By the CNN Wire Staff updated 5:55 AM EST, Fri October 7, 2011   Washington (CNN) — The head of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office has resigned amid a fiscal firestorm over the bankruptcy of a company that received a $535 million federal loan, DOE Secretary Steven Chu said. The loan program’s [...]

During the decade that Al Gore dominated the environmental debate, global carbon-dioxide emissions rose by 28.5%. Oct 6, 2011 WSJ By ROBERT BRYCE Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration to deny a permit for the proposed Keystone XL oil [...]

Energy: Environmentalists are making a last stand against the Keystone XL pipeline with a scare campaign about groundwater. Time to review the facts and let the project proceed. The Obama administration gets a lot wrong, but it does seem to be getting more clear-headed about oil. This week, it announced it was moving ahead with [...]

By Thomas Pyle Published October 03, 2011 FoxNews.com President Obama conjured up his favorite boogeyman recently: the oil and gas industry. He reached for it when he released his job creation and deficit reduction package.  Despite the fact that the oil and gas industry pays over $86 million a day in income taxes, royalties, bonuses [...]

Published October 03, 2011 FoxNews.com Newly released emails show a Democratic donor, as well as officials inside the White House, were expressing concern more than a year ago that now-bankrupt solar firm Solyndra’s financial situation could deteriorate and prove “embarrassing” for the Obama administration.  The emails were released Monday by a Republican-led House panel looking [...]

Oct 3, 2011 Amy Olvier By Amy Oliver Cooke and Michael Sandoval Former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter boasted that Colorado is at the “epicenter of America’s New Energy Economy” and that it would be a “lasting legacy” to our children and all future generations. This past spring, Ritter, now paid $300,000 to direct Colorado State [...]

October 3, 2011 Ed Lasky Here we go again: another gigantic taxpayer-funded loser, courtesy of President Obama’s administration — and this one seems to have helped friends of Harry Reid.  Eric Lipton and Clifford Kraus of the New York Times cover the tale:  In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal [...]

Harold Hamm, discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, on America’s oil future and why OPEC’s days are numbered. Oct 1, 2011 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE Harold Hamm, the Oklahoma-based founder and CEO of Continental Resources, the 14th-largest oil company in America, is a man who thinks big. He came to Washington [...]

Oct 1, 2011 Bill O’Reilly Nobody likes buying oil from OPEC. Nobody likes coal dust dropping from the sky. We all know that pollution is bad, and greedy oil sheiks are not looking out for us. The problem is, we don’t have a realistic alternative fuel option. So we have to live with a bad [...]

Oct 1, 2011 Paul Driessen Hydraulic fracturing sends “huge volumes of toxic fluids” deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims. “Billions of gallons of toxic fluids” will “contaminate” groundwater and drinking water “for generations.” We need to “Ban Fracking Now.” Environmentalists used to support [...]