List of Energy and the Environment articles
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saudi crop Market Body Slams OPEC
Things just aren't going OPEC's way.
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spr crop Trump Wants to Sell Half the U.S. Strategic Oil Reserve For More Cash
The U.S. energy boom means America imports less oil — but is selling emergency stocks a good idea?
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song of fire and ice China Taps Lode of ‘Fire Ice’ in South China Sea
Beijing might have found a long-term solution to its energy problem — and another irritant for an already-tense flashpoint.
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Members of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi (up-R) and head of the Guardian Council, Ahmad Jannati (up-C), attend a session to appoint a new chairman on March 10, 2015 in Tehran. The Assembly of Experts, the clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country's supreme leader, picked the ultraconservative Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi as their new chairman in a surprise appointment. AFP PHOTO / BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) Why Trump’s Iran Sanctions Waiver Should Worry the Mullahs
Trump may not have blown up the Iran nuclear deal just yet, but that doesn't mean he's going soft on Iran.
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oil crop Desperate Saudis, Russians Agree to Extend Oil Production Cuts
OPEC just can’t figure out how to kill the U.S. shale boom.
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Protesters demonstrate against South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria on Nov. 2, 2016. This Is What Happens When a Family of Business Moguls Takes Over a Country
The Gupta family’s shadowy business empire is a symbol of all that’s wrong with South Africa.
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A cargo ship's containers are unloaded in Hong Kong on June 29, 2013. In May 2013, the value of Hong Kong's total exports of goods decreased by one percent whereas the value of imports of goods increased by 1.7 percent over a year earlier, the Census and Statistics Department reported on June 25. AFP PHOTO / Laurent FIEVET (Photo credit should read LAURENT FIEVET/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Administration Cheers ‘Herculean’ Trade Breakthroughs With China
Washington and Beijing are cutting pragmatic deals, but the administration keeps up a harsh tone with allies like Canada, Mexico, and Japan.
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pipeline crop Russia’s Controversial European Gas Project Is Under Fire, Again
Environmental violations thrust Nord Stream 2 and its European partners into an awkward position.
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bannon ivanka In Closed-Door Climate Showdown, It’s Jared and Ivanka vs. Bannon and Pruitt
With Trump threatening to pull the United States out of the Paris accord, moderates and ideologues are at loggerheads.
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iceberg crop This Country Wants to Tow Icebergs From Antarctica to the Middle East
As early as 2018.
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Rolls of wire are seen outside Johnstown Wire Technologies that produces wire and rod primarily for the transportation and construction industries,on September 8, 2016, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The White House race could be decided in the Rust Belt -- a vast, decaying former industrial powerhouse in the US Midwest and Northeast where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are battling for the support of working class white voters. Johnstown, a former steel capital tucked away in a valley, is symbolic of the discontent that exists among the working class towards the Democratic Party. / AFP / DOMINICK REUTER (Photo credit should read DOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Steel Tariffs Are a Surefire Way to Hurt the Rust Belt
Tariffs would raise costs for steel-consuming industries, potentially killing a "massive amount of jobs."
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oil crop Saudi Arabia Now Controls the Largest Oil Refinery in North America
The move is a huge boon to Aramco before a big IPO, experts say.
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nuke crop Brexit Could Nuke Britain’s Nuclear Energy Industry
A new parliamentary report warns of an industry meltdown unless things change.
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A demonstrator holds a banner reading "One climate one world" during a rally held by several Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) to form a human chain on the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on December 12, 2015 on the sidelines of the COP21, the UN conference on global warming. French hosts submit the final version of a global climate-saving pact to negotiators at UN Conference on december 12. The goal is for ministers to approve the agreement by the end of the day but that could be extended one more day. / AFP / FRANCOIS GUILLOT (Photo credit should read FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Environmental Policies Are a Disaster for U.S. Foreign Policy
The Trump administration’s approach to science generally and to climate change in particular has the makings of a foreign-policy disaster.
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us argentina piece The New Jersey Chemical Spill That Could Pollute U.S.-Argentine Relations
Argentina wants a fresh start with Washington. But the legal battle over a polluted New Jersey river could spoil those plans.
