Starting Thursday, Beijing’s popular kebab street vendors won’t be allowed to grill their meats outside. This ban reflects growing desperation amongst the Party leadership to address the country’s increasingly serious air pollution problem.

Japan is keen to exploit large reserves of natural gas trapped in “ice cages” along the ocean floor. Its desperation for a new source of energy could drive the next global energy revolution.

Texas’s population and economy are both booming, but its roads and water infrastructure are overburdened by the influx of new residents. For a state with firm small-government convictions, solving this infrastructure problem will be tricky.

The EU’s energy commissioner voiced support for a bloc-wide energy union to negotiate better prices for Russian gas. Such a move would bolster the bloc’s economy, but it would also galvanize the member countries at a time when the EU desperately needs to present a unified front in opposition to Russian aggression.

The massive, recently-opened Ivanpah solar facility in Southern California is attracting birds and burning them to a crisp. Environmentalists take note: every energy source has its costs.

German solar installations dropped 41 percent this year, after Berlin cut its generous subsidies for producers. This isn’t the sign of a competitive energy source.

Three tanker cars carrying crude oil exploded in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia after a derailment along the James River. The accident, the sixth of its kind in the last 10 months, underscores the need for America to build out its pipeline network.

Many of the world’s coastal megacities are sinking into our oceans. In some cases, they are subsiding faster than sea levels are rising—and humans, of course, are at fault.

France is following in Germany’s footsteps by shutting down nuclear reactors and spurring renewable energy production. That plan has been a spectacular failure in Germany, and it won’t work in France either.

One leading climate scientist was so frustrated by the political mangling of the underlying science in a recent IPCC report that he published a letter decrying what he believes may be an “inescapable conflict between scientific integrity and political credibility.” This is why the Global Climate Treaty movement is dead in the water.