Even if no new reactors are built, getting rid of the country’s nuclear waste will cost $96.2 billion and require a major expansion of the planned Nevada waste dump beyond limits imposed by Congress, the Energy Department said...

The Energy Department frowned on relaxing federal requirements to boost the use of ethanol in gasoline.Any reduction in the renewable fuel standard would sap investment in biofuel technology and undermine efforts to wean the nation off oil and...

Oil futures fell sharply Wednesday after the Energy Department said the nation’s supplies of fuel and oil were larger than expected last week _ evidence that the soaring price for gasoline has sliced into Americans’ demand for fuel. The...

Oil prices slid Wednesday after the Energy Department said crude oil supplies fell less than expected last week while demand for gasoline dropped nearly 2 percent.Retail gas prices slipped slightly for a second day, a sign that falling demand may...

Oil prices fluctuated Wednesday after the Energy Department offered a mixed picture of the nation’s oil and fuel inventories.Retail gas prices slid slightly for a second day, a sign that falling demand may be affecting prices and that gas...

The U.S. government is not doing enough to buy uranium and plutonium on the black market and keep it out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and rogue states, the Energy Department’s top intelligence official said Monday.”We must take...

Oil prices soared Wednesday as the dollar fell and the Energy Department said oil inventories fell much more than expected last week. At the pump, gas prices rose to a new record over $4.05 a gallon.The department’s Energy Information...

The Energy Department says motorists can expect gasoline prices to remain close to $4 a gallon through next year.Oil prices should remain well above $100 a barrel through 2009, says Guy Caruso, head of the department’s Energy...

Oil prices fell Tuesday, giving up an earlier advance as the dollar held its gains against the euro and the Energy Department slashed its oil consumption projections. Retail gasoline prices rose to a new record over $4.04 a gallon.The dollar rose...

Russia has shut down the second of its three plutonium-producing reactors as part of a nuclear nonproliferation program with the United States, the Energy Department said.The remaining reactor at the once-closed city of Seversk in south-central...