Jigar Shah

I just read, "How Brazil is Making an Example of Chevron" in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Compared to the BP Oil spill in the Gulf, which spewed 50 million barrels of oil wreaking havoc on the environment, Chevron reacted quickly to an oil spill mitigating environmental damage. The spill...

In the upcoming presidential election, we are embarking on the wrong energy conversation.

But, before I start, let me say that everyone including the 1 percent and 99 percent should be in favor of getting mature, highly profitable industries off of welfare.

Mitt Romney does not address subsidies for energy...

Last year, Bill Gates noted in an interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal that technologies like solar photovoltaics and LED lights were "cute" but could never deal with the bigger issue of climate change and powering the developing world.

And, this week, writer Marc Gunther...

On Tuesday, President Obama addressed the nation to lay out a blueprint for an American economy that's built to last.

The president promises to address the following:
• American manufacturing -- with more good jobs and more products stamped with Made in America.
• American energy -- fueled...

On December 12th, Canada said it would become the first country to excuse itself from the Kyoto Protocol. What they really should have said is that Canada decided to double down on its investment in tar sands. According to the government of Alberta "Royalties from the oil sands...

A Bloomberg story recently appeared entitled, "Biggest Find in Decades Becomes $39 Billion Cautionary Tale," by Nariman Gizitdinov.

The core of the article is that after 11 years, the biggest anticipated oil discovery, located on a man made island, Kashagan, 44 miles off the Kazakhstan coast, ever...

In August, environmentalists Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen partnered with climate deniers at the Heritage Foundation to produce the non-partisan Green Scissors report which outlines wasteful government subsidies totaling $380 billion over the next five years.

Separately, in August, the twelve members of the Congressional...

When Steve Jobs founded Apple, he began a relentless pursuit to improve the consumer experience.

The computer then was daunting to the consumer -- untouchable.

By making the consumer experience everything, he opened access to a new world.

From there, he opened access to unlimited entertainment and content right at...

Last week, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posted an essay by Princeton professor Robert Socolow entitled "Wedges Reaffirmed." In it, Socolow declared, "humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical and industrial know-how to solve the climate and carbon problem for the next half century."

Whether you are for ending our dependence on oil, individual freedom from monopolies and the government, job creation, safe water supplies, commodity price stability, or human health protection the answer leads to the same set of innovations and business models. 



To achieve any of these goals, my friend Jeremy...

I recently read a fascinating book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. In it, the authors take the view that if the duopoly government of Republicans and Democrats were to get out of the way,...

Socially responsible investments might be emotionally compelling investments, but do they necessarily have compelling financial returns?

The term "Impact Investing" has taken on many meanings in the past few years. I want to end the confusion and underscore that impact investing must by definition deliver impactful and compelling financial returns.

While I commend the Obama administration and 13 automakers for boosting the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) of cars and light-duty trucks sold in the United States to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, it is only a baby step toward solving our real problem: oil addiction.

Although President Obama...