Green Dreams
World Woefully Unprepared for Paris Climate Summit

Only 37 of 196 UN member states have submitted required national plans for tackling climate change. What does this say about the global movement?

Shale Still Hale
U.S. Shale Showing Signs of Stabilizing

America’s rig count drop is slowing down, suggesting that the shale industry is adjusting to discount crude prices.

Shorting Out
Electric Cars Running on Empty

President Obama’s lofty electric vehicles goals have been swatted down hard by reality.

Harder Better Faster Stronger
Can Canada’s Oil Sands Adapt to Cheap Crude?

Canada’s oil sands industry has to cut costs to survive today’s bearish crude market. Is it up to the challenge?

Build Me Up Buttercup
Momentum Stalling for Paris Climate Summit

French president Hollande poured cold water over international climate politics in the run-up to December’s historic summit.

Frack Baby Frack
Is Britain Ready to Tackle Shale Now?

David Cameron’s new Conservative government is highly motivated to tap the country’s sizable shale reserves. The timing couldn’t be better.

The Green/Brown Divide
The Problem With Renewables

Energy executives squared off at a Paris meeting this week, and the coal executive may have made the best point.

To Drill or Not To Drill?
Texas Fights Cities for the Right to Frack

Texas made it illegal for local governments to enact fracking bans, but this battle for control over the shale boom is only just beginning.

Wrestling the Bear Market
Crashing Crude Crunches Petrostate Coffers

A bearish crude market has the world’s petrostates nervously inspecting their now rapidly shrinking sovereign wealth funds.

LNG Abounds
American Shale Prepares to Go Global

U.S. shale gas is about to be unleashed on the world, and it’s going to fundamentally change the nature of LNG markets.

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