President's Obama's State of the Union promise to open more offshore oil and gas fields and support natural gas development lacks one ingredient if the public is to receive the full economic benefits:

It is information.

Oil, gas and mining development on U.S. public lands provides the...

Amid a continuing conflict and a debate over policy approaches in Afghanistan, another less visible but equally critical struggle is underway: the effort by Afghan authorities to create proper governance for the lucrative mining sector expected to emerge, eventually, from a more stable country.

"Follow the money" has become shorthand for rooting out corruption in politics and the corporate world, but this week the U.S. Congress showed that following oil money isn't just a way to lay blame; it also is a tool to lay the foundations for a responsible oil, gas and mining...

Despite a nine-year conflict and the current military surge by the U.S. and NATO, Afghanistan has taken foundational steps since 2009 to turn its mineral and hydrocarbon resources into sustainable national wealth, adopting a new hydrocarbons law and formally agreeing to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency...

As the House Natural Resources Committee began its own hearings this week on the regulation of the oil and mining industry, more improprieties surfaced at the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, this time in Louisiana, where regulators apparently accepted gifts and trips from industry representatives and...

Oil industry disasters like the BP spill capture the media's attention and the public conscience with images of tarred shores and reckless practices, but the Gulf of Mexico crisis also reveals a deeper danger to our safety and energy security -- and the urgent need for greater transparency...