President Obama has made green jobs and alternative energy research and development a key fixture of his term. But are these efforts really the right course to stimulate job growth and increase America's energy independence?

With the shale boom radically altering the energy chessboard, panicked ideologues are resorting to a tired ploy: pitting natural gas against alternative sources as if generating energy is a zero-sum game.

An assessment of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's decision to shut down Ontario's four remaining coal power plants.

Politicians are scrambling to find ways to reduce the pain of highenergyprices, but the United States needs to increase its supplies of oil, not demonize oil companies.

The United States needs a serious reassessment of a national energy policy and what energy issues to tackle first, as a transition to a post-fossil fuel world is not in the near future.