A new report suggests that fresh sources of oil in North America will loosen the global oil market. Will we stay addicted to …
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Inside Win: A Non-Profit Site Wins a Pulitzer for Its Environmental Reporting
A scrappy indie website from Brooklyn wins a Pulitzer for its dogged reporting on a forgotten oil spill.
State Dept: Build the Keystone Pipeline or Not, the Oil Sands Crude Will Flow
A report from the State Department concludes that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline will have little impact on carbon emissions. That will make environmentalists battle to fight the pipeline that much tougher.
Pipeline Politics: Backgrounding Keystone XL
Why has a single pipeline project gotten so much attention from the right and the left? TIME explains.
A Rig Accident off Alaska Shows the Dangers of Extreme Energy
A drilling rig runs aground off the Alaska coast, underscoring the dangers of Arctic drilling
BP’s Settlement Is Only the Beginning of the End of the Gulf Oil Spill
The U.S. Will Be an Oil Giant Again. But It Won’t Be Energy Independent
The IEA predicts that the U.S. will soon become the world’s biggest supplier of crude, thanks to a homegrown boom in production from shale oil. But while more domestic production will help the economy, it won’t ensure that the …
How Countries Like Iraq—Not the U.S.—Will Help Determine Gas Prices to Come
The Presidential candidates love to talk about increasing oil production here in the U.S. But a new report from the International Energy Agency underscores the fact that it will be foreign countries like Iraq that will continue …
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Why Romney’s Energy Independence Pledge Is Half-Baked
Mitt Romney promises to make the U.S. energy independent by 2020 by increasing domestic oil and gas production. But without dealing with consumption, he’s only tackling half the problem.
