Editor's Perspective

European response to Australia’s abandonment of a carbon tax illuminates the impossibly narrow margin of political acceptability within which governments must work as they try to rearrange climate.

If it were an oil producer, the US federal government would look much like Mexico, with output declining while adjacent areas boom.

Ominous poll results bespeak collapse in the stature of a US president consistently hostile to oil and gas.

When governments meddle in energy markets, strange things happen—such as an appearance by Al Gore with a coal magnate at a press conference announcing opposition to carbon taxation.

Continuation of disruption to Iraq underscores how readily observers in the West underestimate factionalism, in its various dimensions, as a force in the Middle East.

The jihadist blitz of Iraq should quash whatever misapprehension remains that production growth in North America greatly lowers the importance of the Persian Gulf to oil markets.

Architects of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants have no intention of stopping with coal.

Three misconceptions make US officials reluctant to allow the export of crude oil.

In high-level fights over political spending, more is at stake for the oil and gas industry than tiresome hypocrisy.

About all anyone outside the US Environmental Protection Agency knows about proposed rules due soon that might restructure power generation in America is that they’ll arrive on time.

An Executive Branch campaign against fossil energy applies different tactics to specific fuels.

Another quarter, another storm of regulation. Another storm of regulation, another quarter of economic drift.

Economic wounds self-inflicted in service to energy fashion have helped push Canada toward uncharacteristic instability.

From a master of high-minded muddle-headedness on energy comes, well, more high-minded muddle-headedness on energy.

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.