Editor's Perspective

Political conflict over hydraulic fracturing turns on a semantic point crucial but perhaps not evident to the oil and gas industry.

As Congress begins its latest effort to choreograph energy choice, Americans should lock their cash drawers.

Perils linked to Iran are escalating so rapidly that an observer needs a scorecard to gauge market effects.

Because the world needs renewable energy, renewable energy needs a new lifecycle.

If US elections in 2012 amounted only to a contest between envy and oil, President Barack Obama would win 4 more years in office.

So far, oil and gas companies have been strangely absent from Democratic Party explanations for why the congressional super committee failed.

National obsessions blocking work vital to US energy supply apply just as logically to struggles against crime on the US-Mexico border. It’s just a matter of spreading fear.

By definition, only one item in a list of bad attributes can be the worst. Much about a setback to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is bad. So what’s the worst?

As the US switches off Daylight Saving Time, Americans should wonder why Congress in 2005 didn’t just fiddle with clocks and call it a day.

Part of Europe’s attempt to keep Greece out of bankruptcy employs an ingenious arbitrage of weather.

Eternal truths about the oil market often die young. One of the market’s currently eternal truths holds that a wide spread between the prices of Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude oil won’t last.

In its quest to lead the world toward green energy, the UK government is pushing energy consumers rapidly toward fuel poverty by its own definition.

Through how many circles will the US run while chasing its tail on energy?

Heartburn over an inspector general’s report at the US Environmental Protection Agency underscores determination of a rogue agency to regulate.

Russia’s undulating tax regime for oil and gas companies is expected to change again Oct. 1.