Russians financed the anti-fracking movement in the United States, an American oil tycoon alleged today during the Forbes Reinventing America Summit in Chicago.
"Russia's spent a great deal of money over here to cause a panic in the United States…
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People have learned to cope with change by thinking it's not all bad, but climate change is all bad, according to a climate scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who says it's time to replace the term climate change, itself a replacement for…
Worrying about methane hydrates warming the atmosphere is like worrying about your house burning down after it's been leveled by a hurricane, according to an expert scientist with the Department of Energy.
Methane hydrates—natural gas molecules…
Saudi Arabia and OPEC may have dropped oil prices to stifle production in the U.S. and other competing nations, but they didn't drop it enough to stifle the U.S. oil and gas boom from fracking, a senior expert with McKinsey and Company said in…
While cheap natural gas and oil is drawing petrochemical companies back to the United States, companies that produce consumer goods are unlikely to follow because of high labor costs, a partner with the strategy and management consulting firm AT…
Dow Chemical is investing $6 billion to enlarge its manufacturing facilities in the United States by 40 percent, based on a wager that low natural gas prices here will persist into the middle of the next decade, a Dow executive said in Chicago this…
Scientists who worked on the National Research Council's new report on climate intervention want us to understand that they think geoengineering is a terrible idea, but they think it's crucial that we study it.
The scientists think it's a bad idea to…
The Paris Climate Conference this December will not produce an agreement that is "environmentally optimal," according to the member of parliament who served as India's chief negotiator at the 2009 conference in Copenhagen.
But Paris will serve as a…
The developing world will rapidly increase its use of electricity in the next 15 years, and coal remains the most likely fuel to power that growth, despite carbon emissions, according to a panel of world leaders in climate policy and economics.
"In…
The Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan will make money for most electric utilities and their investors, who may be "laughing all the way to the bank," according to a report Morningtar just released to institutional investors.
Even…
