Energy and Geopolitics
America Sits Atop the Global Hydrocarbon Throne for 5th Straight Year

Shale has fundamentally reshaped the American energy landscape—and more importantly, the world’s.

Gassing Up
Qatar Crisis an Opportunity for US LNG

Qatar is the world’s largest LNG exporter, and it’s also the target of an attempt by a group of Arab countries to isolate it over accusations of attempts to destabilize the region. That decision by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Maldives, Yemen, and the UAE to cut diplomatic ties with Qatar is going to make […]

Good Green News
Captured Carbon Is Powering U.S. Oil

It’s an unlikely (but valuable) relationship between clean tech and fossil fuels.

Pipeline Politics
Oil Starts Flowing Through the Dakota Access Pipeline

The pipeline will help ease supply bottlenecks coming out of North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation.

Crude Economics
The First Impact of the Climate Deal Withdrawal

Oil prices fell over expectations of surging U.S. production.

Let's Not Make a Deal
The Sound and Fury of Trump’s Paris Pull Out

What does it signify?

Gazproblems
Gazprom Loses Court Battle With Ukraine

It was a much-needed victory for Kyiv.

Let's (Un?)-Make a Deal
It’s the Eleventh Hour for the Paris Climate Agreement

Reports indicate Trump will pull out of the “treaty.”

Trade War
Will Trump Be Remembered as the Champion of US Solar?

A trade war with China could pique the White House’s interest in the renewable energy source.

Market Failure
Everywhere You Look, Carbon Markets Are a Bust

Economists warn that carbon prices are too low to change behavior.

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