New research out of MIT suggests a new, more efficient, and potentially more cost-effective method for harnessing the sun’s energy.

The EPA is pushing the deadline for refiners to comply with last year’s biofuel targets back even further. This is bureaucracy as its worst.

Two proposed LNG export facilities—one in Oregon and one in Texas—received federal approval this week, a sign of shale’s transformational power.

Russia’s over-reliance on oil and gas exports for its budget revenues makes it vulnerable to the ups and downs of energy markets.

India recently dropped a disputed claim to waters along its border with Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal. Both countries hope that resolving the dispute will jump-start oil and gas development in the region.

Poland wants to frack, but Mother Nature isn’t complying. Warsaw is one of the few in Europe to see the value of shale, but technical difficulties and a byzantine regulatory environment have scuppered its ambitions thus far.

The U.S. and Europe have finally imposed sanctions against Russian energy interests, a measure Europe has been especially hesitant to take over energy security concerns. Policymakers hope that by targeting high-tech shale segments of the industry, the West can dim Russia’s energy future without endangering Europe’s present.

A tanker loaded with Kurdish crude is floating far enough off the coast of Galveston to be outside the jurisdiction of the Texas court that ordered its cargo seized yesterday.

The UK treats wood-burning—or “biomass” as it likes to call it—as a green energy source. But while wood may be renewable, the biomass subsidy scheme Britain has set up is by no means earth-friendly.

A Texas judge ordered the seizure of Iraqi Kurdistan crude from a tanker positioned off the coast of Galveston today, dealing a blow to the KRG’s independence ambitions.