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From The GWPF Matt Ridley, The Times The liberalised energy markets introduced by Nigel Lawson in 1982, embraced by the Blair government and emulated across Europe, delivered both affordability and reliability...

U.S. evolves into coal, gas and oil global energy giant supplying world’s hungry energy markets David Middleton’s excellent WUWT article addressing the resurgence of the American coal industry as well as the growing...

Clean energy is increasingly providing work for people across the United States, contrary to what the president might think, and a new Sierra Club report reveals just how much of an impact on the economy it has made...

What if fossil fuels could be burned without pouring emissions into the air? Many people consider that idea to be wishful thinking, but chemical engineer Rodney Allam doesn't...

The G7 hammered one more nail in the fossil fuel industry's coffin. As many countries pursue clean energy technology and progress towards renewable energy, G7 leaders wrote in a joint declaration of their determination to...

The Top Ten solar companies don’t pay any dividends

Last year a working paper led by retired NASA scientist James Hansen incited controversy, and today the final version of the research is stirring debate once again...

Economists and molecular bioscientists from Australia teamed up to make drastic suggestions for how we can fight climate change. They published a model in Plos One that revealed the 2°C temperature limit will likely arrive...

What if our carbon emissions could actually minimize our carbon footprint? Chemical engineers from MIT have made an exciting discovery that could change the way we approach emissions: they’ve figured out how to transform...

In our quest to replace fossil fuels with solar power, we have to first fix the solar cell, which typically stops working at temperatures above 100°C...

Just when you thought coal was going completely out of style, Australia has given approval for one of the world’s largest coal mines. According to the BBC, a court temporarily blocked the project back in August due to environmental...

About two weeks after Barack Obama gave Shell the green light to drill for oil in Arctic waters off the Alaska Coast, the president is embarking on an ironic three-day visit to Alaska aimed at highlighting the drastic effects...

The Niger Delta has seen oil spills before, with leaky oil pipes being a regular event. However, local fisherman were shocked at the scale of the latest spill from Shell's facility at Bonny Island in Nigeria, which has poured into...

Alaska oil pipeline / Shutterstock Shell's incoming CEO Ben van Beurden recently announced that a court ruling has placed "significant obstacles" in the way of oil exploitation in Alaska...

Department of Energy scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say they’ve reduced nature's million year process of turning algae into crude oil to one than takes less than an hour...