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  • Forty Years After Opec Embargo, U.s. is Energy Giant

    Forty years ago this month, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an embargo on oil exports to the U.S. as retaliation for its support of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.

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  • The Epa’s Carbon-capture Delusion

    On Friday, the EPA finally unveiled its long-awaited rules for new coal-fired power plants. The agency’s administrator, Gina McCarthy, has claimed that the new rules “will provide certainty for the future of new coal.”

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  • Four Numbers Say Wind and Solar Can’t Save Climate

    This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will begin releasing its fifth assessment report. Like earlier reports, it will undoubtedly lead to more calls to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide worldwide.

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  • Shale, the Friend Obama Spurns

    No president in modern American history has bashed the oil and gas industry more than Barack Obama. And none has benefited from that industry more.

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  • Keeping the Poor in the Dark

    Keep the poor in the dark: That’s the aim of some of the world’s biggest and most influential environmental groups.

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  • Green Dreams in America, Coal in Africa

    Africans can burn coal. Americans can’t. That’s the conclusion to be drawn from the Obama administration’s most recent forays into energy policy.

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  • The Coal Train Chugs Along

    The gulf between the hard realities of the global energy market and the Obama administration’s energy policies grows wider by the day.

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  • Big Wind Slapps Critic

    The Goliath of the wind-energy business is suing David. The defendant is Esther Wrightman, an activist and mother of two from the tiny town of Kerwood, Ontario, which sits roughly halfway between Detroit and Toronto.

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  • Navy Captain Guns Down Biofuels

    The U.S. military’s expensive experiments with biofuels – along with the rationale for entire biofuels business — has been gunned down in a fusillade of friendly fire.

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  • The Latest Wind-energy Outrage

    The wording of the Eagle Protection Act could not be any clearer. It “prohibits anyone, without a permit issued by the Secretary of the Interior,” from “taking” bald or golden eagles.

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