What happens when an economist, a hydrologist, an activist, and a CEO sit down to talk about the country's most controversial form of energy extraction?
How do Pennsylvanians feel about the hydraulic fracturing happening literally in their backyards?
For better or worse, hydraulic fracturing wells are springing up across the country, with uncertain social and environmental effects. Here's how one researcher thinks we can make fracking safer.
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in transmission.
With 130 million people in need of power (but 80% of the population against nuclear power), should Japan end the moratorium currently keeping 54 nuclear reactors closed? You tell us....
On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, kicking off a long summer of videos of crude gushing into the sea. Two years later, the offshore oil business is booming, and conventional wisdom has it that the Gulf has fully recovered from the disaster. Not so fast, says Sandy Aylesworth, in an in-depth investigative report.