A Texas energy company wants to interpret a decades-old law to force recalcitrant homeowners to permit drilling for oil and gas. Building a 100 percent community consensus isn’t easy, but it could be worse: few other countries afford landowners the mineral rights Americans enjoy.

Thanks to shale oil and gas, net U.S. energy imports have plummeted since 2006. That’s not only good for America’s economy; it’s good for our foreign policy, to boot.

Food security warnings in a recent IPCC report have the New York Times asking, “Might Thomas Malthus be vindicated in the end?” The newspaper of record seems to have forgotten just how remarkable humanity’s ability to innovate is.

For the first time, natural gas is flowing from an offshore field in China. This will help Beijing meet its ambitious natural gas targets, but it’s also good news for greens.

Kashagan is the world’s largest and most expensive single oil project, and it’s also a complete disaster. Nearly a decade past schedule and $30 billion over budget, the Kazakh field has yet to start yielding the 35 billion barrels of oil it is estimated to contain.

The IPCC’s latest report offers dire warnings about the dangers of climate change—too dire, evidently, for one researcher, who has pulled his name from the report’s summary. His punishment: relegation to climate science’s “fringe.”

Good evening, readers! We trust you’ve enjoyed your weekend, and that you’ve spent some time thinking up suitably devious pranks for Tuesday’s April Fool’s Day. While you gear up for the week ahead, take the time to look back on some of the stories you may have missed over the week behind:

Ebola is as terrifying as it is deadly, and officials have now confirmed its presence in Guinea’s capital of Conakry.

Airbnb is one of many new service providers running afoul of the status quo in blue model cities. The company has dredged up some interesting data in its defense.

Thanks to fracking, the US is now producing more than 10 percent of the world’s supply of oil. More than 40 percent of American crude is fracked, and the rest of the world is miles behind.