Imagine 20 percent of your income going to damages from climate change, because that's the level of cost the poorest American counties could face by the end of this century, according to a study published today in the Journal Science.
Those…
2017
The benefits of fracking far outweigh its costs not only economically, but environmentally, a Stanford University geophysicist said Friday.
After teaching geophysics at Stanford for 30 years Mark Zoback took the helm of Stanford's new Natural Gas…
Global coal production is down record amounts thanks largely to China, BP's chief economist said Thursday, and coal's probably not coming back.
"I think we are seeing a significant and decisive shift in coal, a break from the past in terms of coal,"…
You've heard about the earthquakes, the controversial claims of flammable tap water, the potential contamination of streams, lakes and drinking water aquifers, but the system that's supposed to pay for these calamities may itself be a pending…
At the turn of the millenium, Michael Polsky had made a fortune building companies that generated energy from fossil fuels, namely InDeck Energy Services on the East Coast and SkyGen Energy in the Midwest, which he sold to Calpine Corp. in 2000 for…
Oil prices may rise or fall in the short-term, but they will return to a range of $55 to $65 in the long term because that's the price of oil from fracking shale wells, the Goldman Sachs head of research said in Chicago Wednesday.
Oil prices today…
The Environmental Protection Agency no longer features a climate-change section on its main website, but the scrubbed pages are available from several sources.
Some individual pages are still available via EPA's search engine, but they may yet vanish…
President Trump is unlikely to succeed in reversing climate and energy policies he has targeted by executive order, according to a Congressional Research Service legal brief released this week, at least in part because of his own language.
In a March…
Renewables could provide nearly all the power in some regions in less than 20 years, reliably, and at a cost competitive with fossil fuels, according to a report released today by the Energy Transitions Commission.
The report's striking confidence in…
American electric companies are keeping a close watch on President Trump's unraveling of Obama Administration climate and clean-energy policies, but they do not appear to be changing course because of it.
Utilities are holding fast to a clean-energy…
