Energy - The New American

Wind Turbines & “Green” Subsidies Under Fire

Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called “green-energy” industry, almost 15,000 windmills — maybe more — have been left to rot...

Alex Newman November 30, 2011

Gaming the System in Clean Energy Development

Bob Adelmann November 15, 2011

The increase in federal subsidies for clean energy development from $17 billion in 2007 to $37 billion in 2010 has resulted in a...

The Oil Map of the World Is Shifting to the West

Bob Adelmann November 1, 2011

Writing in the Washington Post on Friday, Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (which was adapted...

New Geothermal Map May Give False Impression

Rebecca Terrell October 27, 2011

Researchers claim to have discovered vast untapped oceans of geothermal energy they say could replace coal and other so-called fossil fuels as primary...

Firewater and Other Urban Fracing Legends

Rebecca Terrell October 13, 2011

A Colorado landowner ignites his cigarette lighter and holds it close to tap water running from a faucet in his home. A few...

Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline

Brian Koenig October 12, 2011

Political contention over TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline is rife with rhetoric and claims of environmental apocalypse, as the paperwork for the proposed 1,700-mile...

Obama Administration Still Sold on Solar Power

Bruce Walker September 24, 2011

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an AP interview on September 21 that the Obama administration will continue to support solar power. He...

Obama’s Commerce Secretary Nominee Calls for Carbon Tax

Rebecca Terrell August 12, 2011

Should energy consumers pay extra taxes to fund government-mandated and subsidized renewable energy technologies? "Absolutely yes," says John Bryson, President Obama's nominee for...

Democrats Work to Expand Natural-gas Drilling Regulations

Rebecca Terrell August 10, 2011

Democrats on Capitol Hill are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redefine "diesel fuel" so it can expand regulations in natural-gas...

Nixing Nuclear Threatens Bayer’s Future in Germany

Rebecca Terrell August 9, 2011

Rising energy prices in Germany are forcing the pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer to threaten a move to China. The culprit is Germany's...

Natural Gas — Yours for the Fracing

Ed Hiserodt June 10, 2011

At first glance the concepts of horizontal drilling for oil and natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, a method of extracting oil and gas...

Natural Gas — the Coming Shale Gale

Ed Hiserodt June 9, 2011

“The oil and natural gas we rely on for 75 percent of our energy are running out,” warned the President in a televised...

Germany to Abandon Use of Nuclear Power

James Heiser June 2, 2011

The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in the aftermath of the magnitude 9 earthquake on March 11 has had aftershocks of its...

Unleashing Our Energy Resources

William F. Jasper May 25, 2011

John Felmy is chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API), responsible for overseeing the organization’s economic, statistical, and policy analysis. He has...