Oil and gas supplies are booming around the world as new drilling technologies make it possible to recover untapped resources.
Today's impasse in energy and cliamte policy in the United States presents an opportunity for presidental leadership as unconventional energy geographies shift to North America.
President Obama must work with private, public, and nongovernmental organization leaders to develop a transparent carbon-pricing structure that advances national energy, economic, and climate security.
The World Energy Outlook provides analysis and insight into global energy markets looking ahead over the next 25 years.
Shale gas can improve China's environment and energy security, but there are many barriers that will hinder China from duplicating America's shale revolution.
It is important to identify solutions to improve efficiency of the coal value chain, from mining and transport to end use, and to reduce coal’s impacts on the environment.
China and the United States account for more than half of the world's coal production and consumption and so have a crucial role to play in putting global energy consumption on a more sustainable path.
Lighter cars, more efficient electricity use, and better integrated smart grids can all help to dramatically reduce global reliance on fossil fuels and demand nothing in the way of intervention on new regulation.
Plug-in electric vehicles stand to both revolutionize American transportation and to have implications for electric utilities, automakers, and the oil and gas industry as well.
The shift from extracting, processing, and consuming conventional fuel sources to unconventional oils carries a host of still unknown consequences for international economics, technology development, and the environment.