Editor's Perspective

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.

The Canadian government is attacking assumptions driving a European plan to discourage the use of fuels made from bitumen.

An energy-cost squeeze might coax Europe back toward the supplier of natural gas from which it has been trying to turn away.

A furious controversy over stumbling health-care law provides useful context for assessment of an earlier meddling by the US government in economic behavior.

A political conservative leveraging shrill argumentation on a judgmental view of substance abusers would be censured for insensitivity.

Political forces are aligning in Canada toward a vital debottlenecking of the oil sands.

A country eager to develop renewable energy can accommodate ambition to economics without abandoning its environmental principles. Sometimes, suggests a study by IHS, moderation is enough.