China grows much of its crops in its driest provinces, according to a new report. That’s a very water-intensive practice, in a country that can’t afford to be profligate with that precious resource.

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office finds that America’s ill-conceived biofuels policy could raise gas prices up to 9 percent by 2017. It’s time to end this boondoggle.

North Dakota is on track to get three new oil pipelines by 2016. Connecting the state’s Bakken shale formation with the country’s pipeline network is vital to the continued success of the shale revolution.

The Commerce Department permitted two companies to start exporting oil from Texas’s Eagle Ford shale formation this week, and the firms could begin sending what is essentially unrefined oil abroad in August, the first time in nearly forty years.

Some Coloradan landowners are upset at recent fracking moratoriums, which are preventing them from cashing in on their mineral rights. Other countries wish they had this problem.

Despite an economic slowdown, Beijing is importing record amounts of crude. It’s aiming to expand its strategic oil reserves in the face of international instability.

Soon, German industry may no longer be exempt from paying green surcharges on electricity bills. Berlin’s green ambitions have saddled its consumers with some of the highest electricity prices in Europe.

India’s Environment Minister recently asserted his country’s “right to grow,” and noted that “net [emissions] may increase.” The developing world’s growth imperative is a dagger in the heart of the Global Climate Treaty movement.

Wholesale electricity prices in the UK are lower than expected, and that’s putting a strain on the country’s ability to subsidize its green energy production.

Germany’s turn towards green energy has, perversely, led to an increased reliance on coal. This policy fiasco is now endangering EU emissions-reduction targets.