Editor's Perspective

If the US government can’t manage oil and gas royalties taken in kind, how can anyone expect it to handle a shady market for greenhouse-gas emission credits?

The imprudence over which Van Jones lost his job should not divert attention from the conviction that had propelled him into the administration of US President Barack Obama.

The latest failure of liberal employment remedies should encourage the oil and gas industry.

New attempts to moderate energy-price movement with controls on commodity trading might, like much regulation of markets, yield unsavory surprises.

Americans correctly sense that their stylish and articulate president has been railroading them—and not just on health care.

The US Federal Trade Commission’s rule prohibiting oil-market manipulation culminates a witch hunt in a land of no witches.

When oil-company profits surged last year, Congress staged a two-ring circus. So what happens now that profits are crashing?

Fiscal distress is nudging California toward a measured embrace of—gasp!—oil and gas development.

The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience.

Global economic recovery has to start sometime. Now seems like as good a time as any.

Beware the government asserting principle but needing money.

Government is encroaching into private affairs in ways other than the big-headline issues like automaker takeovers and fuel selection. It’s even sneaking up on interstate highways.

For a supposedly clean-burning gasoline additive, ethanol always has carried a full load of environmental compromises.