
Russia will break ground on two new nuclear power plants in Iran next week, adding to Iran’s nuclear capacity, officials said, after a deal was signed last year in Moscow by the countries’ state-run atomic agencies.
by Jordan Schachtel23 Dec 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

Turkish media outlets have reported that a Russian warship fired at a Turkish fishing boat because the boat interrupted the ship attempting to hijack Ukrainian oil platforms.
by Mary Chastain16 Dec 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

A senior U.S. Treasury official claimed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and clients in Turkey are a few who purchase oil from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
by Mary Chastain11 Dec 2015, 8:00 PM PST0

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his country that Turkey could face more sanctions as a consequence for its forces shooting down a Russian warplane over Syria on November 24.
by Mary Chastain5 Dec 2015, 12:27 PM PST0

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now claims he possesses evidence that Russia purchased oil from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). His accusations come a day after the Russian government said it had proof Erdoğan’s family benefits from ISIS oil.
by Mary Chastain3 Dec 2015, 11:10 AM PST0

Actor James Cromwell was one of two people escorted from an upstate New York business event for protesting an award given to an energy company.
by Breitbart News3 Dec 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced its Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to cut the national average of 32 percent of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 from power plants’ 2005 levels.
by Justin Haskins & H. Sterling Burnett2 Nov 2015, 5:06 AM PST0

WASHINGTON D.C.—Former top Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jean-Louis Warnholz are quietly cashing in on State Department intelligence that Clinton received from her adviser Sidney Blumenthal about an energy crisis in Africa.
by Patrick Howley1 Nov 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) criticized the Obama administration for “repeatedly” denying “Alaska’s best opportunities to produce energy for our nation and the world” and expanding EPA regulations Saturday’s GOP Weekly Address. Transcript (via ABC News Radio) as Follows: “Hi, I’m
by Ian Hanchett31 Oct 2015, 5:34 AM PST0

Chevron plans to cut up to 7,000 jobs for the next two years due to low oil prices. Capital and exploratory projects will be delayed as well.
by Mary Chastain30 Oct 2015, 10:46 AM PST0

When the Mexican government announced the deregulation of its energy sector, many in the industry anticipated a rush to exploit Mexico’s rich hydrocarbon and gas deposits. People living in the Mexican energy boomtown in the Juárez Valley southeast of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, allege that land speculators preparing for the start of oil and gas production have spurred a land grab that has forced what some claim is an exodus of local residents.
by Sylvia Longmire27 Oct 2015, 6:49 AM PST0

From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.
by Chriss W. Street21 Sep 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

SIMI VALLEY — Retired neurosurgeon and presidential candidate Ben Carson responded to California Gov. Jerry Brown over climate change in the spin room at the GOP debate Wednesday night.
by Adelle Nazarian17 Sep 2015, 2:59 PM PST0

Michigan’s Alpena Biorefinery announced that it is taking a “sabbatical,” after drinking $22 million of taxpayers’ stimulus cash and after consuming unknown amounts of additional and indirect taxpayer funding—all just to show it could convert wood chips into pure alcohol.
by Chriss W. Street6 Sep 2015, 8:47 PM PST0

President Obama is not alone in wielding governmental power to clamp down on carbon-emitting energy. While he weaponizes the Environmental Protection Agency to take on coal-powered energy, potentially shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, Alberta’s new socialist NDP government is pushing ostensibly environmentally-minded policies against oil on shared premises of combating “climate change.”
by Robert Kraychik20 Aug 2015, 6:53 AM PST0

South Carolina Senator and Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham stated that when he debates Hillary Clinton on climate change “we won’t be debating about the science, we’ll be debating about the solutions” at Thursday’s GOP presidential debate. Graham, when asked
by Ian Hanchett6 Aug 2015, 2:52 PM PST0

The Clinton campaign’s newly announced “ambitious renewable energy plans” move far beyond Obama’s highly criticized efforts that have increased costs and jeopardized reliability. But they appease environmental activists and wealthy donors.
by Marita Noon4 Aug 2015, 6:43 AM PST0

On Tuesday, the White House announced a new plan to subsidize the expansion of solar panels for low-income homes in Baltimore.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jul 2015, 2:34 PM PST0

Vladimir Putin is reportedly reaching out to Greek leaders to try to affect the outcome of the recent crisis. On Sunday, Greek voters once again defied European leaders and voted against approving new austerity measures.
by Michael Lucchese6 Jul 2015, 9:52 PM PST0

“One would not say that it is even rational, never mind ‘appropriate,’ to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits,” writes Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority that included Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
by Steve Milloy29 Jun 2015, 9:35 AM PST0

New polling emphasizes that support for traditional energy concerns has become a partisan issue. Large majorities of Republicans favor key energy issues—but voters of every ideological stripe say energy issues will be an important part of their voting decisions.
by Marita Noon15 Jun 2015, 10:18 PM PST0

Russian President Vladimir Putin used his trip to Italy to attempt to persuade Italian officials to end the sanctions against his country, which he claims hurt Italian businesses. He also snuggled close with disgraced politician Silvio Berlusconi.
by Mary Chastain11 Jun 2015, 9:47 AM PST0

The global shock from the release of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) long-postponed draft report stating that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has not had a “widespread, systemic impact on drinking waste” caused “cheap” natural gas prices to collapse another 16 percent.
by Chriss W. Street9 Jun 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

A consumer protection bill authored by Senator Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) is designed to eliminate catastrophic weather lawsuit abuse, while ensuring homeowners receive claims payments from insurers that are both fair and timely.
by Lana Shadwick19 May 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

I’m running for president because Washington is lost at sea. The “gods of green energy” have had their glory days, and it’s time we restore America’s security and prosperity and refuel America’s future with common sense.
by Gov. Mike Huckabee12 May 2015, 8:13 AM PST0