Editor's Perspective

“Environmentalists don’t want safer shale gas. They want no shale gas.” This statement comes out of the UK, where policies are green, energy costs high and rising, and shale potential rich but mostly untested as the government stews about hydraulic fracturing.

A US carbon tax has fallen subject to preemptive assault in a study released by the George C. Marshall Institute.

Tension is easing on two still-dodgy fronts in a mostly stable country supremely important in the logistics and geopolitics of energy.

The international oil and gas industry escaped a legal hazard on Apr. 17 when the US Supreme Court narrowed the geographic scope of an antique law on civil infractions involving noncitizens.

A pioneer of climate alarm has turned to full-time warfare against fossil energy.

Environmental pressure groups responded predictably to a Mar. 29 pipeline accident in Arkansas, as one of them declared, “With stakes this high, there is no excuse for the White House to approve Keystone XL.”

Reemergence of an erstwhile reformer in a country resistant to reform adds an interesting note to the centrally choreographed politics of Iran.

Another energy bonanza, another international crossfire with hydrocarbons in the middle.

President Barack Obama is late this year with his proposal for the federal budget but made clear Mar. 15 it will contain the same raids on the oil and gas industry as its predecessors.

Message to opponents of US exports of LNG: Price volatility is part of the energy business. Deal with it.

Taking threats seriously about the security implications of automatic spending cuts would be easier if US military leaders always acted serious about security.

Oil and gas provided thick context to a meeting at the White House Feb. 22 between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama.

A dime-a-gallon increase in the price of gasoline since mid-December has captured the attention of news media in the US, but regulations under development that could boost the price by twice that much have escaped notice.

Forecasts of global demand for oil, always sensitive to economic fate, weather, and geopolitical surprise, are especially fragile this year.

President Barack Obama delivered a whopper in a Jan. 14 press conference during which he pressed his campaign to marginalize political opposition.

The oil market faces new instability as the Jan. 10 inauguration approaches of newly reelected but apparently ailing President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.