The new year brings no shortage of energy concerns, even though oil prices are much lower than last January. Instead of enumerating those that I think merit particular attention, for today I'd like to focus on an over-arching energy policy choice fac... [more]

by Richard T. Stuebias posted to Huffington PostSandwiched around the election of the first African-American President of the United States, we find the debacles associated with the collapse of the international finance sector and the imminent end of... [more]

By Jim GoodmanWith the arrival of 2009, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. While India supplies Switzerland with 80 percent of its wheat, 350 million Indians are food... [more]

By Joseph RommWhat events, actions, and findings had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming? Since the No. 1 story is way too obvious to generate any dra... [more]

Tomorrow morning, the gym will be quite crowded with new members hoping to start the year off right. It is one of the most common new year's resolutions of all time, and also one that sounds good in theory...but in practice, rarely lives up to expec... [more]

I fear that gross incompetence in our federal and state governments - as well as in some of our major industries - is going to make life much more challenging for our children and grandchildren. The list this year alone is long. The financial sector ... [more]

By Anna Fahey The cost of oil has been a rollercoaster ride since the 1970s. Thankfully, we've hit a low in this season of recession, foreclosures, and a major Wall Street meltdown. But nobody expects the ride to be over -- and the only way to go now... [more]

By Sean CastenSome thoughts as we get closer to a new energy policy. Our total U.S. electric grid has a peak capacity of just over 1,000 GW. (That's 1 billion kilowatts or, if you prefer, enough to power 10 billion hundred-watt light bulbs.) Of ... [more]

Here are a few words from Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase, about U.S. energy policy:Shame on us. This is our third energy crisis. And we still don't have the fortitude as a nation to do anything about it. And we're going to earn a ... [more]

Former Intel CEO Andy Grove's campaign to spur electric retrofits of US vehicles is gathering momentum. In tandem, Grove is advocating that the US rebuild its domestic battery industry. Back in July, Grove authored an article in The American in wh... [more]