Energy

Link Between Fracking and Earthquakes Remains Tenuous, Say Experts

Getting an agenda ahead of the evidence when it comes to fracking and earthquakes appears to be par for the course. ...

Bob Adelmann July 11, 2014

Russian Malware Infecting U.S. Energy Grid

Bob Adelmann July 2, 2014

Russia's "Energetic Bear" cyber-terrorists have successfully infected much of America's power grid. ...

White House Solar Project Doesn’t Stand Up to Light of Day

Michael Tennant May 15, 2014

The Obama administration is being very secretive about its installation of solar panels on the White House, perhaps because they're expensive and ineffective....

The Good News About Fukushima

Rebecca Terrell April 3, 2014

Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged in 2011 by a record-breaking earthquake and tsunami, is the subject of much controversy related to...

Thanks to Fracking, U.S. Will Pass Saudi Arabia In Oil Production

Warren Mass March 12, 2014

Thanks to the success of U.S. oil companies engaged in hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” — a process used to extract oil trapped in...

U.S. Navy Sailors Sue Over Low-dose Radiation

Rebecca Terrell February 27, 2014

U.S. Navy sailors are suing the Fukushima utility TEPCO for exposing them to nuclear radiation during Operation Tomodachi, the humanitarian mission to aid...

A Real Turn-off: Last Phase of Light Bulb Ban Takes Effect Jan. 1

Michael Tennant December 20, 2013

Beginning January 1, the manufacture and importation of Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb will essentially be banned in the United States under a...

What Happens Without Coal

Ed Hiserodt December 16, 2013

It you think that wind and solar electrical power generation can replace all of the electricity now being produced via coal-fired plants, think...

U.S. Oil Output to Double Every Three Years, Unless “They” Get Their Way

Bob Adelmann October 15, 2013

The one thing threatening America's resurgent oil and gas industry is the cabal of internationalists working behind their most popular tool, the "useful...

Energy Stakeholders Contest EPA Power Regulations

Rebecca Terrell September 21, 2013

Energy industry leaders plan the Southeast Powering Our Future Forum in reaction to Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan, unveiled Friday by the Environmental...

Obama EPA War on Coal to Shut 200+ Coal-Fired Plants, Devastate Economy

William F. Jasper August 9, 2013

EPA regulations are set to kill jobs, send electricity rates through the roof, and make the United States more susceptible to brownouts and...

George Mitchell, the Father of Fracking, Dead at 94

Bob Adelmann July 29, 2013

The supreme irony is that George Mitchell's discovery of "fracking" (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from shale) that unleashed...

Despite Federal Study, Fracing (“Fracking”) Safety Still in Dispute

Rebecca Terrell July 22, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory finds that chemicals used in oil and natural gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing or "fracing"...