The latest updates on energy and environment news, analysis and opinion covering energy policy and its impact on resources and climate.
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
The United States has been the dominant player in the shale revolution until now, but new estimates of the world's potential shale resources show that Russia, China and developing countries such as Argentina and Algeria could be the biggest winners in the future. Published June 11, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Participating in a Google+ conversation on Tuesday, Al Gore accused the Koch brothers of being "purveyors of the dirtiest energy on earth," Newsbusters first reported. Published June 12, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans a $19.5 billion outlay in his final six months in office to ensure the city never again has to suffer the devastating effects of a major hurricane. Published June 12, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Senate is moving to make metal theft a federal crime, with the Judiciary Committee poised to take action later this week on a bill that would impose a 10-year prison sentence on anyone caught stealing metal from telephone or cell towers, highway equipment or other critical infrastructure. Published June 11, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Ex-energy secretary Steven Chu praised Solyndra-style loans in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, saying "if you look at what got started" the bankrupt energy firm was successful. Published June 11, 2013
By Martin Griffith - Associated Press
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday. Published June 10, 2013
By Edward Felker - Washington Guardian
Energy Department officials and employees routinely seek paid internships for their children and relatives despite internal warnings against nepotism, the agency's internal watchdog reported Monday. Published June 10, 2013
By Annie Yu - The Washington Times
While residents up and down the East Coast are cringing at the onset of the cicada invasion, a few savvy entrepreneurs and businesses are coming up with creative ways to celebrate — and profit from — the rare mass reappearance of the noisy bugs, hawking everything from themed jewelry to teriyaki-grilled cicadas. Published June 4, 2013
By Charles Hurt
The EPA is really scary and litigious and vindictive and, we now know, hates humans. Humans are, after all, the problem. The whole problem. The only problem. Published June 4, 2013
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Richard Windsor never existed at the EPA, but the agency awarded the fictional staffer’s email account certificates proving he had mastered all of the agency’s technology training — including declaring him a “scholar of ethical behavior,” according to documents disclosed late last week. Published June 2, 2013
By David Koenig - Associated Press
The CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. says that there's no quick replacement for oil and that sharply cutting oil's use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would make it harder to lift 2 billion people out of poverty. Published May 29, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, has requested the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a California utility company and discern whether executives lied to federal regulators about a recent radiation leak. Published May 28, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Lawmakers in Illinois could sign off on legalizing fracking as early as this week, but approval of the highly controversial drilling method won't come without a fight. Published May 28, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Two California lawmakers tired of seeing beaches littered with plastic bottles and bags are casting blame on private companies and bringing forth a bill that would make manufacturers responsible for the mess. Published May 24, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
In a key development that will help the U.S. export its vast energy resources, the Department of Energy on Friday approved an application for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Texas. Published May 17, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
On a party-line vote, a key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a significant step forward for the controversial nominee and one that ends, at least temporarily, a bitter fight between Republicans and Democrats. Published May 16, 2013
By Associated Press
BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls spurious compensation claims stemming from the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Published May 16, 2013
By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Gina McCarthy's already bumpy road to becoming Environmental Protection Agency administrator took another detour Thursday morning when Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote on her nomination, blocking it for now. Published May 9, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The Prince of Wales issued a scathing denouncement of corporations and of climate-change skeptics for failing to take environmental actions to save the "dying patient," planet Earth. Published May 9, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A new law proposed by the European Commission is being criticized as a massive government overreach that will ultimately damage the farming industry, and lead to the outlaw of certain types of seeds. Published May 8, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Just in time for the cooler spring that has swept the nation — complete with unseasonal snow in the Rockies region — scientists with the University of Manchester said pollution actually brings on climate cooling, not warming. Published May 6, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Mark Zuckerberg has made millions of friends, but the Facebook founder's first foray into the political policy arena is quickly earning him some enemies. Published May 2, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
General Motors called for the White House to ratchet up regulations to rein in climate change, saying new global laws would be good for all business. Published May 2, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Failing to address climate change could drive women into prostitution, said 13 House Democrats who signed a resolution saying women are affected more negatively than men by the dramatic weather shifts. Published April 30, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Former Obama administration green czar Van Jones took to Twitter on Monday to tout his arrest for a courthouse protest against Big Coal — the arrest he asked police to make. Published April 30, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
After a 16-month investigation, state regulators Monday said that natural gas fracking, contrary to highly publicized claims, isn't to blame for high methane levels in three families' drinking water in a northern Pennsylvania town. Published April 29, 2013
By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times
Oil companies from China, Norway, Japan and other nations are investing billions of dollars in U.S. shale projects so they can learn how to extract oil and gas from bedrock and use those technologies to tap into the large and mostly undeveloped shale deposits outside the U.S. Published April 28, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A senator in New Jersey wants to recoup revenues lost from gas taxes on electric car drivers with a new fee that would charge them by the mile for their travels. Published April 26, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry vowed during Earth Day remarks to deal with climate change, one of the world's foremost "clear and present danger[s]." Published April 23, 2013
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
While the North Korean issue has dominated headlines around Secretary of State John F. Kerry's visit with Chinese leaders Saturday, the two nations quietly joined in a forward-leaning "joint statement" calling for more action by global leaders to get tough in response to "climate change." Published April 13, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
With the Environmental Protection Agency set to play the central role in President Obama's second-term climate change agenda, would-be agency chief Gina McCarthy on Thursday tried to calm Republican fears that she would continue the perceived "war on coal" and other harsh regulations under her predecessor. Published April 11, 2013
By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times
Say you were a politician and there was a clean and abundant domestic energy source -- one that has the potential to create jobs and revitalize local economies. Would you do more to encourage it? Published February 19, 2013
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
Energy is the key to America's economic future. In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promised to fundamentally transform the nation into one increasingly dependent on sunshine and breezes to power the economy. Published February 14, 2013
By Tom Harris
In his inaugural address last week, President Obama demonstrated that he is putting people at risk with misguided climate and energy policies. Published January 30, 2013
By David Holt
There is an energy revolution under way in the United States. Booming oil and natural gas production is transforming our economic outlook, ushering newfound wealth to our rural areas and providing high-paying jobs for middle-class workers across the country. Published January 23, 2013
By Joy Overbeck
Matt Damon wanted to do a hit piece on fracking, the process by which natural gas is extracted from shale deposits deep in the ground. Published January 4, 2013
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times
If you don't have the facts on your side, make some up. That's Hollywood's typical scheme for pushing its left-wing views on American audiences. Published January 1, 2013
Actor Robert Redford once played a reporter who took on the White House in the 1970s — now, he's challenging President Obama to thwart climate change. Published June 11 2013
By Sean Lengell
Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma scoffed at suggestions by some liberals that climate change is partly to blame for the deadly tornadoes that tore through his state last week, saying they "do a great disservice to those who have experienced this tragedy." Published May 28 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
Republicans say they're opposed to Gina McCarthy's bid to lead the Environmental Protection Agency because she's withholding key information. Sen. Barbara Boxer sees a more sinister motivation. Published May 15 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
After Senate Republicans last week blocked a vote on Gina McCarthy's nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Democrats plan to try again Thursday. Published May 13 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
If you believe in man-made climate change — and think the nation's unemployment rate truly has fallen to 7.5 percent — then Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has a bridge to sell you. Published May 7 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
After a steep decline during the darkest years of the Great Recession, Americans' fears about global warming are growing, a new poll finds. Published April 8 2013
An unusually chilly March day and the snowstorm it spawned have shut down much of official Washington on Wednesday — including a hearing House Republicans had called to examine global warming. Published March 6 2013
By Ben Wolfgang
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper went to unusually great lengths to learn firsthand the strides the oil and gas industry has made to minimize environmental harm from fracking. Published February 12 2013
By Dave Boyer
Following up on his inaugural address, Mr. Obama devoted a lengthy passage of his speech to his intention to combat climate change, asking Congress to pursue a "bipartisan, market-based solution" and threatening executive action if it did not. Published February 12 2013
