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.
New attempts to moderate energy-price movement with controls on commodity trading might, like much regulation of markets, yield unsavory surprises.
Americans correctly sense that their stylish and articulate president has been railroading them—and not just on health care.
The US Federal Trade Commission’s rule prohibiting oil-market manipulation culminates a witch hunt in a land of no witches.
When oil-company profits surged last year, Congress staged a two-ring circus. So what happens now that profits are crashing?
Fiscal distress is nudging California toward a measured embrace of—gasp!—oil and gas development.
The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience.
Global economic recovery has to start sometime. Now seems like as good a time as any.
Beware the government asserting principle but needing money.
