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Richard T. Stuebi

If nuclear is not to be part of the energy solution of the future, then there will be other costs/risks to bear, some of which could be very dramatic. And here's why.... Read more

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David Thorpe

Here's a question: in which country do you imagine that a police officer might say to a protestor who is trying to prevent an offshore gas/oil drilling exploration, “I have your last breath in my hands”?... Read more

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Lucas Reijnders

We take the green credentials of nano-TiO2 cleaning agents for a test ride and arrive at some surprising results!... Read more

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Geoffrey Styles

Overly-reactive policies focused on the Macondo spill and the political opportunity it presents risk misallocating our priorities and creating a legacy that would make our long-term energy situation even... Read more

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Geoffrey Styles

If the Congress is serious about enhancing United States' energy security, then it should focus its efforts on reining in consumption, rather than erecting further barriers to oil produced internally or... Read more

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Lou Grinzo

Climate scientists under attack from alleged US rightwing elements following the infamous University of East Anglia emails leak.... Read more

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Kurt Cobb

When most people think of fossil fuel supplies, they think in terms of barrels of oil, cubic feet of natural gas and tons of coal. But in evaluating how much energy in the form of finite fossil fuels the... Read more

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Marc Gunther

Do we turn it into cheap sugars that make people fat or use it to produce biofuels that will help reduce the US’s dependence on Middle East oil, improve our balance of payments and create jobs instead... Read more

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Geoffrey Styles

We are already developing advanced biofuels and solar power and rather than arguing about starting out, shouldn't we be asking how much we can do now to accelerate this shift?... Read more

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Chris Nelder

Those who would shut down offshore oil drilling might want to consider this. Over the next 20 years, the only real alternatives to offshore drilling are to become even more dependent on oil imports at... Read more

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Geoffrey Styles

Before America commits to anything beyond the shortest suspension of deepwater drilling, necessary to ensure that the practice can proceed safely, it should clarify what the national energy priorities... Read more

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Neal Dikeman

The US government had zero capability of its own in place to deal with a spill of this magnitude, meaning all of the technical heavy lifting was squarely on BP’s shoulders.... Read more

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Marc Gunther

Not long ago, it would have been unthinkable for a big utility company to encourage homeowners to put solar panels on their roofs. Now, however, all that's changing.... Read more

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