Editor's Perspective

A question larger than who wins elections in the world’s fourth-ranked oil-consuming country is how much difference the outcome might make.

Misconception common in US government decision-making about energy received full exposure Apr. 3 in the Senate Finance Committee.

As the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change takes shape, observers might crave a simple way to make sense of the findings.

Environmental activism has produced a new pearl of provocative meaninglessness: “fracked gas.”

The US natural gas industry should remind House Republicans that geopolitical power works best in silence, that bluster dissipates influence.

Industrial Europe has challenged Environmental Europe over the price of reengineering energy use in deference to climate.

When a top official of the US government disparages opponents in an aggressive talk about an important subject, he ought to have his facts straight. In a Feb. 16 diatribe on climate change in Jakarta, Sec. of State John Kerry didn’t bother.

Recent price history weakens an argument against easing US restriction of the export of crude oil.

Now that the US State Department has determined completion of the Keystone XL pipeline wouldn’t aggravate climate change, the president logically and at last will approve the border crossing—won’t he?

Refusal by global-warming activists to address core issues has gone from tiresome to annoying. President Barack Obama committed the dodge in his State of the Union address on Jan. 28 when he declared, “Climate change is a fact.”

A court decision jeopardizing oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska represents a triumph of environmental obstructionism—but not of management of the Outer Continental Shelf.

Friendship with the United States, as several friends of the US are learning the hard way, doesn’t mean what it once did.

Just to be safe, a person might think it prudent to quit using antibacterial soap.

To the looming unavailability in the US of incandescent light bulbs, responders logically cluster into four categories.

The eternal drama about natural gas for Europe from suppliers to the east played on multiple stages the week of Dec. 16.

The budget compromise fashioned quietly by politically opposed House and Senate leaders could have meant trouble for the US oil and gas industry.

You know defenders of the indefensible have nothing left when they resort to populist smear.

While signing a tentative agreement to moderate nuclear development hardly makes Iran a beacon of geopolitical goodwill, speculation is hard to resist.

The chairman of the US Senate Committee on Finance proposes generally righteous tax reform that would specifically hurt oil and gas producers and refiners.