Many of President Obama’s supporters expected quick action against coal, especially given his past comments and the tenor of...

Crude oil futures rose Wednesday thanks to stronger equity markets and ahead of U.S. inventory data,

Given the drumbeat of gloomy economic news, apparently the...

Anybody expecting a detailed blueprint from Senator Barbara Boxer for Congressional action on climate change will be disappointed.

The chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, and one of the key figures in shaping congressional climate policy this term, just...

Saudis like to say that the stone age didn’t end for a lack of stones. But could a lack of lithium end the electric car age before it begins?

“Peak lithium” is back in focus, as the New York Times looks...

Crude oil futures rose slightly on signs that big OPEC members are continuing to cut oil production,

The public relations firm Waggener Edstrom released a survey of investors and analysts yesterday seeking opinions on what was in store for alternative energy for 2009 (link to the survey at the end of this article). Of the 81 respondents, 47 were...

Crude oil futures slumped toward $40 a barrel ahead of what’s expected to be gloomy U.S. manufacturing data, giving even more fodder to bears worried about a prolonged downturn...

Late Saturday night, the threat of a strike shutting down a good portion of U.S. refineries subsided.

A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC said negotiations were continuing and that the United Steelworkers had agreed to “extend the existing contract given that negotiations...

by John Petersen

America’s love affair with the automobile has always been based on the freedom of the road and the ability to hop in the car and drive wherever we want to go; be it to the corner store to buy a loaf of bread or out to the lake for a long weekend. Even...

Kris Maher reports:

By Friday early evening, contract talks between Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the United Steelworkers appeared to slow over healthcare and safety issues, increasing the possibility that 24,000 oil refinery workers nationwide could strike Sunday.

Sooner or later, even if Al Gore’s left town, Congress will get around to drafting a climate bill. The problem is that the kind of measures that might make a climate bill pass muster at home could end up sinking it internationally.

That’s the conclusion of a new paper,

How desperate are oil bulls for anything that could send the price of crude higher?

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported the country’s worst economic growth numbers in 25 years—and crude oil futures...

Could hybrids provide a way out of the energy and environmental dilemma?

Not hybrid cars—but hybrid power plants that tack on renewable enery like solar power to existing fossil-fuel power plants. The “hybrid solar” idea got fresh legs this week, when the Electric Power Research Institute...

Big Oil is starting to feel the pinch from lower oil prices.

Crude oil futures inched upward toward $42 amid signs the oil market is giving OPEC “the benefit of the doubt” about production cuts,

Although the writing has been on the wall for some time now regarding Obama's willingness to move aggressively on the environment file, few expected his first substantive move to have to do with vehicle

Ben Casselman reports:

It’s snowing in the north, icing in the south, and cold just about everywhere, but natural gas—the fuel most of those chilly residents are using to heat their homes—is still cheap....

Oil prices may be headed lower, but are prices at the pump set to shoot back up?

That’s a possibility if the U.S. Steelworkers Union makes good on threats to launch a nationwide strike that could affect as much as...