Unlocking "unconventional" energy requires unconventional politics, and that's one resource that is genuinely scarce among today's backwards-looking bureaucrats and green interest groups.

Under pressure from environmentalists, the coal industry and its supporters are claiming that their fuel can be clean.

President Obama’s all-of-the-above strategy isn’t a policy change, it’s just a lie.

The average American would believe that the nation's need for substantial nuclear fuel, oil, natural gas, and coal will soon be a distant memory, based on the Obama administration's strident emphasis on developing "alternative" energy sources. The reality, however, is quite different.

What is the outlook for renewable energy in electricity generation--particularly wind and solar power--as a substitute for such conventional fuels as coal and natural gas?

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

There are new twists to in the ever-entertaining faux debate over the dangers of shale gas. The New York Times, which turned obscure Cornell University marine ecologist Robert Howarth into an anti-fracking rock star in its questionable spring series on shale gas, and got hammered for it by its own public editor—I‘ll take some of the credit—is finally getting on the science bandwagon.

Urgent action by theSecurities and Exchange Commission is necessary if the United States is to retain its preeminence in the financial world.