TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas have killed Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's plans to merge two social services agencies and create an independent energy policy office.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont will lead a nonpartisan association of northeastern states including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia House and Senate passed sweeping energy legislation Tuesday that would overhaul how Virginia's utilities generate electricity and, supporters say, move the state...

TOKYO (AP) — In a story June 7 about Japan's energy policy, The Associated Press referred incorrectly to the plutonium reduction target cited by a policy research group. The target it mentioned...

HALLOWELL, Maine (AP) — The chairman of Maine's Public Utilities Commission has stepped down, leaving empty a seat on the three-person commission at the center of the state's divisive energy...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has tapped a Maine native who spent the last eight years working on climate and energy policy in Massachusetts to serve as her new energy office...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico lawmakers would channel a small portion of state investments specifically toward renewable energy projects under newly proposed legislation.

A House panel on energy policy took up discussion Thursday of a bill from Democratic state Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton to channel 1 percent of a $5 billion trust fund toward investments in solar and wind energy

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on royalties paid by U.S. energy firms for extracting gas from public land (all times local):

5:30 p.m.

A Trump administration panel is recommending a change in the way energy companies calculate how much money they owe taxpayers for pumping natural gas from public lands.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker says he doesn't regret comparing the state's largest energy provider to "terrorists" he'd like to "shoot," despite calls for him to publicly apologize.

Republican Rep. Gary Glenn made the comments toward Consumers Energy last week in reference to a bill he sponsors. The legislation would keep electric costs down for Hemlock Semiconductor and lessen the impact of future residential rate hikes.

The bill passed in the House and is now in the Senate.

BEIJING (AP) — The deputy head of the Chinese Cabinet agency in charge of energy policy for the world's second-largest economy has been dismissed on graft charges, the country's anti-corruption agency said Tuesday.

The probe of Wang Xiaolin, a former longtime executive in the state-owned coal industry, adds to a string of senior officials who have been ensnared in President Xi Jinping's marathon anti-corruption crackdown.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas state senator said Thursday he's resigning from office to take a job with the Trump administration on a board focused on energy issues in the South.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Attorney General's Office and consumer advocates are petitioning state regulators to consider a new energy standard they say would protect utility customers and shareholders from the costs and risks associated with future environmental regulations.

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Minnesota environmental policy professor has been chosen to lead a new Ivy League energy policy center funded by a fossil fuel conglomerate-owning family.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown will travel to China to discuss clean energy policy with international leaders next month, his office announced Friday.

He'll attend an international energy conference in Beijing with delegates from nearly two dozen countries during his visit during the first week of June.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on the Michigan Legislature's final week of voting in the two-year term (all times local):

9:20 p.m.

Michigan lawmakers have adjourned for the day after about 11 hours in session, as talks continue on energy policy and changes to the state's auto insurance system.

MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — Legislation aimed at keeping Exelon's nuclear generating plant near Cordova has passed an Illinois House committee but still is subject to tweaking by groups that want to remake the state's energy policy.

The House Energy Committee approved the bill on a 9-1 vote Wednesday night, according to the Moline Dispatch & Rock Island Argus (http://bit.ly/2goxqsR).

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson agreed when they spoke Monday at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission's annual conference that energy policy needs to be included in the national political debate.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine regulators are proposing changes to an energy policy that lets solar owners receive credits on their utility bill for energy they sell back to the grid.

Critics including GOP Gov. Paul LePage have criticized the policy for selling back electricity at "above-market" rates. On Tuesday, Maine public utility commissioners, all appointed by LePage, appeared to agree that current solar rules are not equitable and don't take into account the market.