The US State Department announced that it won’t make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until it receives the approval of the Nebraskan Public Service Commission. As a result, Democrats won’t face scrutiny on an issue that enrages their base until after the midterm elections.

Poland’s Prime Minister is proposing a European energy union to help counterbalance Russia’s natural gas advantage.

It won’t be a tiger in your tank, it’ll be an alligator, say scientists. Alligator fat makes high-quality biodiesel, so this Earth Day, consider starting your own gator farm.

The shale boom has put a huge amount of crude on our nation’s railroads, and led to a rising number of dangerous derailments, spills, and in some cases, explosions. We should pursue the cheaper and safer option: building out our nation’s pipeline networks.

The EPA reports that U.S. emissions fell by 3.4 percent from 2011 to 2012, and that emissions have dropped a stunning 10 percent since 2005. The chief driver of these emissions reductions: America’s new glut of shale gas.

France’s lower house of parliament adopted a measure this week to ban all kinds of genetically modified corn. This kind of anti-GMO idiocy flies in the face of all the evidence we have on the matter.

A virus with a roughly 50 percent fatality rate has been surging in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in recent weeks. Scientists worry the region is one mutation away from a very scary outbreak.

Google was the second-biggest corporate spender on lobbying in 2012. Big Tech needs Uncle Sam’s help, and Washington needs a happy and vibrant Silicon Valley.

The IPCC has some suggestions for averting disastrous climate change, but rather than propping up current-generation renewables technology, we’d be better off funding the research and development of products capable of competing on their own merit.

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