$120 Oil Is Almost Here, and Trump Has Few Good Options
Brent crude nears $120 as escalating Saudi-Houthi tensions fuel another weekly oil price rally, putting fresh pressure on Trump. Friday, October 23, 2026 The slow creep of oil…
World Is on Track for Up to 2.8 Degrees of Warming Despite Clean Energy Boom
The United Nations says that it is now an inevitability that the world will fail to meet the legally binding goals set forth by the Paris climate accord…
Asia Is Building the World’s Next $15 Trillion Energy Market
The global energy transition is increasingly becoming an Asian story, and Asia is unlikely to follow the path envisioned in Washington or Brussels. The region’s governments will have…
Oil Prices Rise Despite Middle East Export Recovery
Reports about recovering oil flows in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea have dominated headlines over the past couple of weeks. Yet oil prices have only moved…
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A New England city was transformed by refugees; now, it faces a youth gun violence crisis: ‘Fear for my life’
LEWISTON, Maine — A New England city transformed by an influx of refugees and immigrants is now grappling with a youth gun…
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U.S. Rig Count Holds Steady as Oil Prices Surge
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States remained unchanged for the second week in…
Trump’s Reverse Nixon Strategy: Bring Russia In, Shut China Out
On October 9, hours after a phone call between President Trump and President Putin, the Treasury Department issued a six-month waiver allowing…
Why Trump and Carney Haven’t Touched Energy in Their Tariff War
The United States and Canada are locked in an energy trade war – sort of. Although United States President Donald Trump and…
NASA’s Freeze-Resistant Moon Battery Could Eventually Reach EVs
The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed a revolutionary new battery that could power the country’s return to…
Electric Giants Say They Already Have the Tools to Fix the AI Power Crunch
The energy demand boom being driven by the artificial intelligence era is placing unprecedented strain on global energy infrastructure. Not only are…
Why Fossil Fuel Demand Can Rise Even as Clean Energy Wins Terrain
French historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz has offered energy-transition skeptics an appealing historical argument. In More and More and More, he argues that humanity…
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