The president advises the nuclear energy industry to get lost
Feb 19, 2010
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there,” the Cheshire Cat said in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The inscrutable feline might have been referring to the tortuous path of U.S. nuclear energy policy over the [...]

Posted 02/16/2010 05:58 PM ET

Energy: A new study shows that our reluctance to develop domestic energy will cost the beleaguered U.S. economy trillions in opportunity costs, reduce our gross domestic product and increase our trade deficit.
From trying to stimulate jobs in nonexistent ZIP codes at great expense to worshiping the false gods of climate change, [...]

Feb 11, 2010
By Claude Sandroff
Economically sensible states including Texas, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania are developing their enormous, non-traditional, “tight” natural gas reserves. In the process, they are transforming America’s energy profile for the next half-century in the face of a federal government indifferent at best to this energy revolution.
 
In Texas, drillers have become so adept at [...]

By SHANNON L. GOESSLINGPosted 02/10/2010 07:08 PM ET

That the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are on the wrong climate path is the understatement of the decade.
Recent disclosures through ClimateGate, an EPA whistle-blower and a daily barrage of scientific data call into question every assumption of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

Posted 02/08/2010 06:54 PM ET

Energy: The administration asked for public comments on a plan to expand offshore drilling. When they came in 2-to-1 in favor, the Interior Department sat on the news. Time for a “Texas tea” party?
When you ask for public comment on a major policy issue, at some point you should make the [...]

Feb 4, 2010
By Ed Lasky
We have the power to tap vast shale gas reserves that lie under our feet through large swaths of America, but special interest groups aligned with the Democratic Party are trying to frustrate plans to bring this cheap, plentiful, and clean energy to the surface. Who are the irresponsible parties?

A primer [...]

Posted 01/28/2010 07:01 PM ET

Joint Session: Wednesday night’s State of the Union address to Congress may have made history. When have senators and congressmen ever before been unable to keep from laughing at — not with — a president?
At about the 44-minute mark in President Obama’s address to Congress came a proposal for a three-year [...]

Jan 28, 2010
By Alan Boyle
Experiments at the National Ignition Facility have given researchers confidence that they’ll achieve a milestone in nuclear fusion sometime this year.
The tests involved blasting a cylinder the size of a pencil eraser, known as a “hohlraum,” with 192 laser beams and seeing whether researchers could tweak the energy to create the right [...]

Posted 01/26/2010 07:10 PM ET
Energy: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday that his agency would look into drilling for oil in the Atlantic soon. It sounds good. But a glimpse at the strategy suggests Salazar’s real aim is to block drilling.
Ordinarily, even a little motion from federal bureaucrats to open America’s offshore to domestic drilling [...]

 
By Jackson Diehl
Monday, January 25, 2010
 

While the world has been preoccupied with the crisis in Haiti, Latin America has quietly passed through a tipping point in the ideological conflict that has polarized the region — and paralyzed U.S. diplomacy — for most of the past decade.

The result boils down to this: Hugo Chávez’s “socialism for [...]