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• 03/16/2001 -- NO SNOW? BLAME IT ON GLOBAL WARMING
  Mayor Richard Bowe of Bryam Township, NJ, has a complaint with an analog in the politics of global warming.
• 03/09/2001 -- A GREENWARD LURCH ON FARM POLICY
  An outbreak of livestock sickness in Europe has unleashed retrograde political impulses not far removed from energy.
• 03/02/2001 -- ANOTHER CONSPIRACY PROBE TURNS UP NOTHING
  Ho-hum. Another conspiracy hunt. Another empty bag.
• 02/23/2001 -- OF WHITE HOUSE FURNITURE AND DIESEL SULFUR
  An industry group is trying to fix part of the mess former President Bill Clinton made on his way out of office.
• 02/16/2001 -- WHO'S IGNORING CLIMATE CHANGE?
  A problem with the politics of climate change is that discussion of the issue too frequently degrades into a righteousness contest. What the issue most needs, however, is a careful examination of the very complex and still uncertain set of facts underlying the issue-and thoughtful discourse.
• 02/09/2001 -- WHAT THE PHILLIPS-TOSCO DEAL SAYS ABOUT US REFINING
  Analysis of Phillips Petroleum Co.'s agreement to acquire of Tosco Corp. has tended to take the perspective of investors. While there's nothing wrong with that, the deal is just as interesting from the point of view of other US refiners.
• 02/02/2001 -- SIBLING CONFLICT OVER OFFSHORE LEASING
  Sibling rivalry at the top levels of government in the US will shine useful national light on the issue of offshore oil and gas leasing.
• 01/26/2001 -- EUROPE NOT COWED BY CALIFORNIA'S CRISIS
  California's crisis notwithstanding, energy deregulation is alive and well in Europe.
• 01/19/2001 -- SULFUR REGULATIONS BLAMED FOR REFINERY SHUTDOWN
  Excessively aggressive environmental regulation took another bite out of US energy security on Jan. 17.
• 01/12/2001 -- ANWR LEASING A LANDMINE WAITING FOR BUSH
  At first glance it seems incongruous: an outgoing President, grandstanding for posterity, first locking development out of one third of the national forest area of the US then declining to permanently declare an arctic wildlife refuge off limits.
• 01/05/2001 -- FORGET BIPARTISANSHIP; LET THE FIGHT BEGIN
  Somehow, the US must survive all the nonsense plaguing the nation's capital about bipartisanship. Nature hates bipartisanship.