Energy Policy

Hopes of defanging Moscow through alternative energy have faded.

In virtually every country that has closed nuclear plants, clean electricity has been replaced with dirty power.

Those who see India as a climate boogeyman are holding it to a standard they would never apply to themselves.

Cheap pricing and too much coal are leaving Chinese in the dark.

Europe has itself to blame for shortages and spiking prices, but Washington is copying many of its policies.

With China out, there’s little investment left for global coal projects.

One part Brexit and one part coronavirus have derailed Britain’s transportation system—and given the government a huge headache.

Climate change and the policies to curb it lie behind skyrocketing gas, coal, and electricity prices in Europe and Asia.

Tokyo’s long-standing, quiet diplomacy has built trust Washington lacks.

Opaque practices make it difficult to trace human rights abuses.

But Volodymyr Zelensky is irked with the Biden administration over its acquiescence in Russia’s big pipeline.

Despair elides the progress made over the last two decades.

Kyiv feels let down by supposed allies in Berlin and Washington.

And here’s why that’s a national security issue.

His support for the pipeline abandoned a bipartisan consensus, got nothing in return, and made the world less secure.

The old trade order has gone out the window at breathtaking speed. What comes next is very slippery.