Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency to boost drilling and speed up pipeline construction should withstand court challenges but will not allow oil and gas producers to skirt all environmental laws,

Economists and analysts aren’t convinced that an expansion of oil and gas production will lower consumer prices.

President Trump signed a "national energy emergency" that gives his administration new powers to boost fossil fuel development around the country.

The misuse of power under Donald Trump is to be taken for granted. Monday ’s list of executive actions on behalf of the fossil-fuel industry was entirely expected—this time around, there is no hesitation about withdrawing from the Paris climate accord (a decision that took four months in his first term),

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act