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U.S. Efforts to Cut Emissions Stalled in 2024 as Power Demand Surged

Published: January 9, 2025

After staying flat for nearly two decades, electricity use is starting to rise again, and the boom in wind and solar power hasn’t kept pace. Read More. 

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Libya’s Increased Oil Production Thwarts OPEC’s Reduction Plans

Despite the country’s political instability, its production has grown to 885,000 barrels a day, undercutting OPEC’s efforts to shrink supplies worldwide. Read More

June 20, 2017

Economic Scene: Fisticuffs Over the Route to a Clean-Energy Future

A Stanford professor’s vision of an economy wholly powered by renewable fuels has drawn a heated rebuttal from scholars who question many of its assumptions. Read More

June 20, 2017

Exxon Mobil Lends Its Support to a Carbon Tax Proposal

The company is joining other oil companies and corporate giants to endorse a plan from the Climate Leadership Council to tax fossil fuels and pay the dividends to taxpayers. Read More

June 20, 2017

Both Climate Leader and Oil Giant? A Norwegian Paradox

While Norway wants to wean its own citizens off fossil fuels, it remains one of the world’s biggest petroleum producers and is revving up exports. Read More

June 17, 2017

OPEC Took Aim at U.S. Oil Producers, but Hurt Itself, Too

The Saudi-led cartel thought low prices would squeeze American shale output. Now its effort to reverse course is proving difficult to pull off. Read More

June 15, 2017

Energy Department Closes Office Working on Climate Change Abroad

The elimination of the Office of International Climate and Technology is another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on global warming policy. Read More

June 15, 2017

How Retiring Nuclear Power Plants May Undercut U.S. Climate Goals

The oversupply of natural gas brought by hydraulic fracturing is driving out dirty coal, but it is also threatening zero-emissions nuclear power. Read More

June 14, 2017

Scientists Praise Energy Innovation Office Trump Wants to Shut Down

The National Academy of Sciences said the Energy Department’s advanced research lab, known as ARPA-E, is making vital progress. Read More

June 13, 2017

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