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From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of – EPA? If sending Marines, Navy Seals, and Delta force to the world's trouble spots... Read More
Noted developments, good and mostly bad, in the past year's energy sector. Read More
President-elect Donald Trump's energy agenda is shaping up to be a years-long effort to undo President Obama's policies. Supporters of... Read More
With Donald Trump set to enter the White House in January and populists on the march across Europe, political risk will loom large in 2017.... Read More
Bionic leaves, a hot solar cell, and other picks for the most notable renewable energy strides in 2016. Read More
As we write this editorial on Thursday afternoon, nuclear power is providing 61.2% of Ontario's electricity needs. Read More
Yep, there's another thing to worry about. Read More
The study looked at nine different shale basins, “the most comprehensive assessment to date,” according to the authors, and... Read More
A 2015 study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and IBM found that more accurate day-ahead predictions of solar energy generation... Read More
KAYENTA, Ariz. — The world's largest coal company, Peabody Energy, is seeking federal approval to expand its mine on Navajo and Hopi... Read More
A lot happened in the energy sector in 2016. Here are some of the biggest energy stories of the year. Read More
With the rise of the far right, transitioning away from coal may prove difficult. Read More
One-quarter to two-thirds of all U.S. nuclear plant reactors are at-risk of being closed prematurely, according to a new analysis by... Read More
Ritterbusch & Associates sees a high probability that U.S. shale oil production will cause the OPEC agreement to break apart as early as... Read More
Under Rex Tillerson, Exxon doubled down on the dirtiest oil on Earth, sending Canada's emissions soaring. ExxonMobil placed a risky bet on... Read More
In 2016, the industry's best year ever, a new solar project was installed every 84 seconds. Read More
U.S. natural gas prices are on track to cap their biggest fourth-quarter rally in 16 years, and traders are betting they have further to... Read More
No U.S. president has ever overturned a prior monument, but conservatives will fight tooth and nail to make that happen. Read More
As 2016 fades away, a new year approaches with a new set of unknowns for the evolving energy sector. A variety of different assets are coming... Read More
CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. Read More
The site allows you to interactively customize the graphs to your own needs: You can select one or more energy sources or switch between... Read More
China expects coal output and demand to increase by 2020 even as it aims to cut 800 million tonnes of outdated capacity as the world's... Read More
Solar permits for the first 11 months of the year were also down 32% from the same period in 2015. Read More
Toshiba Corp. lost a fifth of its market value Wednesday after the Japanese conglomerate warned it might have to take a multibillion-dollar... Read More
Before I committed to the Nissan Leaf, I test drove many EVs with Zach, whose boundless energy for fitting as much as humanly possible into... Read More
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The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution. It all started in the 1980s with an independent company founded by the late George... Read More
Also last month the sun was relatively inactive. The observed sunspot number (SSN) was 44.7, which was just 64% of what is the average for... Read More
The variability and trend in global precipitable water vapor (PWV) from 1979 to 2014 are analyzed using the PWV datasets from the ERA-Interim... Read More
One of the key characteristics of complex systems, such as the world’s energy and transport sectors, is that when they change it tends... Read More
The geopolitics of energy is playing a growing role in American foreign policy. As the United States ushers in a new president who has... Read More
In this latest episode of the Columbia Energy Exchange, host Bill Loveless sits down with one of our Fellows at the Center on Global Energy... Read More
The political debate over U.S. energy policy has grown more polarized in recent years, making consensus difficult to reach and leaving the... Read More
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When former Texas governor Rick Perry ran for president in 2012, he promised he'd abolish the U.S. Department of Energy (at least when he... Read More
Environmentalists are decrying President-elect Donald Trump's selections of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)... Read More
President-Elect Trump's choice of Rick Perry to run the Department of Energy is good news for people who believe–or want to... Read More
The power sector is similar to geology in the sense that change must often be measured over long periods of time in order to see significant... Read More
Senate Democrats are asking President-elect Donald Trump's pick for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to explain his ties... Read More
It may be time for a baby boom in U.S. oil. Read More
U.S. shale drillers are set to ramp up spending on exploration and production next year as recovering oil prices prompt banks to extend... Read More
Oil prices are up on expectations that OPEC will contribute to a faster balancing in 2017, with up to 1.8 million barrels per day in cuts... Read More
At first glance, Mohammed bin Salman, Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and Elon Musk, clean-tech mogul and budding red-planet pioneer,... Read More
One year ago, 195 countries agreed a pact to limit global warming. Read More
A conservative think tank says lawmakers should consider ending taxes on corporations and instead institute a fee on carbon dioxide emissions. Read More
The last time anyone in Iceland tried to drill this deep they ran into trouble. Read More
Investors appear to be increasingly confident that OPEC is going to live up to its word. Professional money managers have trimmed bearish... Read More
Elon Musk is hoping to change the world through transportation, space travel, and, sustainability. And he has had a pretty good year. Read More
For the first time, unsubsidized solar power is the cheapest form of new electricity, with solar power projects costing less than other forms... Read More
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The president-elect will likely start rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and... Read More
Shale oil companies are ready to play chicken with supply and demand again. Read More
The group of young people suing the federal government for failing to protect their constitutional right to a stable climate is seeking... Read More
Earlier this year, a group of attorneys general embarked upon a highly publicized effort to prosecute ExxonMobil under the same legal theory Read More
Saudi Aramco is Saudi Arabia's crown jewel. Read More
A massive vessel, the first ever classified as a "very large ethane carrier," began shipping ethane from a Houston terminal last week en... Read More
New recommendations will help companies to predict the impact of climate change on their finances – and give us more firepower to... Read More
U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions totaled 2,530 million metric tons in the first six months of 2016. Read More
The letter by attorneys general from New York, California, and other liberal states sets the stage for one of the biggest environmental... Read More
Towards eliminating multi-decadal natural oscillations in determination of the Transient Climate Response (TCR) to CO2. Read More
