Marita Noon

What are the Republicans thinking? Coming right out of the gate, at the start of the new GOP-controlled Congress, they began talking about increasing the gasoline tax.

The unity march following the brutal attacks in Paris containing forty world leaders but no U.S. leaders sparked a question: “How has the state of our union gone from being the shining city on the hill to a country whose light has dimmed?”

Cape Wind, touted as “America’s first offshore wind project,” became one of America’s most high-profile and controversial wind-energy projects. Fourteen years in the making, estimated at $2.6 billion for 130 turbines, covering 25 square miles in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Massachusetts, the Cape Wind project has yet to install one turbine—let alone produce any electricity. Now, it may be “dead in the water.”

By introducing a series of regulations—at least nine in total, according to the Wall Street Journal—that will put the brakes on the US energy boom through higher operating costs and fewer incentives to drill on public lands.

We all expect to pay a price for missing deadlines—fail to pay a ticket on time, and you may find a warrant out for your arrest. But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can apparently miss deadlines with impunity.

Under a Republican-controlled Congress there will be changes in Washington, DC—with energy policy front and center. The past six years have seen taxpayer dollars poured into green-energy projects that have embarrassed the administration and promoted teppan-style renewables that chop-up and

The recent drop in gasoline prices down to a national average of $3 a gallon puzzles in the wake of years of rising costs for consumers. In the midst of another election cycle, the Saudis once again appear to be

Santa Barbara County, California, residents vote November 4 on Measure P, a ballot initiative to ban “fracking,” a drilling technique, there.  Sponsoring the initiative is a local environmentalist group, Santa Barbara County Water Guardians, but critics are warning it could have

“When the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (DSL) was being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),” Chris Bryan, agency spokesman for the Texas Comptroller, told me, “significant parts of the Texas economy were placed at risk.” On September 30,

“Extremist voices and groups have hijacked Islam and misappropriated the right to speak on its behalf,” Iyad Ameen Madani, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, told the 25th Session of the Arab Summit earlier this year. Surely sincere