Oil Companies Fined for Not Buying Nonexistent Cellulosic Ethanol
In 2007, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). In keeping with Bush’s 2006 State...
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Interior Sec’y Puts 20-year Ban on New Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon
Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar has imposed a 20-year ban on new uranium mining...
Dozens of Power Plants Closing Due to New EPA Rules
Due to new federal air pollution regulations, more than 32 power plants across the...
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N.D. Oil Boom Produces Labor Shortage
The current political debate over “jobs” ignores a vital component of jobs and the...
EPA Regulations Cost Jobs and Cause Blackouts
Reports indicate that the predominant costs of implementing the Environmental Protection Agency’s new "green"...
Wind Turbines & “Green” Subsidies Under Fire
Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called “green-energy” industry, almost 15,000 windmills...
Gaming the System in Clean Energy Development
The increase in federal subsidies for clean energy development from $17 billion in 2007...
The Oil Map of the World Is Shifting to the West
Writing in the Washington Post on Friday, Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: The...
New Geothermal Map May Give False Impression
Researchers claim to have discovered vast untapped oceans of geothermal energy they say could...
Firewater and Other Urban Fracing Legends
A Colorado landowner ignites his cigarette lighter and holds it close to tap water...
Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline
Political contention over TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline is rife with rhetoric and claims of...
Obama Administration Still Sold on Solar Power
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an AP interview on September 21 that the...
Obama’s Commerce Secretary Nominee Calls for Carbon Tax
Should energy consumers pay extra taxes to fund government-mandated and subsidized renewable energy technologies?...
Democrats Work to Expand Natural-gas Drilling Regulations
Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redefine...
Nixing Nuclear Threatens Bayer’s Future in Germany
Rising energy prices in Germany are forcing the pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer to...
Natural Gas — Yours for the Fracing
At first glance the concepts of horizontal drilling for oil and natural gas and...
Natural Gas — the Coming Shale Gale
“The oil and natural gas we rely on for 75 percent of our energy...
Germany to Abandon Use of Nuclear Power
The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9...
Unleashing Our Energy Resources
John Felmy is chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API), responsible for overseeing...
Promoting Pain 
at the Pump
Item: A letter from President Obama to congressional leaders, dated April 26 and posted...