Democratic Win Set to Reshuffle U.S. Energy Policy

The blue wave in the midterm elections that will put Democrats in charge of the House and Senate could reshape U.S. energy policies. Democrats in charge of both chambers of Congress and its key committees, Democratic governors in key data-center development states such as Ohio, Georgia, and Texas, a Democrat in Georgia’s utilities regulator, and the first Democratic member of the Texas oil regulator since 1990 would seek to stymie the Trump Administration’s pro-fossil fuel and unchecked data center expansion. Investigations into oil…