A top Department of Energy official in charge of overseeing the agency's efficiency standards was in the hot seat Tuesday as House Republicans put gas stoves back on the front burner.
Senate Energy Committee Chairman Joe Manchin III is putting the kibosh on one of President Biden's top Department of Energy nominees over the administration's proposed efficiency standards for new gas stoves.
The Biden administration's proposed regulations discouraging the use of natural gas stoves were on the front burner Tuesday as a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee advanced Republican-led legislation to block new restrictions against the popular household appliance.
The origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain murky more than three years after its outbreak and may never be definitively known, senators told The Washington Times on Thursday after emerging from a closed-door briefing on the subject from Department of Energy officials and the intelligence community.