On Friday, Congress agreed to extend, for several years, a suite of tax credit subsidies designed to support the development of U.S. renewables projects. Given the current political climate in Washington, D.C., this was a big win for the renewable energy sector. Over the...

In many of the world’s large oil-producing and consuming countries, the government subsidizes the consumption of fossil fuels—particularly petroleum products used for cooking, driving, and heating.

On Tuesday, the city of Beijing issued the “red alert” over air pollution levels in the country’s capital. The highest level of air quality alert came as the United Nations climate talks entered the second week in Paris, where the Chinese government...

For the next two weeks, parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be gathered in Paris for the 21^st Conference of Parties (COP) to negotiate an agreement designed to coordinate global action on climate change post-2020. The...

Economic sanctions have become the tool of choice for American foreign policy.

The world relies heavily on fossil fuels to meet its energy needs, and the development and trade of those fuels has influenced relationships among countries throughout modern history.

Countries and companies of all sizes continue to adjust to the new economic and market realities following the oil price collapse of 2014.

These days, prognostications about the future of coal abound—ranging widely on the spectrum from optimistic to bleak. The diversity of opinions stem in part from the evidence, which supports predictions at both ends of the spectrum and a host of views in between....

Today President Obama, after seven long years of study and deliberation, rejected TransCanada’s request for a Presidential Permit for its Keystone XL pipeline – a 1,179 mile pipeline designed to bring up to 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian oil to an...

Last Wednesday, the House of Representatives adopted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Early Friday morning, the Senate followed suit. Passage of the measure generates revenue to allow an increase in the debt ceiling (to next March) and fund the federal budget through...

Many in the international community see Myanmar as a new economic frontier as the country has opened to the outside world and started to implement political and economic reforms after decades of isolation and military rule.

This week, Xi Jinping made his first visit to the United Kingdom as the president of the People's Republic of China. Both governments hope that the visit will inaugurate a “golden era” of trade relations. President Xi’s visit highlights the budding...