Australia officially axed its carbon tax, to the delight of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his party, and the chagrin of environmentalists.

Japanese regulators declared one of the country’s nuclear facilities ready for a restart, the first such preliminary approval since the 2011 Fukushima disaster. Still, questions remain over the safety of siting nuclear power plants in the island nation.

American oil production is booming, thanks to shale, and this new supply is helping to offset disruptions abroad. Fracking is averting an international oil crisis.

Favorable weather should lead to a “big surge” in production from North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation. This is the energy revolution that keeps on giving.

Madrid is set to permit exploratory well drilling for what looks to be a very promising offshore oil play off the coast of the tourist-magnet Canary Islands. Economic and energy security concerns are winning out over environmental wishes.

Finland has a plan for an app that would incorporate taxis, bicycles, buses, driverless cars, and even ferries into a single user experience that could do away with the need to own your own car.

A major energy executive warned that Europe can expect a rough winter, as its Russian gas supplies will likely be siphoned off as they transit Ukraine.

Libyan oil output is slowly recovering, but supply risks abound there and in Iraq, as well. Things would be a lot worse without America’s shale revolution.

A recent UN conference produced a number of different plans for tackling climate change, with a special focus on leveraging the increasing pace of technological progress to effect change. This is the kind of green thinking we’d like to see more of.

Germany’s Environment Minister told reporters recently that “there will be no fracking for economic purposes in Germany in the near future,” despite some hopes that a de facto moratorium on the controversial drilling process was coming to a close.