...]

Byline: PATRICK BRETHOUR, SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON Lead The federal government plans to spend $3.8-billion to subsidize wages at small businesses over the next three months, but business groups say the [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni THE LIGHTBULB One of the biggest sticking points to emerge in the fight over the coronavirus stimulus package is how to prop up the nation's energy sector, [...]

Byline: Tom Philpott Defense Department officials have preached three goals for the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) over the last several years of cost-cutting reforms: preserve shopper savings, reduce taxpayer support, [...]

In exchange for tens of thousands of tech jobs, cities promised Amazon the moon -- and an airport lounge, and naming rights, and a chance to pocket its own employees' [...]

Byline: Patricia SullivanARLINGTON, Va. - Residents of Virginia's Crystal City, Pentagon City and Potomac Yard - or should we say 'National Landing' - will see the first public deliberations over [...]

New York City leaders have reached an agreement in principle to provide reduced-fare MetroCards to low-income subway and bus riders, according to three people briefed on the discussion. Under the [...]

As President Trump's family business prepares to open a hotel in the Mississippi Delta this fall, its local development partners have asked the State of Mississippi to subsidize the project [...]

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Monday rejected a proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to subsidize struggling coal and nuclear plants, in a major blow to the Trump administration's efforts [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Trump administration official said Wednesday that the administration wanted to stabilize health insurance markets, but refused to say if the government would promote enrollment this fall under [...]

This appeared in Friday's Washington Post. - - - Like any development in a dynamic economy, the continuing transformation of the American energy mix creates winners and losers. The victors [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Jim Justice, the born-again Republican governor of West Virginia, is floating a federal proposal to bail out the struggling Appalachian coal industry at a cost to taxpayers [...]

The City Council of New York spoke to an urgent problem with its recent proposal to subsidize transit fares for low-income workers who now must choose between putting food on [...]

Wind farms, with their rapid geographic spread and technological advances, are reshaping the electric system, defying skepticism that they are steady or reliable enough to displace conventional power plants. ''The [...]

Byline: Story Hinckley First daughter Ivanka Trump is asking Congress to rein in child-care expenses - but at a hefty price. According to a report from Bloomberg News, Ms. Trump [...]

A number of Republican health care policy proposals that seemed out of favor in the Obama era are now being given new life. One of these involves Medicare, the government [...]

The details of how to help close the digital divide are coming into focus. At least that's the message from the Federal Communications Commission, which has put together a final [...]

WASHINGTON -- People who do not have regular access to the Internet can fall behind in school, at work and in other everyday tasks. The Federal Communications Commission is close [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe project known as Syracuse's Inner Harbor looked like a feast for a starving city, the harbinger of the long-awaited turnaround of upstate New York: a $342 million constellation [...]

LONDON -- The British government on Wednesday announced plans to curb the costs of subsidies for renewable forms of energy like solar power, arguing that the industry could survive without [...]

For 30 years, the federal government has helped millions of low-income Americans pay their phone bills, saying that telephone service is critical to summoning medical help, seeking work and, ultimately, [...]