Editor's Perspective

For the oil and gas industry, President Barack Obama’s state of the union speech on Jan. 27 contained one carrot and two heavy sticks.

Live by the subsidy, die by the subsidy. Because a generous tax credit for biodiesel expired at the end of 2009, makers of the fuel fear commercial demise is near.

Because antidevelopment environmentalists know how to manipulate fear, advocates of oil and gas development need to know how to combat it.

If you think stability has returned to the oil market, two Rice University researchers have a message that should slosh your coffee: The crisis isn’t over.

By the time it ended, the Copenhagen climate summit had become farcical enough to obscure an instructive disclosure that emerged in the confab’s early days.

Since the revolution of 1979, Iran’s political mood has cycled several times toward and away from upheaval. Now, the Islamic republic finds itself yet again on the brink.

In the controversy known as "Climategate," responses by chagrined climate activists reveal even more than embarrassing e-mails.

More will be needed if changes in human activity are to influence climate measurably. Recent events show what might be in store.

Everything wrong about debate over climate change congealed in a single sentence at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Nov. 10.

Although one company doesn’t represent a whole industry, a shrink-to-grow strategy adopted by ConocoPhillips illustrates pressures on the biggest operators in a world of shrinking opportunity.

In a simmering US political challenge to the main method for completing gas wells in shale, a secondary issue over proprietary information is starting to dissipate.

Common sense on climate change is pinned down by crossfire among the three branches of US government.

US oil and gas workers have extra reason to find interesting the Congressional Budget Office’s confirmation that cap-and-trade legislation passed by the House of Representatives would diminish employment.

Compromise forming around climate-change legislation in the US Senate promises despair for the oil and gas industry.

Setting offers important context to predictions of near-term gains for recently abysmal gas prices in the US.

A single fact puts Chevron’s legal mess in Ecuador into all the perspective anyone should need.

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.